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I prefer cutting stickers on my flatbed Colex, way less dialing in etc compared to roll2roll cutters. Flatbed is good for lower volume, depending on shape can easily cut 5k stickers in a couple hours. If you need consistent 10k+ cut stickers per day then roll2roll is easier/cheaper to scale...
The new solvent epson is using the same $700 head as the Epson resin. These are not disposable heads but they are user replaceable. My guess is that newer manufacturing techniques and design make Epsons newest heads cheaper to make compared to the previous generation.
Looks like epson is...
Mine asks me to replace the filters every 3 months or so, I think it depends on the hours. Kind of ads up, that's almost $2k per year of filters per year
They have built in filters, you can vent or use the filters.
If you dig around in the safety data you'll see it mentioned, very hidden away and in small print that to test for the chemical exposure etc they used a 4 hour per day print time/machine use (which is way under what most are doing...
I was a another shop buying a used piece of equipment and they were UV printing garment DTF, trying to remember the printer brand. I know it was a Chinese machine
Make sure you get the service contract on day one. What they might not tell you is the service contract will cost more if you don't buy on day one and wait for warranty to expire. (the total cost of the service contract will be the same, if you buy on day one that cost will be spread over 5...
UV DTF printers are available
https://www.icolorprint.com/store/no-category/Uninet-3000-UV-DTF-Printer-120v-Includes-Training-Starter-Bundle-1-Yr-Warranty
No, I would like to know what is holding back something like a Canon Colorado from printing DTF? I'm sure someone out there is working on a film/adhesive powder that could make it possible one day
That article is comparing desktop inkjet printers to DTF. Doesn't really get into the technical aspects of why it is not yet possible to do this on wide format printers
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