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Even after running a print and cut combo for 6 years or so, I could always see the massive benefits of running a seperate cutter. Why have a printer that spends half it’s time not printing? You could be printing and cutting simultaneously

Recently switched from a print and cut machine to a printer and a summa. It was never really a huge problem but near the end of the mimaki’s life we got a job for 32 rolls worth of A5 labels that needed print/cut. Bearing in mind this was a CJV30 so it took about 1 work day to print a roll, then...

Speaking of this. One of our suppliers was raving about direct R2R printable UV magnetic. Gave us a sample roll.. put it in our Colorado and it stuck pretty heavily to the very first part it could. Needless to say we can’t print on it directly from the Colorado. Magnet seems to be pretty...

We generally print everything on high quality (40m2 an hour) so rolls take about an hour and a half give or take but production works too (57/hour). That should do a full 54” roll in about an hour and 10 mins or so. I just keep high quality because it still pumps through rolls and anything...

The speed out those things is ridiculous. I’m still slowly working my way through profiling all our media’s and once everything is all dialled in etc the gamut is HUGE. Done a lime green yesterday that looked like an RGB file! another big factor for us was at high quality it automatically...

+1 for just output to rasterlink and use that as the rip. It’s clunky and takes about 3 steps more for jobs than it should, but it comes with the machine and free(in theory) is always nice

HP probably won’t fix it because he’s using a Roland

Again, have you ever been satisfied with this printers output using that specific rip?

these two statements are pretty contradictory. Either that or you’re familiar with colour management but just don’t apply any of it? As far as the logo goes, it may be the same one you’ve printed for years, but if you’ve recently switched printers and/or rips, it’s highly unlikely you’ll get...

Gonna attempt to describe this so bear with me. Will likely be wrong.. looks like the handles are screwed in then have a cover as the circular bit doesn’t look perfectly flush with the door. If you can get a screwdriver etc into that gap, it might pop out and give you access to the screws...

Time may also vary for different roll widths etc depending on machine. gotta remember those numbers up there are the absolute maximum you can get, likely under controlled factory conditions that will suit the manufacturer. So yours will naturally be lower. I’d do exactly as 2CT says, your...

This is definitely not a data issue. It could be a profile issue on the printer. Or it could be an artwork issue. I’ve had customers supply artworks before that were in jpg and they’ve had some pretty weird embedded profiles. One of our oce machines just wont take customer photos and run...

We use rasterlink 6 and onyx. After using rasterlink 5 for years and recently switching to 6, I actually think they went backwards. The visuals across the whole thing are massively dated and everything seems like it takes 5 steps more than it needs to. even on 5, you just got one little...

We’re getting round to our annual Christmas canvas deal. I’m already awash with 72dpi Facebook photos and random nonsense they’ve been sent via snapchat. All of church they don’t want to tell the other party about so the surprise isn’t ruined. No way to get the originals but I want this 40” by...

Best way to keep an eye over quality control is to do it yourself. Unfortunately that does mean you have to do it yourself lol

What I haven’t really mentioned so far is the feed consistency. With the Colorado you can start printing bang on wherever you want (from about 5mm at the start of a roll). basically, I just measured how much vinyl I need to get a job through the laminator without having to switch back to the...

Even the 500 series latex, and the newer epsons, all appear to be higher level entry machines. Sounds a lot like 2CT needs an actual production machine that can steam through rolls. They’re all the type of machines that you should get your ROI on fairly quickly then end up being relatively...

We can get a 54” roll printed in two hours give or take on high quality on the Colorado. The production mode does it in about an hour and a half and we had a crappy b/w label job once that quality wasn’t an issue and done a full roll in 26 mins. Laughable how quick it was. Summa couldn’t keep up lol

Honestly the Colorado is a true workhorse, we get a great gamut from it and it’s speed is incredible. Just makes me laugh when we use our old mimaki. As far as service goes, we usually get a tech same day, next day at the latest. So there’s been little to no down time. Other than that, other...

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