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Prints from the 1650 laminate beautifully, and it sticks. The way the Colorado prints and cures with separate carriages give the ink time to smooth out and go glossy, unlike traditional UV which cures the ink instantly in little domes of ink which results in a satin/matte textured finish...

Saw the Ricoh L5160 latex/resin when it was first released at a Sydney trade show a few years ago. It was producing impressive prints on SAV (including the white ink) at reasonable speeds. Certainly significantly better results than then current HP 300/500 series, particularly the black. Print...

Oops, typed that wrong. It was a 7.9 metre logo.

As an past owner of 10 Graphtecs, including their very first 500mm wide unit in 1990 through to the FC 8600-160, I call BS. We've been printing and profile cutting from the very first time it was a thing. (and no, we don't use latex). Graphtecs are great cutters for vinyl cut lettering, they...

The polish is actually called "Oce Cleaner A", it's a polish, I have no idea why they call it a cleaner. It's an Oce consumable product - Part number 10070056303 - it comes in a nice box with crappy application cloths. Ask your Canon supplier for it. It's been around longer than the Colorado...

Dip the bristles of a toothbrush in a LITTLE bit of IPA, don't use too much. Keep a tissue on hand in case you get IPA on anything you shouldn't. Gently massage it into the dirty grit rollers with the brush while slowly rotating the rollers with your fingers. By the time you've done a couple...

Howdy Guys, I've had a 1650 for almost 2 years now, I probably don't print anywhere near as much as most of you on it, only about 50 to 100 metres a day. The 2 vinyls we run most that seem to suit the printer and us best are - Oracal 3551 polymeric (High Quality or Superior modes), 3M IJ1810...

You're right, it is just K only in the printhead check, and yes it needs a bit of CMY to get the best result. The point was to compare the 100% K Colorado swatch with the same 100% K print from the Seiko/Oki, it's night and day. Hilariously, here in Australia Canon also sell the OKI M64s in the...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but..... If you have a Seiko/Oki M64s, you will never get close to that Black with your 1650. Seiko/Oki's produce by far the deepest black of any wide format printer, be it solvent, latex, or UV. We got our Colorado 1650 about 14 months ago, but we kept our...

We also run Thrive 19 on our Colorado 1650 and 2 OKI m64s, and cut on a Summa T160. I'd advise profile cutting directly from illustrator or Corel using the Summagaphics plugin. It's so much easier than dicking around through Onyx. You're then cutting directly from the file and program you...

m Maybe. I think it's more likely that Durst don't have any medium/entry level offerings. This way they get ready made product, branded in part with the Durst name without diluting their "high end" image.

Seeing as Durst have a presence here in Australia, we might see these become available here. Durst are remarkable printers but a bit pricey for most of us. The Vanguards look to be affordable, well thought out robust machines. Hopefully the acquisition won't bump the price too much.

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Mr Bear Man is correct. We saw the Kala Mistral being run at a trade show a couple of years ago. After years of dicking around with prints drifting and having to steer anything longer than 3-4 metres through our high-end laminator, I was blown away. Since having it we laminate full 50 metre...

No, we're up with all the dealer "smoke and mirrors". We drove it through Onyx with various profiles, took our own media, and used it ourselves. The ink certainly bites better to cast than calendared, but that's true of every printer process, solvent, latex, or uv. On calendared we did a lot of...

Try again.... Jim are you using the current ink and firmware ? I'm curious because the first versions from last year certainly did what you've shown, but the tests we did ourselves (Oce let us loose on their Colorado for a few hours) were significantly better. With the 3M and Avery cast we used...

Listen to the OKI rep. I don't know about the 'States, but here in Australia the M64s have a 3 year warranty INCLUDING the heads. We've had 8 Seikos over the years (including 2x original Colourpainters, 3x H74s), currently 1x H2104s and 2x M64s. The M64s's have been a revelation; inexpensive...

Firstly, all large fleet graphics need to be able to expand and contract, particularly on aluminium B-Doubles. High / Low ambient temperatures and vehicle load makes a big difference to panel size. The vinyl and ink need to move with it on a continual basis. Secondly, vans aren't flat...