Hand top HT2512UVR5 Flatbed Printer

[Rob Screeen70]

Hi I am new on the forum and have a question about the printer that operate.
since we started using the printer almost a year now.
Colors keep changing and the printer has to be calibrated again and again.
The company that services our print says that this only has to be don once. ( I doubt that).
De RIP software we run now is SEE GET (considering to change to COLOR GATE).
The printer dos not have a calibration tool like a gretagmacbeth Ione.
The inkt we current use is from Nutec bud these have a short expire date.

Has any one experience whit one of these?

Like to read your advise

Rob

 

[BigfishDM]

Where did you get the machine and what brand is it? You should be having the machine mfg come to your office to support you, or the person you purchased from should be there to support you. If they are not doing that then you should consider getting a different machine that can be supported.

 

[Rob Screeen70]

Hand Top / Sign Racer

This printer is also sold under the brand Sign Racer 2512 led UV.
The printers configuration is CMYKWW (dubbele White print heads) Ricoh gen 5.
The printer is purchased from SignTop in the Netherlands.
their mechanic visits us regularly, bud the down time of the printer is to much.
there advise is now to change from See Get to ColorGate as rip software and to change the inkt from NUtec to ACC.
These changes should give a more stabiele result, and my opinion is that a regular calibration is necessary.

 

[BigfishDM]

This printer is also sold under the brand Sign Racer 2512 led UV.
The printers configuration is CMYKWW (dubbele White print heads) Ricoh gen 5.
The printer is purchased from SignTop in the Netherlands.
their mechanic visits us regularly, bud the down time of the printer is to much.
there advise is now to change from See Get to ColorGate as rip software and to change the inkt from NUtec to ACC.
These changes should give a more stabiele result, and my opinion is that a regular calibration is necessary.

I checked out the machine and they look very nicely built, are they willing to pay for what they are recommending? How long does calibration take and how often are you needing to do it?

 

[Rob Screeen70]

Calibaration

The calibration is don by the service mechanic, and takes af few hours, (a full calibration on white material)
using a Greatag Macbeth I one whit I robot.
There service mechanic says that this only has to be don once, when the printer is installed. (already bin don 4 times now in one year)
I agree that a full calibration not has to be don every time bud a lineaire calibration of CMYK has to be don on the material your printing on and has to be don weekly or surrounding circumstances demand it ( humidity levels, temperature ).
In my current RIP software SeeGet this is not possible, there for changing to Color Gate would be a benefit.

Rob