Help choosing inks for Mimaki JV33 SS21 or Eco Solvent

[nash87]

Hi,
I have a printer that i bought used from someone that needs new ink and a new print head.
The printer came with ss21 inks but I am wondering if I should switch to eco solvent inks now that I have to switch them out.

I have a mutoh valuejet that runs on mutoh eco solvent inks that hardly smell but am a little worried about the solvent smell of ss21 inks since I have a small shop with no ventilation.
I've never smelled the ss21 inks before so I wanted to ask for you opinions.

Also, anyone running eco solvent inks on a mimaki jv33? If so where did you get your profiles? I am having trouble finding profiles for this ink
so am also wondering if its even worth the hassle to switch or if I should just keep the ss21 inks if the smell is not that different.

Any advice is highly appreciated.
Will be running the machine using Wasatch Softrip

Thanks
Renzo

 

[particleman]

What rip are you using? Mimaki provides decent profiles for the JV33/CJV with rasterlink. The ES3 inks will have basically no smell, I've been around them a lot on the CJV30 which is essentially a JV33. The SS21 inks will have a smell. If you are generally printing on vinyl and laminating most prints then ES3 inks won't really be an issue.

 

[nash87]

Thanks for the quick reply, I am using Wasatch Softrip 7.0
When you switched from the ss21 ink profiles to es3 ink did you notice a large difference in color?
What brand ink do you use?

I've seen Bordoux and Solaris inks at fellers but so many options I'm not sure which to use and if I would have to re profile
or if I'm going to have head clogging issues from not using the oem ink.

 

[Laz0924]

I am running eco solvent with a cjv30 and there are not many profiles out there most are for solvent, I have a grand total of 5 profiles with Rasterlink. They work pretty good but only 5.

 

[particleman]

Thanks for the quick reply, I am using Wasatch Softrip 7.0
When you switched from the ss21 ink profiles to es3 ink did you notice a large difference in color?
What brand ink do you use?

I've seen Bordoux and Solaris inks at fellers but so many options I'm not sure which to use and if I would have to re profile
or if I'm going to have head clogging issues from not using the oem ink.

We've just been sticking with OEM Mimaki ink. I was just dealing with colors a few days ago with the ES3 inkset. In my opinion it is a nice color gamut compared to other inks I've seen. We never switched from SS21, but I'm familiar with the inkset already from other machines. I can tell you head clogging is not really an issue at all either with OEM ink.

My only advice on profiles is to invest in a bit of profiling equipment. Something like the i1 is readily available on ebay for a decent price and from that you can create your own profiles for your media. Generally the process isn't too hard to do and it worth the investment.

 

[rturner381]

Check out Colormunki for profile creation http://www.colormunki.com/ I am not sure you will be able to color match output from different printers, even if you are using essentially the same ink in both printers.