New VS300i printing grainy

[GEEGEE83]

Hello everyone, my first post.

I have just purchased a new VS300i to go alongside my much loved BN-20 which has been a workhorse for 2 years now.

Despite trying various media profiles, I cannot seem to get a decent solid colour from the VS300i, and it's output is far inferior to the BN20.

I've switched to Uni-Directional, I have found a decent profile and that made a huge difference, I even purchased the vinyl for the profile, but still some grainy prints.

Is this just to be expected? I'm sort of wishing I had just purchased another BN20, which is crazy really.

Can anyone help?

I'm printing stickers on Metamark MDP, and I have tried Oracal 3164, which is the media profile I'm also using.

Just want my solid colours back

 

[Ragnabrok]

the bn-20 doesn't have a heater, so ink can pool a bit before it dries. it also prints horrifically slow in comparison. You can try turning off the heat and printing at high quality to emulate the same printing conditions as the BN-20.

You can hit solid colours at VS speeds as well, after finding a profile/speed/heat/color space/file export/file color type mix that all works together to give you the results you are looking for.