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Whats been people's experience switching from a Roland VG series printer to an Epson? The shop I do production at is looking to upgrade away from our VG2-540 - its being a pain. My first simple inclination is to go for the new XG offering from Roland, but with how new it is I haven't heard anything about it, and some of Roland's latest business practices (like making additional job queues in Versaworks a fkn monthly subscription service), as well as this damn TR2-CY ink that seems to be nothing but constant issues and headaches, I'm kind of leaning towards moving to a different manufacturer. One of the most interesting things to me is that one of the selling points I've heard from people about the new Roland XG is that it... uses Epson print heads lol - which makes me think.. why not just buy an Epson?
Color matching existing fleets may be a bit of a pain as we move to a different brand of printer, but that will just require some extra tests and attention. I am also interested in Latex printers - but my very very limited understanding is that those are sometimes prone to cracking and don't handle wraps as well.
Very open to UV as well but don't know much about it.
Use-case is largely vehicle graphics/wraps, as well as signage like ACM, etc. and then a bit of stickers and the like. We don't currently do much banner stuff or anything outside of vinyl printing, but we definitely do printed full-wraps at least fairly often. We also rarely use the Roland for cutting, we have Summas for that, and are already also interested in moving away from Versa to something like Onyx, etc., so included RIP software isn't really a huge selling point either.
What are peoples experience here going from Roland to anything else? Or does anyone have an XG yet that has thoughts on it?
Color matching existing fleets may be a bit of a pain as we move to a different brand of printer, but that will just require some extra tests and attention. I am also interested in Latex printers - but my very very limited understanding is that those are sometimes prone to cracking and don't handle wraps as well.
Very open to UV as well but don't know much about it.
Use-case is largely vehicle graphics/wraps, as well as signage like ACM, etc. and then a bit of stickers and the like. We don't currently do much banner stuff or anything outside of vinyl printing, but we definitely do printed full-wraps at least fairly often. We also rarely use the Roland for cutting, we have Summas for that, and are already also interested in moving away from Versa to something like Onyx, etc., so included RIP software isn't really a huge selling point either.
What are peoples experience here going from Roland to anything else? Or does anyone have an XG yet that has thoughts on it?
