Hey Heads, I'm looking to buy a solvent jet printer and need some advice on which one to buy. If you have one of these I would love to hear your experience, good or bad.
Posted by Gary Hove (Member # 4970) on :
I run a sc-500 soljet. Works fine but I can only print on media for the ecoinks that it uses. I know that there is an upgrade for the sc-500 so it becomes a thermal printer but I have not had much call, or to say I still like working around that situation.I find the soljet a reliable printer and easy to maintain. I like the quality it prints for my applications. I use oneshot uv clear that I stray on for a protectice coating. I would say this about any solvent printer. Make sure that you media and ink is not a problem to aquire. I have waited a week or two to get in some media. Also, the service and tech support should be checked into. for exemple is the sales rep in your area a tech as well.
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
Rick I think if you do a search on digital printers you will find a wealth of recent discussions on them.
I'm very happy with my Soljet Pro II. And I have put mine through one hell of a test over the past six months. Very little maintenance and the quality and speed are really good.
Call me if you have any specific questions about it.
Posted by greg baker (Member # 3337) on :
We own a sc500 (soljet) with the heater upgrade, which now lets us print onto most vinyls (coated and uncoated). The print quality I find outstanding, so good that we dont even use the top quality print mode because the fine2 mode is good enough for us. Weve had it for 4 years now and we replaced the heads twice, due to the amount of use. If you decide to get a printer, I would suggest to go for the wider (1370mm) version, it opens up so many more possibilites, like printing all of your banners instaed of signwriting them.
Posted by Gary Hove (Member # 4970) on :
I agree with Greg, get the wider version. I am glad that I did. The banner printing is fast at fine2. I also do art prints for local artist in town. Once I have there work scaned in I can print off their work on a few different canvases.
