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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.
-------------------- Ricky Jackson Signs Now 614 Russell Parkway Warner Robins, GA (478) 923-7722 signpimp50@hotmail.com
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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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.
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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.
-------------------- Bob Stephens Skywatch Signs Zephyrhills, FL
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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.
-------------------- Greg Baker Sign City 14 Milton Circuit Port Macquarie NSW 2444 signcity1@bigpond.com Posts: 48 | From: australia | Registered: Oct 2002
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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.
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