Printer Recommendation For 24" Wide Artwork
Darren Harris
X 2 feet to 2 X 5 feet.
*Can I get printer and archival ink recommendations for accomplishing
this?
My goal is to create what amounts to "posters". I will then laminate
over them for durability, and also apply an adhesive laminate under
them, so I can apply them to the side of cabinets.
Any advice and recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
Gordon R. Frey
wrote:
>I would like to make print-outs of my artwork in sizes ranging from 2
>X 2 feet to 2 X 5 feet.
>
>*Can I get printer and archival ink recommendations for accomplishing
>this?
>
>My goal is to create what amounts to "posters". I will then laminate
>over them for durability, and also apply an adhesive laminate under
>them, so I can apply them to the side of cabinets.
>
>Any advice and recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
>
Your chooses are all $$$$, Size D plotters, like the Designjet 450.
HP does offer a pigment ink for them. The photo plots are the Epson
9000 series but they are also in the three figures cost wise.
Gordon
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Darren Harris
seems to be the standard.
Does anyone see any problems with what I want to do?
Thanks.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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Arthur Entlich
It uses the new Ultrabrite inks, which have a better color gamut, which
is good. They are pigmented inks which means they also have good
characteristics in terms of slow fading.
The only two issues I can think of are:
1) Pigmented inks seem to be more picky about the paper they work best with
2) The 7600 and 9600 both come with two types of black ink available. A
matte black for matte papers and a glossy black for glossy photo papers.
Unfortunately, rather than allowing for two slots and heads, one for
each ink, and allow one or the other to be used via software, Epson
chose to make them exchangeable. The problem is that once you have one
type in place and charge the head system, the system needs to be purged
to use the other ink (or you might be able to use it and wait for the
ink in the tubes to be used up, and it will eventually switch to the
other ink, if the software/firmware allows for this). Even this
wouldn't be too so bad, if the system just purged the black head and
tube (you'd still waste a fair amount of ink), but Epson's design is
even sillier. When you switch black carts and the system is purged, it
purges all the colors at the same time, and all that ink literally "goes
down the drain". It ends up costing about $100 in ink with each
changeover just one direction.
If you don't need to make the change over (you start with the right ink
for your project) this won't be necessary, but I think the design leaves
something to be desired.
Also, be aware that right now you can only get the inks for this printer
from Epson, so you are at their mercy for price. Each cartridge has a
programmed chip which monitors ink use, and once it is empty, it needs
to be either replaced, or you need to try to refill it and reprogram the
chip.
Art
Darren Harris
It's a shame the kind of things a company will pull to screw over the
comsumert in an effort to squeeze out more profits.
I guess I have a lot of thinking to do on this subject. Perhaps a
different company has another printer in the works that is capable of
satisfying my objectives.
(I might be printing on adhesive vinyl, because the artwork I want to
print out is to be applied to some classic full sized(coin-operated)
arcade video game cabinets I have).
Thanks.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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