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Well it's made in Europe but I have 10+ Colorado techs in my city in Texas (they also work on Canon copiers etc). Canon is a huge global company

I signed a service contract after the 1 year warranty ran out and while it is not cheap, one printed roll per month pays for the service contract and I have 0 worries about the printer breaking down.

The Colorado would likely save you enough on ink compared to the HP printers to pay for the printer and service contract. How much do you spend on HP ink per month, Colorado would cut that in half. Plus Colorado is made in the Netherlands so very close to Northern Europe, should have some good...

You literally change the air filters yourself on the Colorado :big laugh:

In my situation I was also letting the employee take the decals home to weed so I'm sure there were lots that didn't come back to my shop. Learn from mistakes

so why you need 2 jobs then if so talented?

Don't allow it, you are paying for their training and creating a competitor

I had very good employee of 2 years who was also friends with my mother, who mostly weeded/packaged orders bring her older son to work when we needed extra help and I taught him how to run the cutters part time while he has another full time job. A few months go by and both put in their 2 weeks...

Mine are 100% raster, based on watercolor scans. You can see the paper texture etc. Anything less that 150dpi I can see a difference in the print quality of the fine details. Im sure I could optimize the files to save size but why when the computer can handle it

120" H x 300"+ W at 150dpi is a common size I work with, the files themselves are usually under 3GB but when working on the files with dozens of layers, objects etc and resizing, the ram usage goes up significantly and then drops downs after the operation is performed. Biggest one I've worked on...

I print similar materials, head crashed are very rare, most of the time the lamp hits before the head carriage. I had maybe 1-2 times when the material touches the actual heads, the other times the machine stops as soon as the carriage touches

I'm happy printing wallpaper at 600sq ft per hr, perfect panel length and color consistency. All I see is panel length and color consistency complaints from latex users trying to print wallpaper. Ive had 0 downtime in a year/400k sq/ft of using the Colorado.

ink use/cost on colorado is low and the savings will pay for the machine if printing a lot

That price will get you a decent computer. Amazons lenient return policy makes for lots of returned items including computers. Can't sell the returns as new so they get passed off as refurbished, after checking hopefully

92% humidity right now in Houston, AC is on to get it down some :big laugh:

Get a quote on the printer from Canon to see all the prices. The heads are $3k-4k each depending on service contract you go with. While the cost seems high, the printhead/sqft price is pretty low and people report 500k+ sq/ft with no head change. I'm at about 400k sq/ft, heads are still perfect...

Its like a fitness coach/trainer, everyone knows that they need to eat less and exercise more yet very few make the changes long term

I'm 12 years in and don't know what a business plan is

My guess is ROI will be low unless it is something highly specific like a wrapping class or another printshop specific class for a service/product you want to learn , how long have you been is business?