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360 vs L26500

daenterpri

daenterpri

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I need to get another printer. So, do I purchase another L26500 used, or do I spend another $9k to get a new 360? Most of our current work is 10pass. Is the 360 that much more faster at 10pass?

Would the new scratch resistant inks be durable enough to market non-laminated decals to my customers that normally purchase screen printed decals?

Lastly, if I picked up a 360 instead of another L26500, are people going to see a big difference in prints if say I print half an order of decals on one printer and the other half on another printer? Will the color and quality be significantly different?

Thanks!
 
P Wagner

P Wagner

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daenterpri said:
I need to get another printer. So, do I purchase another L26500 used, or do I spend another $9k to get a new 360? Most of our current work is 10pass. Is the 360 that much more faster at 10pass?

Would the new scratch resistant inks be durable enough to market non-laminated decals to my customers that normally purchase screen printed decals?

Lastly, if I picked up a 360 instead of another L26500, are people going to see a big difference in prints if say I print half an order of decals on one printer and the other half on another printer? Will the color and quality be significantly different?

Thanks!
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The overall throughput of the HP Latex 360 is significantly faster than the Latex 260 when printing on similar medias. This is due to:

1) A Major reduction in printer warm-up time from ~ 8-10 minutes on the L260 to ~90 seconds on the L360.
2) The addition of the Optimizer to the ink set promotes faster printing due to the chemical bond formed between the optimizer and the ink set, allowing to print at lower pass counts. The carriage movement has also been sped up by 50 percent (60ips on the L360).

Color gamut is not significantly different between the ink sets on the L260 and L360 in my testing.
 
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toodark

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With the differences you stated above is the 26500 able to get a firmware flash to change the warm-up time and add the optimizer or are the motherboards that much different we just have to suck it up with our wait time and slower printers? Also, I just received a call from a local shop who is selling his used/new 26500 (VERY little use, wish I had the room for another printer)
 
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AF

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You could always hold off and wait for the 460. Room temperature cure but the machine and ink are stored cryogenically to keep the ink in its liquid state.
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Seriously though, if the printer will be used nonstop I would think the time savings afforded by the 360 would be worth the price premium. If the machine will be idle for part of the day, the 260/26500 should be fine.
 
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