Advice on printer

[Miccio]

I was wondering if anyone could give me some recommendations on a decent vinyl printer?
I am looking to spend about 5k Canadian for both a printer and plotter. I was going to go with a graphtec 24 inch plotter but not sure what printer to buy?

 

[rjssigns]

$5000 won't be enough unless you find a super deal on used equipment.

 

[Miccio]

$5000 won't be enough unless you find a super deal on used equipment.

I hear ya, thanks. Maybe just go with the plotter first then. Any printers you can recommend?

 

[Jburns]

depends upon what you want to print

 

[ewded]

No money, no knowledge, no business plan. Well I would advise you to get hired at a local sign shop, learn some stuff and find out what you can do and what clients do pay for. 5k is half the price of a professional grade entry lever printer.

 

[Dan360]

With that money you really gotta get lucky, especially up here. There was a Mimaki JV33-160 going for $4,500 in Burgessville at the end of November, not sure if it's still there.

But you may want to get a cheap cutter and outsource printing till it makes sense to buy one.

There's lots of threads about people wanting to get into the business on here, I would do a search and read through those.

 

[Miccio]

Thanks , I never said I wanted to open a business.? I was looking for opinion on lower cost printers if there isn't any that's great! I can actually do alot stuff with just a plotter for fun and income. I do work in a large sign shop in the public sector. The equipment I use is very expensive so I was looking for smaller scale stuff.

No money, no knowledge, no business plan. Well I would advise you to get hired at a local sign shop, learn some stuff and find out what you can do and what clients do pay for. 5k is half the price of a professional grade entry lever printer.

 

[Miccio]

With that money you really gotta get lucky, especially up here. There was a Mimaki JV33-160 going for $4,500 in Burgessville at the end of November, not sure if it's still there.

But you may want to get a cheap cutter and outsource printing till it makes sense to buy one.

There's lots of threads about people wanting to get into the business on here, I would do a search and read through those.

Thanks Dan, that's what I will probably do, look on local buy and sells for used equipment!