Anyone have a GOOD PhotoTex Profile?

[TheSnowman]

I'm running this High Tack PhotoTex, and what they recommend me using looks like garbage on my end. I used to have a pretty good print relationship with the normal tack stuff, but I don't know if something changed with my printer, or if this new material just prints that much differently, but I'm getting terrible results. Running Onyx w/ Mimaki JV33 and Triangle JVV inks.

 

[jfiscus]

Make sure that they sent you the correct material, there are different versions of Phototex out now, and some of them are not solvent printable.
There should be a letter code in the product identifier. (EXS should mean solvent printable)
http://www.phototexgroup.com/sizes/

I might not have tried the most recent formulation, but around a year ago we tried the opaque phototex and couldn't print on it at that time either with our Mimaki JV3 inks.

 

[TheSnowman]

Well, just figured it out. They don't make a 42" High Tack for Solvent printers. The website clued me all in, and my fellers rep is here now making it all right. Sure beats sitting here wondering why I can't hit colors, and why my print quality is garbage. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Sometimes stuff like this happens, where you order two rolls of something new in, and it's the wrong stuff, it's all in how you deal with it, and Fellers is standing behind it, so I'm still going to walk away with an ok feeling in the end.

 

[eahicks]

Phototex with the Green print on the small tabs holding the roll together or on the box itself mean it's the Latex stuff. Doesn't print well on solvent.

 

[PhotoTex Group Inc.]

PhotoTex

Please let me know this is taken care of or I can call you just e-mail me at walterjr@phototexgroup.com

 

[PhotoTex Group Inc.]

Photo Tex versions

I attached a list to spell everything out and always call me Walter Gierlach 330-360-0019

 

[Jackpine]

I've use PhotoTex with an Epson 7700 pigment print and Epson profile "adhesive synthetic" with great results and solvent PhotoTex with a Valuejet using 203 concept vinyl profile with good results. It's good stuff.

 

[TheSnowman]

Thanks Walter. You or Jr were on the phone w/ my sales rep yesterday while he happened to have stopped by just as I figured all this out. Sounds like they are on the UPS truck for delivery today. I believe it's all being ironed out, and Fellers said it was an issue between them and you guys, not between me and Fellers.

 

[toomeycustoms]

On our Roland we have found the Graphitex profile to produce a more accurate color than the profiles provided on the Phototex website.