Do Latex Printers Us The Same Materials As Solvent Printers?

[player]

Curious... The same vinyls and laminates?

 

[Christian @ 2CT Media]

Yes and no....

Typically anything labeled solvent can be run in latex, only limitation is heat tolerance. Latex also can print on things that eco-solvent can't.

 

[player]

Right...

The lams?

 

[Christian @ 2CT Media]

Laminates are relatively independent of inks used.

 

[CES020]

Latex also can print on things that eco-solvent can't.

Just curious what some of those things might be. I'm new to it all, so forgive me for asking the easy questions

 

[Christian @ 2CT Media]

We've printed on foils, lots of cut vinyls, 3M 1080, styrene, metallics, fabrics... not all solvents can print on these materials but there are some that can.

 

[Snydo]

you printed on styrene on a latex printer? really? An HP latex?

 

[Christian @ 2CT Media]

Yes, we had a roll we got from Port Plastics of .020 Styrene that we directly printed on with our old L25500

 

[chafro]

Styrene doesn't do well with latex printers heat. Guarantee head strike.

And for the main topic yes, most of the medias I use for latex are labeled for solvent or uv printers.

 

[Christian @ 2CT Media]

i must be a fluke because I never experience a problem running styrene through our machine on the HP Low Temp media setting with the HP Everyday Matte Polypropylene profile in onyx.

 

[Graphic Destruction]

I think the biggest thing is not so much the material, but the backer the material has. Most synthetic/poly type backers are bad. Solid paper backers are what you want.