EPSON SURECOLOR 80600 METALLIC PRINTING

I have no idea how to do it in Flexi, but to print metallic colors requires you to print in layers. You have to put down an underlayer of metallic silver, have the printer roll back (and wait a drying time) and then lay color on top of the metallic.

Although when I saw the S70670 demoed, they were printing color swatches of metallic colors to show this capability, in over 6 years of use I have neither found a need for this ability, nor been able to make metallic colors that I thought looked any good.

 

Again, as far as I was told from Epson and Flexi themselves, the S80600 isn't properly supported by Flexi and you are better off using the Onyx RIP that comes with the Epson. Also, when doing artwork in Flexi to be sent through the Onyx RIP, do NOT set up the cut line in Flexi but use Adobe Illustrator instead and renaming the color for the cut line "CutContour" or "ContourCut" (I can't recall which it is as it's been a year since using the Epson). As far as the metallic ink, I believe the Onyx RIP would be best as it's set up to use the metallic inks.

 

We've got the S80600 and i recently ran a bunch of metallic silver samples but we use ONYX. Here are some photos...

 

Metallic is a spot, not sure about Flexi but both Onyx and Caldera support it.
No need to print one then go back, just requires quite a few passes.
So if you've printed white before, treat it the same.

That being said, the metallic is nothing special, you get way better results printing on chrome.