Gold?

[phototec]

What is the best recipe for digitally printing a good solid GOLD color with a Roland printer?

 

[Gino]

I have two that I like.

C 30. . . . . . . 75
M 40 . . . . . . 68
Y 80 . . . . . . 67
K 0 . . . . . . . 90

 

[rubo]

if you want to be adventurous there are inks for printing PCBs - printed circuit board - you can run it in piezo head printer, the print looks like gold - nothing like the "metallic ink" crap, it's actually colloidal silver but it looks like gold. And it won't fade - ever. The cost is rather high - a liter is about $4K if I'm not mistaken, it's been a while...The technology has been around for some 20+ years - not for graphics, though...You'll have to create a separate channel for it in your rip so you need a printer with more than 4 colors - you just mentioned Roland so I don't know what you have there. The adventure part is just that - don't know what it will do to the printhead in a long run, it worked for me in Epson 7800 for a while - like 4-5 months, then I dropped it, went different route. PM me if you're serious I'll hook you up w inks.

 

[phototec]

I have two that I like.

C 30. . . . . . . 75
M 40 . . . . . . 68
Y 80 . . . . . . 67
K 0 . . . . . . . 90

Thanks Gino, That what I was looking for, I give them a try....

 

[phototec]

if you want to be adventurous there are inks for printing PCBs - printed circuit board - you can run it in piezo head printer, the print looks like gold - nothing like the "metallic ink" crap, it's actually colloidal silver but it looks like gold. And it won't fade - ever. The cost is rather high - a liter is about $4K if I'm not mistaken, it's been a while...The technology has been around for some 20+ years - not for graphics, though...You'll have to create a separate channel for it in your rip so you need a printer with more than 4 colors - you just mentioned Roland so I don't know what you have there. The adventure part is just that - don't know what it will do to the printhead in a long run, it worked for me in Epson 7800 for a while - like 4-5 months, then I dropped it, went different route. PM me if you're serious I'll hook you up w inks.

Good info, but I only need to print gold for this one wrap job, not really interested in modifying my printer and hurting the heads, I only have 4 anyway and need those for CMYK....