i belive the bulk systems are availabe for it. and sign, you are better off having a falcon first. we wouldnt have EVEN KNOWN the quality of the value jet if we didnt start with the falcon. it prints bidirrectional so fast with such quality, its AMAZING. the time you save alone will pay for it. we got the 1204 with flexi pro to our door for 10.5k. it paid for itself in a week.
this will trip you out. the valuejet has one head instead of two. and it has EIGHT lines coming into the one head, two for each color, and two dampers. that means the head is much wider from front to back. the print pass is so much wider its amazing. what took us 2 hours with our falcon, takes us 30 mins with the valuejet, and is 10x the quality. the falcon has such noticable banding where as the value HAS NONE. with the new wave technology, its great. and from what i understand, if you run out of ink on an overnight print, you can swap out in the morning, and you wont see any dry line like you do with the falcon. if you dont replace that cartride IMMEDIATELY and start the print again, you will see the line.
also the firmware is so much better. it really makes it need much less maintenance before a print. the ageing system is much more intuative so you dont have to do nozzle checks and whatnot before a print if its sat for a day or more. it cleans itself and does all kinds of cool stuff. the 1604 also has pull down doors to clean the head, and has a mirror in the cleaning door to see the bottom of the head. its real neat. the 1204 doesnt have this, but its still so much better.
coming from a falcon like you are, i think you will just sit back and go WOW like we did for a week after getting it.
couple of things i dont like though are:
kind of flimsy. falcon built like a f*cking TANK. valuejet, much more plastic
no crosscut on 1204 valuejet
no waste ink bottle on 1204. it uses a HUGE spitton pad setup.
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