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Hello All,
At the moment I'm running a mural print 1080" x 12'. It took 5 hours to run 11 panels, and ended up with 2.6' left from a 50 yd roll. Jeez, cutting it close. I'm curious, how many continuous hours have you all ran your printers in one run? BTW I'm using an HP 570 Latex printer.
 
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We had a tight deadline, 30ish rolls of some government must be 18+ to smoke decals for stores.

We ran it on 2x 560 printers - took about 4-4.5 hours a roll. I live 10 mins from work... So I had an alarm for every 5 hours... Went into work, unloaded and loaded a new roll and hit print again ... The printers were running almost 24/7.

What was interesting was one printer used 20ish percent more ink, even though it was the same profile / ink limits.... And one machine was 20ish mins slower to print. My guess is head age! We went through 12 yellow carts (they were almost a 100% print) it ate yellow ink like crazy.

We used so much yellow ink that we bought out all of canadas supply and couldn't get anymore for a week or so... So we had to run a few rolls on our s40... That one took like 8ish hours a roll, but we had no choice.

I wish every job was full roll, not print xx on this roll, xx on that roll. Our typical day is printing on 5-6 different materials everyday... It's annoying. Loading a roll, hitting print and walking away.... If only it were always that easy.
 
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ikarasu said:
We had a tight deadline, 30ish rolls of some government must be 18+ to smoke decals for stores.

We ran it on 2x 560 printers - took about 4-4.5 hours a roll. I live 10 mins from work... So I had an alarm for every 5 hours... Went into work, unloaded and loaded a new roll and hit print again ... The printers were running almost 24/7.

What was interesting was one printer used 20ish percent more ink, even though it was the same profile / ink limits.... And one machine was 20ish mins slower to print. My guess is head age! We went through 12 yellow carts (they were almost a 100% print) it ate yellow ink like crazy.

We used so much yellow ink that we bought out all of canadas supply and couldn't get anymore for a week or so... So we had to run a few rolls on our s40... That one took like 8ish hours a roll, but we had no choice.

I wish every job was full roll, not print xx on this roll, xx on that roll. Our typical day is printing on 5-6 different materials everyday... It's annoying. Loading a roll, hitting print and walking away.... If only it were always that easy.
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Wow, bet you never want to see yellow again. As I type, I am nearly done printing the second half of the first mural. 2 murals completed, 2 murals to go and an elevator shaft, and oh yeah what about our other jobs?? I hear you changing the roll out 5-6x a day gets old, it's not like a vending machine guys.
 
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Have you installed any of the mural yet? Let me know how your alignment goes... Our 560 was great on alignment, We've done 50-60 FT wide murals with no issues - but never one that continues into a second roll. Our 700 Sucks for alignment, no matter what we cant get it to print aligned since day 1 - We can get it to do a "Decent" job if we print it all at once... after its on the takeup real...and we run the 10 minute calibration. Our 560 never had that issue - Now we print any murals / multi panel signs on our S40... sucks because the 700 is great in all other regards!

And yes - for some reason yellow is our biggest use... We do a lot of kiosk prints as well, Seems like we go through 3X yellows per any other color, its crazy.
 
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about 10k sqft in a little over 24 hrs, was around 20 rolls. printed on the Colorado 1650 in gloss production mode which was finishing a roll in under an hr.

average day is 5-6 rolls on the colorado of wallpaper/murals.
 
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On our HP 570 when we first got it we Ran 115,000sqft continuous in a little under a month on each machine. Which is roughly 180 rolls per machine running 24hrs a day with breaks only for load and unload.
 
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On our two Roland XR-640 printers they run 12 to 16 hours daily.
Major cleaning done weekly, and always have a new scan motor on stand by, because they only have a 1500 hour life, but will run for 3000 hours.
 
jfiscus

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The Espon printers here run full rolls all day every day without issue. We always run a head check at the beginning of every roll and if it's good to go we send it.
 
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ikarasu said:
Have you installed any of the mural yet? Let me know how your alignment goes... Our 560 was great on alignment, We've done 50-60 FT wide murals with no issues - but never one that continues into a second roll. Our 700 Sucks for alignment, no matter what we cant get it to print aligned since day 1 - We can get it to do a "Decent" job if we print it all at once... after its on the takeup real...and we run the 10 minute calibration. Our 560 never had that issue - Now we print any murals / multi panel signs on our S40... sucks because the 700 is great in all other regards!

And yes - for some reason yellow is our biggest use... We do a lot of kiosk prints as well, Seems like we go through 3X yellows per any other color, its crazy.
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ikarasu said:
Have you installed any of the mural yet? Let me know how your alignment goes... Our 560 was great on alignment, We've done 50-60 FT wide murals with no issues - but never one that continues into a second roll. Our 700 Sucks for alignment, no matter what we cant get it to print aligned since day 1 - We can get it to do a "Decent" job if we print it all at once... after its on the takeup real...and we run the 10 minute calibration. Our 560 never had that issue - Now we print any murals / multi panel signs on our S40... sucks because the 700 is great in all other regards!

And yes - for some reason yellow is our biggest use... We do a lot of kiosk prints as well, Seems like we go through 3X yellows per any other color, its crazy.
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We've installed 5 out the 6 murals, the first 3 were a beast take at look at the attached sample. Turning corners and wrapping around recessed walls while trying to match up the lines was a headache for our installers. The next 3 murals were a solid Pantone 422 and white stripe (2" wide thank god) still was a challenge to hit that grey exactly every time, I ended up calibrating after a test run and then again before I ran each new roll. It's 10pm and I just finished the last panel...
 

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Yikes, definately a pain to install. I imagine stretching it even a hair to align would distort those lines pretty good... So you'd need bang on alignment with no stretching from the beginning. Definately not an easy job!
 
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Christian @ 2CT Media said:
On our HP 570 when we first got it we Ran 115,000sqft continuous in a little under a month on each machine. Which is roughly 180 rolls per machine running 24hrs a day with breaks only for load and unload.
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Wow!!!!! Pedal to the medal, good to know how far it can be pushed. How many years old is the 570? And how often did you have to change the printheads/inks.
 
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victor bogdanov said:
about 10k sqft in a little over 24 hrs, was around 20 rolls. printed on the Colorado 1650 in gloss production mode which was finishing a roll in under an hr.

average day is 5-6 rolls on the colorado of wallpaper/murals.
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Sounds like the Ferarri of printers, wow! The boss man has been looking at Canons...
 
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