Interested in the Epson Resin line, tell me what you love and hate about them.

[Kernersville Vinyl]

Been printing trailer wraps on HP Latex 365's for about 9 years, they are fairly reliable printers with the downside being the quality on jobs that require hi-res prints, fine for trailer wraps, but not great for product labels or photo quality prints.
I don't see us ever going to anything that requires outgassing, seems like too much trouble.
Let me know what you think.

 

[bdw99]

I ran a latex 570 for 5 years and just switched to an r5070 a few weeks ago. This is my first resin machine but I can give my first initial thoughts about it.

First things first I will say that to me, the HP has better "quality of life" aspects to it. Things seems to be a little more clunky and less streamline with the r5070. For example, the take up roll on the epson is so close to the floor, so taking off larger rolls can be cumbersome. I also really miss the fact that the 570 had an internal hard drive, which would allow me to queue up multiple print/cut jobs to print continuously. With the epson you have to wait until the print job is complete before doing the next. Also, print profile selections are more limited.

As far as color/consistency goes Epson is definitely better. It can hit colors like grey way better than latex can. In higher pass modes the quality is great.

Also huge first impression is that the Epson has a much better build quality. Very little plastic parts, very nice pinch rollers, even the platen is metal.

Like I said I'm very new to this machine but these are some of my first impressions.

 

[victor bogdanov]

Wish I would've bought Epson S60600 instead of the R5070L, I'll take outgassing for a few hours over warping from heat anyday

 

[White Haus]

I ran a latex 570 for 5 years and just switched to an r5070 a few weeks ago. This is my first resin machine but I can give my first initial thoughts about it.

First things first I will say that to me, the HP has better "quality of life" aspects to it. Things seems to be a little more clunky and less streamline with the r5070. For example, the take up roll on the epson is so close to the floor, so taking off larger rolls can be cumbersome. I also really miss the fact that the 570 had an internal hard drive, which would allow me to queue up multiple print/cut jobs to print continuously. With the epson you have to wait until the print job is complete before doing the next. Also, print profile selections are more limited.

As far as color/consistency goes Epson is definitely better. It can hit colors like grey way better than latex can. In higher pass modes the quality is great.

Also huge first impression is that the Epson has a much better build quality. Very little plastic parts, very nice pinch rollers, even the platen is metal.

Like I said I'm very new to this machine but these are some of my first impressions.

I don't have any experience with Latex or Resin printers, just wanted to give you a tip for loading multiple files, assuming you are using Onyx. (If not, then you may be correct about not being able to send down multiple jobs at once)

In Onyx set your Placement Strategy to "Print Jobs Individually". Click the gear icon to get in the (placement strategy) options and check the first box: Print Triggering: Automatically Start Printing.

This will automatically push files to your printer until it runs out of files in the queue.

**NOTE** Get all your files set up beforehand or make sure they're on hold until they're truly ready to print. Onyx doesn't care if your files aren't ready - it will just keep printing whatever gets loaded in the queue.

Very useful feature if you want to keep jobs separated or in smaller batches, and don't want to keep sending jobs down manually.

Hope this helps.