Is Mimaki Better Than Roland?

[gelink]

for print and cut the best is Roland
Mimaki no precision after 2 month

 

[SGS Graphics]

We started our part time business back in 2014 with a Graphtec CE6000 cutter doing small decals and when my partner was made redundant I set her up with a Roland Soljet Pro4 XR640 printer cutter around 2018 and made it full time. Within 3 months needed various new parts under warranty including boards. Finally got it working reasonable printing well but cut has always been terrible. So terrible in fact around 2 weeks ago bought a Summa cutter which I cannot stress how much better it performs set the job up set it going and literally forget about it. Perfect contour cutting every time. The Roland on the other hand can’t track more than 2 inch without forgetting what to do. 25k flagship machine and quite frankly even there own engineers say they can’t cut accurately. And if you need the specs and can understand them they even tell you that they can’t cut accurately lol.

Now today a printhead has gone down on the Roland and it’s another £2500 repair. I can’t wait to replace the Roland with any other brand but can’t justify it right now. But the next machine will certainly not be a Roland and once it’s gone il never let a Roland machine in our shop ever again.

 

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We started our part time business back in 2014 with a Graphtec CE6000 cutter doing small decals and when my partner was made redundant I set her up with a Roland Soljet Pro4 XR640 printer cutter around 2018 and made it full time. Within 3 months needed various new parts under warranty including boards. Finally got it working reasonable printing well but cut has always been terrible. So terrible in fact around 2 weeks ago bought a Summa cutter which I cannot stress how much better it performs set the job up set it going and literally forget about it. Perfect contour cutting every time. The Roland on the other hand can’t track more than 2 inch without forgetting what to do. 25k flagship machine and quite frankly even there own engineers say they can’t cut accurately. And if you need the specs and can understand them they even tell you that they can’t cut accurately lol.

Now today a printhead has gone down on the Roland and it’s another £2500 repair. I can’t wait to replace the Roland with any other brand but can’t justify it right now. But the next machine will certainly not be a Roland and once it’s gone il never let a Roland machine in our shop ever again.

Change your own printheads. Get them from Someone legit online for almost half what the Roland dealer sells them to you for, and with some online and phone help available by the vender (not Roland) you are going to do it for 1/4 the cost of bloated old Roland. There are legit print head sellers on this forum, Digiprint Supplies sells them for half of Roland's costs, there are Facebook groups with legit seller as well. Become your own tech and cut the ties with Roland. Give them the booooot out the door. lol

 

[SGS Graphics]

Change your own printheads. Get them from Someone legit online for almost half what the Roland dealer sells them to you for, and with some online and phone help available by the vender (not Roland) you are going to do it for 1/4 the cost of bloated old Roland. There are legit print head sellers on this forum, Digiprint Supplies sells them for half of Roland's costs, there are Facebook groups with legit seller as well. Become your own tech and cut the ties with Roland. Give them the booooot out the door. lol

Ive thought about it but I don't know enough about the machine to attempt that repair myself. We dont use Roland at all we have an independent guy who does our repairs who is excellent but prices are obviously not cheap

 

[ericu]

Mimaki CJV150-160 was the happiest accident I ever had. It blows Roland away in nearly every category and even have the cap station fill for ink for nozzle washes is something you have to manually do to a Roland. The plotting or die cutting ran through illustrator is by far the most accurate print and cut arrangement I have ever had. Roland wants proprietary print heads. That is not innovative to me. The Rasterlink RIP is on par with Onyx when used with Adobe. Roland was all I ever wanted, all I ever used..... but sadly their time is fading. I have spoke to Mimaki through call line 3 different times 20 minutes and under no charge every time

Eric

 

[SGS Graphics]

Mimaki CJV150-160 was the happiest accident I ever had. It blows Roland away in nearly every category and even have the cap station fill for ink for nozzle washes is something you have to manually do to a Roland. The plotting or die cutting ran through illustrator is by far the most accurate print and cut arrangement I have ever had. Roland wants proprietary print heads. That is not innovative to me. The Rasterlink RIP is on par with Onyx when used with Adobe. Roland was all I ever wanted, all I ever used..... but sadly their time is fading. I have spoke to Mimaki through call line 3 different times 20 minutes and under no charge every time

Eric

Mimaki was going to be out Next buy for printer. But in the uk they are well known for bad aftercare and you struggle to get repairs