Discussion I've owned an HP R1000 since April 2019, ask me anything

I have one............ why is there air ??

 

That's great to hear! Here is a group dedicated to those machines fyi: https://www.facebook.com/groups/154473558705908/

 

He's being facetious

 

You said ask you anything

 

niiiiiiice, I want one.
so do you basically have to use the adhesive promoter on everything?
Never saw them do it at the tradeshow, but is the removal/reinstall of white printhead fairly simple? Do you have to recalibrate everytime?

any gremlins under the hood yet in terms of printability of certain materials?

edit: good luck maintaining a solid resource through any of these threads. lol. thread pirates abound.

 

How many 4x8 sheets can you print per hour without any banding?

Do you have to use adhesive promoter on coroplast, acm, acrylic, or pvc?

We have seen their samples and it's impressive for sure in terms of scratch resistance on coro.

 

How has your experience been printing .040 and .080 aluminum? How many 4' x 8' sheets of 3mm aluminum composite can you print in an hour?

 

Gonna spoil his fun...he's not in work yet...two gripes...one has been resolved...there was(and still is until everyone's gets the next firmware) a 23 second delay between boards when running a multi panel job. The latest firmware destroys this almost completely. No need for adhesion promoter at all at this point...I am able to print onto glass and you need something sharp to scrape the ink off. The white ink will not green over time either. White head install from beginning to end(and printing) 11 minutes. Outside of a prime and nozzle check through with the drop detector, no wasted ink. No need to remove white ink box and shake once a day. The ink box has a second bladder and every 24 hours the printer moves all of the ink from one bladder to the other mixing it as well as the ink in the system...
The only time you need to recalibrate the heads is when you replace one. As long as you put each of the heads back in their previously calibrated slot you are good to go.
gremlins under the hood..none yet. The product is still evolving. We have not gotten onboard profiling yet but it is coming in a future firmware update. I just went through service training a few weeks back and it is a super easy printer to troubleshoot and repair. To make this product issue free, you absolutely have to create your own media profiles. Once you dial in your media you are good to go. I was running everything 600dpi/8pass for the first 6 months..now I am 300dpi/pass no banding whatsoever.
.030 styrene was the only media that took some extra time to dial in heat for me.
I honestly haven't timed boards...on old firmware 6 4x8 probably felt correct...I just ran 175 12.5x23 in about an hour and 15min yesterday...

second gripe...for whatever reason it does not like same size file on same size sheet. The printer is designed to print on the belt.(huge improvement over fb's...takes about an hour and a half to change)So you are always printing slightly oversized file or onto an oversized sheet. And there isn't an issue every time...just occasionally. I have a router on the list this year so that won't be a problem any longer.

I do love the r2r and panel to panel accuracy. Way better than my 560.

New stuff...multiple queues so you can set the next 8 jobs up while printing for the printer to just keep running. And end users should be able to upgrade their own firmware in the near future.

and Im still not sure what my compressor is used for...

 

so you print onto the belt? is that an issue that requires you to clean or replace regularly, or can you "cheat" by butting-in some cheap/thin poly/acrylic strips to run alongside & reuse.

 

you can cheat. The only issue is white ink...that removes with a brush and isopropyl quite easily.

 

Is it worth that big lease payment?

 

For me, absolutely. Bought a demo unit, received service training to future proof my investment. I can print on anything without any fear of failure or lack of quality.