Hello. I have been looking into getting my first flatbed printer and have been leaning towards a JFX 200 2513EX due to owning 2 previouse Mimaki roll printers for the last 20 years so very familiar and comfortable with Mimaki and Raserlink. A big selling point for me is the 2.5D ability and hopefully printing braille. Some Mimaki reps say that it is not suitable for braille. Does anybody know if there is a way to make it work for ADA. I see that the Rasterlink Plugin for Illustrator has a option for braille for flatbed printers.
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JFX 200 2513EX & Braille
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Paradox Group
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Sorry to tell you but printing braille on a Mimaki JFX is absolutely not feasible.
I believe you but what exactly happens when you try? Sorry for the ignorance but I never owned or ran a flatbed.
Christian @ 2CT Media
Active Member
Why? It has all the capabilities.
I don't have a Mimaki in my shop, but we were told the same about our Vanguard and that is not the case at all
Superior_Adam
New Member
It will take forever I would think. The build up the braille dots you have to run multiple passes printing varnish
Pauly
Printrade.com.au
It would take forever.
When i was in one of the UV printing groups (and discovered it's full of desktop uv printers) some would do braille on their mimaki JFX. would run 10 or more prints / pases over the stock using a 3 or 5 pass mode. same as running 10x boards on one of your slowest print modes.
Paradox Group
New Member
I will try to explain, in order to print braille one has to print first a few layers of clear or white (the amount of layers depends on the printhead type) one on top of the other and finally print one layer of color if needed, a true braille printer will print the layers of W or CL back and forth and then print the color in one path whereas most large flatbed do not have this capability.
Christian @ 2CT Media
Active Member
That's not entirely true, most flatbeds have the ability to print more than one layer in a pass depending on it's configuration. We can hit up to 32 layers in "one pass".
I understand the mimaki may be slow, but in reality it may still well be faster than setting raster spheres, and cheaper than Buying a small format DTS or Mutoh.