JV33 ES3 Inks = Kindergarten watercolors, making the switch.

[petesign]

Can't take it any more. After two years fighting these garbage es3 inks we're swapping over to SS21. Why? Here's my laundry list.

1. Profiles. Mimaki makes this new "eco-solvent" inkset to make us feel warm and fuzzy about saving baby seals.... and then nobody makes profiles for it. Good freaking luck finding one, especially if you are running rasterlink.

2. Watercolors. This stuff has no bite. We have had coroplast signs stick together a week after printing. Sucks to have to laminate EVERYTHING you print, even if it's just 10 double sided coro's someone is going to use for a weekend. Cause if you stack them to ship without liner between each sign, even after a week of dry time they are going to stick together. Banners scratch VERY EASILY. Just moving them on the production table with a self curing mat to put grommets in them, it scratches.

The last straw was yesterday, 100 foot long banner got scratched laying down in the DAMN GRASS during installation. And by scratched I mean, it looks like someone drug this damn thing through a gravel parking lot.

3. Smell? This stuff still smells, I don't care how much better everyone says it is. You can smell it. I don't have my machine vented, because I was told it didn't need to be.

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So, I am kicking this crap to the curb. ES3 sucks. Welcome back ss21, I will donate some money to the WWF so some hippie somewhere can breast-feed a polar bear... I've had enough.

So, any suggestions on venting, to save a little money? hehehe.

 

[Rydaddy]

Grizzly Industrial sells what we use. I will pm you the link.

 

[petesign]

I'm thinking maybe this would work?

http://www.amazon.com/Hydroponics-Inline-Scrubber-Carbon-GRO1/dp/B004Q1TZXW

 

[k.a.s.]

Anyone that has any info on venting one please share, I need to do it with mine. Thanks in advance!

Kevin

 

[tsgstl]

we have a valuejet with eco inks and we always place liners between coro signs. Even after a week if they sit in a hot car they will stick.

 

[SightLine]

I used a 6" inline duct fan liek the one linked above for ours but no carbon filter. I ran 4" flex pipe from the printer to a 6" hard pipe by the ceiling which goes to the inline fan then back down to a 4" dryer exhaust vent I installed in the outside wall. Just ran a wall switch to cut the fan off and on and just run that when we are printing a lot.

 

[EGI]

So we recently got a JV33-160. Came from a JV3-130SPII. We used the SS2 on the JV3, fully vented. With the new JV33 we removed the vent, and are currently using the ES3 ink without a vent, and the smell is less the the vented JV3... We did however have our rep set up custom profiles for the machine using the ES3 ink and the commonly used media we print on. And so far we're not having any of the problems you mention, we've even figured out how to print the "silver" ink on wrap material successfully.