petesign
New Member
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.
===
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.
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.
===
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.