memjet wide format - extreme speed

[artbot]

saw this video years ago. it disappeared. well it's back and evidently memjet is up and running. won't be long before this is the standard.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TzsL63BHuU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd6mHVerWTc&feature=player_embedded#!

 

[Sticky Signs]

Wow.

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

Ohh my. Another one the disappeared was the on that prints directly onto a wall. Remember that one Artbot?

 

[artbot]

i remember some kind of gantry printer from japan and also the "painting machine" that pulled paint directly from soup cans with a wire (called a wirejet) and blew the paint off the wire with air. i almost bought one of those. still wish i did.

 

[Flame]

I call bs. Dude...come on, it ain't happening.

1. Who cares, who really needs a printer that fast.

2. How the **** you going to dry media quick enough? Unless they invented ink too

3. I could do the same demonstration with my valuejet, with a straight on shot, with pre-printed media that I'm just rolling through the machine.

 

[MikePro]

how about portability instead?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTUqY4np9U&feature=related

 

[GAC05]

I call bs. Dude...come on, it ain't happening.

1. Who cares, who really needs a printer that fast.

2. How the **** you going to dry media quick enough? Unless they invented ink too

3. I could do the same demonstration with my valuejet, with a straight on shot, with pre-printed media that I'm just rolling through the machine.

Looks like a real printer with some pretty large print heads daisy chained together:
http://www.memjet.com/images/company_info/wide_format2_RGB.jpg

Looks like it is all interior (water based maybe)Dye ink - can be made to dry pretty fast

My 1304 can't feed material that fast, pre-printed or not.....

wayne k
guam usa

 

[artbot]

i'd love to have one. i print on mainly flat media (right now running white ink layers on 4x8's of finished mahogany). snore... i'd be in bed and done with a printer like that. instead i'll be up all night waiting 20 minutes a piece for these sheets.

 

[AUTO-FX]

Looks expensive...

 

[Farmboy]

A search turned up that there is still no release date or price on these printers. At least I didn't come across any.

 

[R08]

Looks like they're starting with Office printers first:
http://business-standard.com/india/news/wep-partners-memjet/421284/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSUdaZYPwzY&NR=1

 

[R08]

and label printers and such

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwG6hXYN7DU&NR=1

 

[Farmboy]

http://www.astromachine.com/products/printers.htm
AstroJet M1

 

[ddarlak]

i just don't see this becoming a production machine.

the cost and upkeep cost has to make it unprofitable.

IMUEHO

 

[R08]

i just don't see this becoming a production machine.

the cost and upkeep cost has to make it unprofitable.

IMUEHO

agreed as far as regular sign shops go... but it may have a niche type market where volume and pricing are important. Like posters perhaps.

IMUEHO (first time I've seen this one... in my uneducated? humble opinion?)

 

[andy]

i remember some kind of gantry printer from japan and also the "painting machine" that pulled paint directly from soup cans with a wire (called a wirejet) and blew the paint off the wire with air. i almost bought one of those. still wish i did.

Digital airbrush machines....

We used one many moons ago to print a bus wrap for a large fast food restaurant chain.. the results were pretty sweet if I recall.

I think it worked like a CNC flat bed on it's side... the media was stretched tight and held vertical whilst the gantries flew around firing paint

 

[R08]

Digital airbrush machines....

We used one many moons ago to print a bus wrap for a large fast food restaurant chain.. the results were pretty sweet if I recall.

I think it worked like a CNC flat bed on it's side... the media was stretched tight and held vertical whilst the gantries flew around firing paint

That brings back memories. I believe one was called the Michaelangelo(sp?). They sent me a sample of a print on a piece of carpet once. Looked great for its time.
Always wondered what ever happened to those. I wanted one but as I recall they where very expensive.

 

[AUTO-FX]

I had a salesman stop in my shop way back, telling me all about one of these[airbrush machines], and he said there was someone local to me that bought one. I kept my eyes peeled for months and never saw anything on the street done with it.He was touting the use of waterbased paint with it, if I remember right. Never saw that salesman again either. I always suspected it must have had serious flaws.

 

[Fatboy]

Bliksem that is fast

 

[Typestries]

It's not BS. I have seen the print samples here in my shop and a vid of the machine running here on the East Coast. A member here is getting one that's specific to the corrugated printing industry built by Sun and Kodak. The print quality is amazing at 500 FPM across a sheet's width. Yes 500 linear feet per minute, or roughly 2000 sq ft per MINUTE. Small drop size, high rez, it's comparable to the anapurna or vutek QS quality wise (maybe even better).

I'll wait for him to chime in. It's the real deal and will be the next big evolution in this industry.