Mimaki 2513 or Vanguard VR5D

Vanguard all the way. Dave Cich owner of Vanguard is a stand up guy. You will not go wrong with his machines nor the way he takes care of you after.

 

If you are going to do a Mimaki definitely go with the ex if you are going to use speciality colors like white and clear due to the third printhead. That extra printhead makes a big different in print time if your going to be pumping out lots of signage. I am a tech with a distributor of wide format printing mimaki, Oki, canon but have no experience with Vanguard.

 

We had a Mimaki and although a great machine it was too slow for us and we had to find something faster as our demand kept increasing. Very easy to run and maintain, and it was very dependable. To print a 4x8 it took almost 17 minutes printing CMYK though so if you have high volume or expect increased demand might want to look at something faster. I am sure some stuff has changed as we had one of the first 9 that came into the states.

 

Did you decide ?