We had one of those installed this spring. Previously we used Roland XR640. Overall I am already disappointed, but there are also good things about it. The white color is really good, but our white head started dropping out just after a few months of use. It takes a number of head cleaning cycles to get it fully back. The paint from the bottom of the carriage started flaking off. Mimaki said it is fine... It is not, I started getting those flakes dropping on my prints here and there, and I am cleaning this printer after each time it was used. The software, RasterLink6 is not user-friendly, it feels ancient and overly complicated (compared to VersaWorks). You'll need a dedicated PC or a very long USB cable (in our case) to reliably run it because over the local network it would not properly run. One major problem in my opinion is that the inks do expire and the salespeople did not tell us that. Right now I have unopened inks that already have expired. If you do not use a lot of white or clear or in general do not print a lot then really think about it. It is nice that the prints are ready to go right after they were produced, but them sitting on top of the media makes colors look plastic and unnatural. I cannot get the colors to look right. In some instances that is what we need, but sometimes we need that organic merge between media and solvent inks and the color perception it produces. You cannot have it with UV inks. You cannot get clear/translucent color prints with UV unless you lay down clear ink too, and that slows down the printing time considerably. I would say this printer would be a nice addition to the solvent printer because it cannot completely replace it. It prints fast, but pre-printing preparations can be ridiculously long. Cleaning is much easier and less messy as compared to solvent inks. You cannot have direct sunlight in that room.
