Oce Colorado just installed

Haha wow. Great some honest feedback from an actual user.

I heard only cheaper monomeric vinyls get brittle. Have you tried intermediate/cast?

 

Congratulations on the new equipment. I’m looking at it for similar applications - wall coverings and banners.

I’m interested to know why you plan to use 180 instead of a wall paper product.

 

Chris,
How long will the warranty be?
How much will a service contract cost?
Bruce

 

What mode are you mostly running? We evaluated one and on paper we were sold. There are a few short comings that stopped us from purchasing which was disappointing because a lot of the machine and usability is awesome and would of fit into our workflow.

The things we found were the print quality at 20sqm an hour was only acceptable to us. At 40sqm there were print artefacts in terms of a gloss banding or step issue.

the little white wheels leave puncture marks in synthetic materials.

If they could fix those two issues I'd be sold.

 

We are having one installed next week. Anything we should know about that we can "pre-warn" the technician about?

 

I see SwissQ are bringing out a roll fed printer.
That should be interesting.

 

Which synthetic materials are you referring to? Ours is being installed as I type this and the sales guy and the tech both say they've never heard of anything getting brittle or damaged.

 

You can run multiple 500 series Latex machines for the same price and it will out produce the Colorado. I have seen the Colorado in a few very successful situations so far, but to me it still seems limited on what it can do. The new Swiss Q machine is going to be radical!

 

We run decals on 3m ij35 and it cuts and weeds fine. We did have to have them create a special profile for us because the canned profile the ink was being lifted off the media when using a graphtec cutter and transfer paper. We had to extend the carriage travel time to the max. It works but the time it takes to print jobs is frustrating.

 

So not the speed demon they make it out to be? LOL, so much for game changer.

 

You could always use better, cheaper alternative inks for your Colorado. Of course, you will have to forego the semi-predatory contract.

 

With Yuppo the little white wheels that have the spikes leave puncture marks in the material.

 

any new feedback? just wanna see how these are doing in the field.

 

Curious as well. Have not heard a lot of good things from actual production shops. I hope it is going well for your use though!