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I paid good money for you to read this!
So -
I needed some full color metallic air release graphics for a fleet that we letter. I found this old thread and got some 3M 180C-220 in to try printing with my Eco-Sol Roland. Lo and behold, it was gorgeous! It took the ink well, dried purty, and made the customer very happy. I just got in my third roll of it, and it's a disaster. It looks like, well, it looks bad. The second roll is the top piece and the new roll is on the bottom.
It didn't occur to me until this happened that since this stuff isn't spec'd for anything other than screen printing it could change makeup enough for my puny "eco" ink to fail and I'd have no recourse. I haven't contacted my distributor yet to see if they'll take it back, but I doubt they will - we ruined 3' of the roll doing something that the material was not designed to do.
Does anyone have any input beyond harsh criticism? Actually that's unfair to the trolls; I'll take the criticism too.
Should I try sending the roll to someone with a full solvent printer or a UV printer maybe?
Any other direction I could go? My customer is going to want to be fairly close on color but not to the point of needing an "exact" match.
I needed some full color metallic air release graphics for a fleet that we letter. I found this old thread and got some 3M 180C-220 in to try printing with my Eco-Sol Roland. Lo and behold, it was gorgeous! It took the ink well, dried purty, and made the customer very happy. I just got in my third roll of it, and it's a disaster. It looks like, well, it looks bad. The second roll is the top piece and the new roll is on the bottom.
It didn't occur to me until this happened that since this stuff isn't spec'd for anything other than screen printing it could change makeup enough for my puny "eco" ink to fail and I'd have no recourse. I haven't contacted my distributor yet to see if they'll take it back, but I doubt they will - we ruined 3' of the roll doing something that the material was not designed to do.
Does anyone have any input beyond harsh criticism? Actually that's unfair to the trolls; I'll take the criticism too.
Should I try sending the roll to someone with a full solvent printer or a UV printer maybe?
Any other direction I could go? My customer is going to want to be fairly close on color but not to the point of needing an "exact" match.
