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Cmiller01

Printer
Hi All,
We are looking to buy a printer with pretty good color output, just to print on standard paper, that is at least 36" wide. We are using a HP Designjet 500 right now and the color is less than vibrant. We mainly use it for black and white elevations in our office area, which it is more than fine for, but now that we are doing our own design concepts and presenting them to potential clients and we want to be able to present something that has some vibrant color, right now it just looks dull.
So right now, we just want something at least 36" wide if not more, with better color output. New or Used but in good condition. Any suggestions would be helpful. We can only print 24" wide on the current printer.
We do alot of presentations that are at least 36" x 48" . Thanks!
 
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CS-SignSupply-TT

New Member
which aqueous printer?

Cmiller01 said:
Hi All,
We are looking to buy a printer with pretty good color output, just to print on standard paper, that is at least 36" wide. We are using a HP Designjet 500 right now and the color is less than vibrant. We mainly use it for black and white elevations in our office area, which it is more than fine for, but now that we are doing our own design concepts and presenting them to potential clients and we want to be able to present something that has some vibrant color, right now it just looks dull.
So right now, we just want something at least 36" wide if not more, with better color output. New or Used but in good condition. Any suggestions would be helpful. We can only print 24" wide on the current printer.
We do alot of presentations that are at least 36" x 48" . Thanks!
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I would suggest demoing the
HP http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF02a/18972-18972-3328061.html?dnr=1
Canon iPF http://www.oceusa.com/main/product_...older_id=2534374302165353&bmUID=1334176083430
Epson Stylus Pro http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/...sem_icGoogle&gclid=CJrt69DRra8CFUmR7QodgHL3mA
 
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jayhawksigns

New Member
We picked up an ipf8300 last year to do some things similar to what you are wanting. Great printer, got ours through LexJet. But some of our other MM here might sell it too.
 
rjssigns

rjssigns

Active Member
HP Z6200 hands down. 8 color rocket. 1500 square feet per hour. I demo'ed them all with my own files. The Z6200 banged out a 23"x29"@ 720x720 in 1 minute 13 seconds. Epson and Canon are mutts and nobody is going to tell me they have better output either. Heads on the HP are plug and play. About a hundred a pop. Big plus.
Did all the research in preparation for a contract that never materialized. If it comes around a Z6200 will be ordered.
 
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jayhawksigns

New Member
That's why the Z6200 was out of our price range as well. Each printer we looked at printed great, it mainly came down to price and then the features each had.

For the price range we were looking at HP was out because they didn't front load. Liked the Epson but didn't completely like their loading system and the whole head replacement thing. Settled on the Canon on price, ease of loading, heads are user replaceable, and I like the Photoshop print plugin they have.
 
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rcook99

New Member
I can back Tim's thoughts regarding the Canon IPF printers. I have had my IPF8000 44" 12 color printer for around 3 years and have had absolutely NO problems, not even a clogged nozzle.
 
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