choodziopl
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Hello to all reading my topic.
We was running VS540i for three years. Almost 0 issues. We needed an upgrade. First priority - width (to 64 inch), second - speed. We changed it for Oki colorpainter E-64s but its just not working well with us. We need to change it again. These are the only options we can choose from:
We need to decide between Rolands:
VG 640 , RF 640 and maybe EJ 640.
We print mainly on monomeric Vinyl, laminate it (same day, no drying time, never had problems) and mount on a foam or acm board. One day its just few prints, the other non stop production 1-2 x 50 m roll. Mosty 8x4 prints. We would like to stick to Cmykcmyk as it was working well. More colors means more inks to store and more color matching problems, we simply dont want anything other than 2xCMYK. We dont need print and cut as we want to buy stanalone plotter some time after and we dont use contour often at all.
-Vg intrigues me as a modern product (untested). Not sure about real time speeds for an 8x4 print in standard mode. Oki was disturbingly self cleaning often, worried its the same case here. I didnt mind making manual maintenance once a week before. Prefer that than sudden self maintanance which cant be interrupted. Is it really wasting a lot of ink? I dont feel positive about that but opinion comes just from the internet.
-RF well looks not much as a step forward from VS. Dont know how it compares to the rest. I liked VS540i just the speed seems too slow in comparison to others.
-EJ is my most favorite (speeds) but im not sure how much the EJ inks differ from good ol EcoSolMAX2. Looks simillar to the VS but not so futuristic as VG. Sounds like a perfect choice in between but maybe im horribly wrong?
Any users of those? What are the annoying bits? Do you have lots of wrinkled media after print, lets say 30 min - 1 hr rest and printing again? That was rhe case with VS ( lower room temp )
Is the take up unit same or different than VSi? Any feedback welcome. Thanks!
We was running VS540i for three years. Almost 0 issues. We needed an upgrade. First priority - width (to 64 inch), second - speed. We changed it for Oki colorpainter E-64s but its just not working well with us. We need to change it again. These are the only options we can choose from:
We need to decide between Rolands:
VG 640 , RF 640 and maybe EJ 640.
We print mainly on monomeric Vinyl, laminate it (same day, no drying time, never had problems) and mount on a foam or acm board. One day its just few prints, the other non stop production 1-2 x 50 m roll. Mosty 8x4 prints. We would like to stick to Cmykcmyk as it was working well. More colors means more inks to store and more color matching problems, we simply dont want anything other than 2xCMYK. We dont need print and cut as we want to buy stanalone plotter some time after and we dont use contour often at all.
-Vg intrigues me as a modern product (untested). Not sure about real time speeds for an 8x4 print in standard mode. Oki was disturbingly self cleaning often, worried its the same case here. I didnt mind making manual maintenance once a week before. Prefer that than sudden self maintanance which cant be interrupted. Is it really wasting a lot of ink? I dont feel positive about that but opinion comes just from the internet.
-RF well looks not much as a step forward from VS. Dont know how it compares to the rest. I liked VS540i just the speed seems too slow in comparison to others.
-EJ is my most favorite (speeds) but im not sure how much the EJ inks differ from good ol EcoSolMAX2. Looks simillar to the VS but not so futuristic as VG. Sounds like a perfect choice in between but maybe im horribly wrong?
Any users of those? What are the annoying bits? Do you have lots of wrinkled media after print, lets say 30 min - 1 hr rest and printing again? That was rhe case with VS ( lower room temp )
Is the take up unit same or different than VSi? Any feedback welcome. Thanks!
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