What is your experience with the HP latex printers

[guillermo]

I love the ink, we have a 365 and so far, it has been great, we use Onyx, flexi is installed, but it is complicated for me to use, I stick with Onyx.

 

[ozpall]

At my last job we had a Latex 260 and it was a decent printer the got traded for a 360 which the 360 got better colors and overcoat cartridge, then we got a 365 which is basically the same 360 with minor changes, then we got a 800 series and had trouble with it, it jammed to much and rubbed the media to much, I tried not to use it much; 2 years later we had expired ink on it but still prints, I realized that the drying area was an inch lower on the 800 compared to the 365, I made a jig to where I could print raising the drying module one inch and after that I ran it a lot more, I'm not sure if anyone else had this issue since the people that sold us the 800 could not fix, it is nice to have 3 litter ink on the 800, we did'nt have white ink on it, also the 800 you can turn the overcoat off but not on the 360's

would love to see the Jig, i have the same issue with the 700w jamming and scratching the material specially with perf, banner and gf222 which its "thick" the best thing so far is to crank the vacuum all the way to 100% and crank the inter-pass delay to like 350-400.

 

[Stacey K]

I love mine! I have the 315

 

[BigfishDM]

They are great machines and lots of support available.

 

[Bonzai901]

would love to see the Jig, i have the same issue with the 700w jamming and scratching the material specially with perf, banner and gf222 which its "thick" the best thing so far is to crank the vacuum all the way to 100% and crank the inter-pass delay to like 350-400.

I no longer work at that place but I can try to get you some pictures sometime next week; all it is is a 1'' think block to set on the right side under the curing module to rest on, on the left side you'll need a 1" thick rectangle to the size of the air duct and on the same left side a metallic tab to trigger the sensor (witch I stick with double side tape), the printer will show a message saying is not a 100% contact HP but as long it let you print is good,

 

[ozpall]

I no longer work at that place but I can try to get you some pictures sometime next week; all it is is a 1'' think block to set on the right side under the curing module to rest on, on the left side you'll need a 1" thick rectangle to the size of the air duct and on the same left side a metallic tab to trigger the sensor (witch I stick with double side tape), the printer will show a message saying is not a 100% contact HP but as long it let you print is good,

ok cool, if you happen to get a pic that would be great!
thank you.

 

[Bonzai901]

would love to see the Jig, i have the same issue with the 700w jamming and scratching the material specially with perf, banner and gf222 which its "thick" the best thing so far is to crank the vacuum all the way to 100% and crank the inter-pass delay to like 350-400.

I got some pictures here

 

[ozpall]

I got some pictures here

thank you much!

 

[TEN]

We ran a 360 for 7 years, then went to a 700W. The 360 proved to be a reliable printer, many things we liked and a few things we did not but learned work arounds. The 700 has addressed the issues, mainly dimensional stability of prints that were an issue with the 360. We have had techs out a couple of times for the 700 and our experiences with the printer have been great.

 

[Wide Image Solutions]

We have a 8.5 year old HP 360 Latex, it's been great. Has been under warranty since we bought it. However this year we have had to use that warranty on more occasions than not, and it always seems like when we are in the middle of a large project. So looking to upgrade to a newer machine and sell this one while we can. I would like to hear anyones' opinion on the HP 630. 700 and 800 machines. We are not really interested in the white option, seems more trouble than not.

I'd love to hear your take. Thanks!

I would suggest the Hp 630. It is a great unit and customers are very happy with them. We also accept trade ins and we ship everywhere. thx Wideimagesolutions.com

 

[dypinc]

630 - Printheads 5 (1 cyan/black, 1 magenta/yellow, 1 light cyan/light magenta, 1 HP Latex Optimizer , 1 HP Latex Overcoat)

700 - Printheads 8 (2 cyan/black, 2 magenta/yellow, 2 light cyan/light magenta, 1 HP Latex Optimizer , 1 HP Latex Overcoat)

Based on the issues we had with the 300 series and 1 light cyan/light magenta printhead (ink starvation and nozzle redundancy) when it came to color consistency I would take a serious look at what your output expectations are before I would go with the 630.

 

[balstestrat]

630 - Printheads 5 (1 cyan/black, 1 magenta/yellow, 1 light cyan/light magenta, 1 HP Latex Optimizer , 1 HP Latex Overcoat)

700 - Printheads 8 (2 cyan/black, 2 magenta/yellow, 2 light cyan/light magenta, 1 HP Latex Optimizer , 1 HP Latex Overcoat)

Based on the issues we had with the 300 series and 1 light cyan/light magenta printhead (ink starvation and nozzle redundancy) when it came to color consistency I would take a serious look at what your output expectations are before I would go with the 630.

You can see it's only one row now. Not 2-CMYK and 1-light like it used to be on gen3.
It's not a problem on 630.