Decision to take Mimaki

Need your opinion to the purchasing plans (Mimaki)

I am about to take the final decision. I know what I want to print (high resolution scanned fine art and pictures on canvas and paper and car wraps, maybe also some Vinyl banners). I also know what printer brand I need (due to the service problems): Mimaki. For the car wraps I would opt for the Mimaki CJV30-160 Printer Cutter, because of the integrated cutter. For the fine art reproduction I would opt for Mimaki JV5-320S, having fool flexibility in the dimensions and being able to print at widened dimensions as the competition can.
I am still not so sure regarding the ink. There is this sepiax ink on resin base (for the fine art reproduction)... I have read the FLAAR report and it sounds great. For the car wraps I need an ink that offers also metallic ink.

My questions would be first, to those who have experience with Mimaki, what do you think about my choice regarding both, printers and ink.
Thank you in advance for your feedback.

 

can i ask what influenced your decision of mimaki over roland

 

First of all, because of the service conditions in the area where the machines will be installed. Also I have read many forum threads with operators from the print business having different brands and when it comes to compare Mimaki with Roland or Mutoh or Epson, they all write unanimously the same, that Mimaki, runs for years, and runs, and runs, with not much headache, service, etc. The second important influence is that I consider using Sepiax ink for the fine art canvas print and Sepiax is optimized for printheads Epson DX4 and DX5, as can be found in Mutoh, Roland DG and Mimaki printers. I consider this ink has a bright future, since it doesn't contain hevy metalls and is so universal from the materials point of view. Canvas do not need any preparation, etc. However, for the fine art Canvas prints, I am not sure if the Mimaki JV5-320S is the best choice from all the Mimaki printers. I was hoping I would find someone here that would give me some feedback to this.

 

i asked because i too was once pondering which machine to get, out of the two. I still havent got one by the way.
a good place to find info though is uksignboards. google it very helpful people on there from all over the world

 

Indeed, I have googled for a forum that gave me the feeling of a place where I could receive the missing information, but it seems there aren't so many Mimaki owners out there or they are to shy to reply We'll see...

 

www.uksignboards.co.uk
i think this is the web address

 

Great link, thank you very much!

 

Try : www.signs101.com

That's a BIG community over there