Custom poster sized printing

Discussion in 'Large Format Inkjet Printers' started by anchange, Jan 31, 2009.

  1. anchange

    anchange New Member

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    Hello everyone, sorry for the newbie post but any info would be really helpful. I work for a company that’s considering getting some kind of large printer to do single prints of movie poster kinda sized documents at full color (basic poster quality). Will be used like posters indoors on walls. We’d be using it every day most likely but wouldn’t be printing the same thing very often. What direction should I be looking? Large format inkjet? Laser jet? Something else? Aqueous, Solvent, UV? Price is an issue too (of course)…

    Any help would be appreciated. If you could just push me in the right direction that would be awesome.

    THANKS!
     
  2. Guru

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    Start small and work from there.
    Aqueous is cheap and prints excellent quality but for indoor only.
    Solvent machine is in the next price bracket and is slightly more expensive to run. Quality is excellent for outdoor good for indoor.
    U.V is an expensive machine $100,000us start price excellent for outdoor good indoor and requires a fulltime operator.
    Laser is not what you want.

    I recommend you look at the quality of solvent if it is acceptable for your target market it would be your best.
    This will alow you to tape into other markets. If the quality is not upto scratch go for Aqueous.

    Machines to buy
    solvent - Roland sj645 or newer, HP 9000
    Aqueous - HP Designjet Z3100
     
  3. michalina

    michalina New Member

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    Lajer jet is good in service.and speed is also fast then others.
     

  4. Printbuzz

    Printbuzz Previous User

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    Printing lots of posters

    Try inkjet with CISS and avoid cartridges altogether. If you have an inkjet printer and you’re brainstorming how to cut down on the monstrous cartridge expenses, it is worth considering CISS (continuous ink supply). You do not need to buy cartridges every time the ink ends up & your printer will print 15 times longer before you need to refill. You can print several thousand pages before you refill, quality is very high
     
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