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Comparing Roland eco-solvent VersaCamm with Mutoh eco-solvent Junior, Mutoh mild-solvent all compared with Encad VinylJet
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Every day sign shop owners send an e-mail to Nicholas Hellmuth at FLAAR asking for an independent perspective on which entry-level eco-solvent printer to go for: Roland VersaCAMM SP 300, Mutoh Junior, or the newer mild-solvent Mimaki printer.
But the real question is more than which eco-solvent printer. Instead the more crucial question is a factual assessment of whether eco-solvent, mild-solvent, or lite-solvent (there are differences: Mimaki and Seiko ColorPainter 64s would be mild-solvent; you could perhaps call the Tiara Opal II a lite-solvent.
FLAAR Reports provide help, info, tips on how to decide on eco-solvent vs full solvent D.G.I., Infiniti, Seiko ColorPainter 64s, Mimaki JV-3, ColorSpan 72s Gator and Gandinnovations JETi
Since there is no other source of reliable factual information (except people trying to sell you one brand or another), we felt it would be useful if FLAAR could also cover solvent and eco-solvent printers. Our last six years we have dedicated ourselves primarily to aqueous-based inks. So from summer 2004 onwards we will cover eco-solvent, mild-solvent, lite-solvent, and full-solvent ink printers with as much dedication as we already cover Epson, Canon, Encad, HP, and all the other aqueous-based wide format printers (with over 100 FLAAR Reports and countless pages on the Internet).
But rather than add another umteen pages to our web sites, we have concentrated our experience into a new series of publications in PDF format on eco-solvent ink printers.
The “Preview” of the Series is free; you can download the Eco-Solvent Preview at no cost . It lists all the new titles and indicates the highlights of each report. You can subsequently obtain the entire series at substantial discount.
Even if you seek only information on, say, the Mutoh Junior, you really ought to get your hands on the entire series of FLAAR Reports.
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| Roland eco-solvent VersaCamm printer at ISA 2008. |
Hewlett-Packard has now introduced their latex ink technology in a new HP Designjet L65500 printer. FLAAR has already inspected a beta test site in Europe and has been trained on latex ink in Israel a month before. Our preliminary report on the HP latex ink is now available, and a report on the printer will be issued as soon as we can spend inspect an advanced beta unit in the future. |
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Most recently updated September 27, 2004.
First posted August 3, 2004.
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| Mimaki JV5 |
| Mimaki JV33 |
| Seiko H-74S, Seiko H-104S |
Eco-Solvent Printers |
| Gerber Jetster |
| Kimoto Philyrassystem |
| Mutoh Phoenix |
| Mild-Solvent
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| Bio-Solvent
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Air Purification Solvent or UV Ink Odors |
| Island Clean Air ICA |
| PAT Technologies |
Solvent Printer IR Dryers |
| Black Body Digi IR Infrared Heaters |
Inks |
| Latex Water-Based Ink replaces Solvent ink |
Interesting inks & |
| UV-Curable ink, OEM (in preparation) |
| UV-Curable, third-party ink Encres Dubuit (others in preparation) |
Fine Art Photography Giclee & Proofing (on other FLAAR sites) |
Epson 4880 |
Epson 7880 |
Epson 9880 |
Most of our updates for 2008 onward are in FLAAR Reports in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. It is more efficient for us to make new information available in PDF format. So if the web page itself is not updated, check out www.wide-format-printers.NET to see if the printer, RIP, or other subject is covered in an update in a PDF download.
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