I am in the market for a new printer to replace my aging AZ180. I was considering the 100s but after reading through some of these posts, I'm not so sure.
So the question is, given what you know now would you buy the 100s again? Is there any advantage, other than paying more for ink, to wait for the introduction of the DJ 10000?
hindsight is a great thing and the answer is still yes.
seiko have taken the proven 64s and just made it wider and a bit more versitile. the only downside is it takes a bit longer the sort out the media feed compared to the 64s but if you do it manually you still only lose 300mm max in media.
Despite all the problems with heads, media tracking, etc you would still purchase this machine? Why? Quality is that great? Operating costs are low? I'm just curious.
Would there be any alternative machines you would consider in the same size and price range?
I wish we would have gotten another 64S, the 100S is just a little bit too much machine for our little shop. The owner wanted the 100S so we could do 8' banner, but we're not really set up for this in any way. There simply isn't enough room to work on giant banners. Anyway, that is not the fault of the machine.
It just comes down to what you really want to use it for. If you don't have the space to work on huge banners or the volume to run the dual roll, then you'd be better off with the 64S. Both are really solid machines. The problems you see talked about here are pretty minor or can be fixed in the overall scope of things.
If you are used to working on the 180, you're going to love the Seiko. The daily maintainence on the Seiko is relatively easy and only takes about 10 minutes. It's a very clean system compared to the 180. It's going to be a lot faster for you as well.
Bdigital wrote: Thanks for the reply. I had thought about the 64s(HP9000) but other than improved quality there isn't another huge advantage over the AZ180 that I currently run. .
in that way you can compare any printer...
better quality (in this case 2 times better quality) and greater speeds (in this case again 2 times and more faster machine) are prime things which you are observing (watching) when buying new machine... then when you have all that you compare costs...
I worked on 180 and I know what pain in the ass that machine was.
64s is 10 times greater machine...
sorry, but I couldn't pass this and not to say anything on that...
How do the Seiko machines handle large solid blocks of color?? I'm running a job right now that is basically a solid color background with some type knocked out and it's not looking fantastic.
but if you have any kind of fault on printer, like problem with older version of heads (that have air leak problem) or similar, you could have problems...
but basically (most of the time) printouts are perfect...
