For those looking for a high-end, UV-curable machine, you should check out the ColorSpan 9840uv flatbed. It's pretty rad! A customer of mine in Seattle had the first one ever installed this week and the output is phenomenal! 4-color, 800 sq/ft per hour, substrates up to 2.75" thick, unbelievable! Custom tiles, MDO plywood, acrylic, anything and everything with the lowest ink cost per sq/ft and operational cost of any UV-flatbed on the market for under $150k.
Keep your eyes on Gerber Solara my friend..........UV Flatbed using CMYK Violet & Green to give you a wider colour Gamut for reproducing spot colours and it's under £40K....yeah £40K.You can have 2 of these at that price... See the SELL SELL SELL forum for a better look at this machine.
HP9000s Salesman wrote: Keep your eyes on Gerber Solara my friend..........UV Flatbed using CMYK Violet & Green to give you a wider colour Gamut for reproducing spot colours and it's under £40K....yeah £40K.You can have 2 of these at that price... See the SELL SELL SELL forum for a better look at this machine.
yeah, man, that's a nice piece of news, but it's still worthless for me. what i need is, as i said previously, a UV machine with white and preferably varnish. It's nice that Gerber has Violet and Green there, but if it doesn't print white, then i don't want it. I'm a screen printer.
ColorSpan is a good machine, the only problem is that chip protecting it from use of third party inks is too sophisticated, so users are PUNISHED by paying too much for original inks.
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Totally disagree. The OEM inks are cheaper per sq/ft than most UV-curable devices on the market ($.18 per sq/ft), so a 3rd party system is a moot point. Maybe as UV becomes more commoditized, costs will go down and bulk systems will appear, but for the time being, who cares if you have to use proprietary ink, it's still frickin cheap to operate!
If you want to use an alternative ink with the following printers: Colorspan 72uvr, 98uvr, 98uvx ColorSpan 5440uv is now HP Designjet H35100 ColorSpan 5460uv is now HP Designjet H35500 ColorSpan 5445uv is now HP Designjet H45100 ColorSpan 5465uv is now HP Designjet H45500 ColorSpan 9840uv is Now HP Scitex FB910
You could have the 100% chip for them on e-bay.com. (simple search "colorspan")
If you want to use an alternative ink with the following printers: Colorspan 72uvr, 98uvr, 98uvx ColorSpan 5440uv is now HP Designjet H35100 ColorSpan 5460uv is now HP Designjet H35500 ColorSpan 5445uv is now HP Designjet H45100 ColorSpan 5465uv is now HP Designjet H45500 ColorSpan 9840uv is Now HP Scitex FB910
You could have the 100% chip for them on e-bay.com. (simple search "colorspan")
