Color Printers
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- sseo
We run a small design shop and we need to buy a new printer. We don't necessarily need it to be archival quality, but just something we can use to print mock-ups at larger than 8.5"x11".
In the past, we wouldn't have considered laser, but it seems like they are more economic than inkjet nowadays.
Interested in what you guys are using, and what you're using it for, and just suggestions in general.
- pango0
^ it does print 13x19 boarder less. but eats a lot of ink. Great for printing colour photograph. Really nice colour. It even print on printable Disk. But if you are gonna do many revisions of mock ups, it might not be the best economic printer. 6 colour individual cartridges. each cost about $21 to $24 bucks.
- I've done packaging mock up with it. the colour is superb. if that's what you want.pango
- randommail0
Epson definitely is the most popular brand with design studios.
Your choice will likely be between the R2880 for $500
or the Pro 3880 for $1300.If you do mock-ups, then the larger 3880 is very nice.
- vaxorcist0
i have an R2400, it's great
My old R1800 was often printing blanks, after a long delay....
EPSON = Eventually Printing Something Or Nothing
- nthkl0
If you have budget to lease a Canon Fiery that'd be the fastest way to print under hard deadlines. Just don't get into a hard 10 year lease like some dumb ass IT managers do. Go for the 3 year buy out option.
- hans_glib0
The only word of warning I'd have about using inkjets is that litho printers can find it hard to match the output in terms of saturation. This can lead to client disappointment with the finished job. We changed to a laser because we were always running into this problem.
- sseo0
Thanks for the suggestions... will mull over