By dddewberry71 on
Jan. 14, 2008
Just Starting new business and would like some currnet ideas and suggestions on which type of printer i need. laser or jet??? vellum or ???? any information greatly appreciated. this will be a small business ran out of my home so would like to keep cost down. thanks...fellow printers.
Re: printers?????
If you want to keep the cost down...go with a Laser printer. The cost of supplies is less than an Ink-Jet. And never use Vellum...use clear laser films. After you print your film positive, with a Laser, just mist on a thin coat of "Toner-Aid" and the toner will be very black.
Ink-Jets work very well, but need special inks, films and software. By the time you buy all that once, you could supply a Laser multiple times. The software is a "Rip" software that makes the Ink-Jet print half-tones like a post script laser printer. And if you don't already know...half-tones is a must for blending colors, shading and doing Four-Color-Process.
The only Ink-Jets that work with Rip software are Epson printers. All post script Lasers will produce half-tones. So why buy Graphic Art software then a Rip software? That will double your cost right there. I've used both Laser and Ink-Jet and found the cost of using a Laser well under the others cost.
Go onto E-Bay and look at some printers. I've seen some very good prices for large format Lasers. Try to find one like a (Gcc Technologies Elite 20/600 XL). It will print up to 13 X 18 inches, that's one of the sizes the films come in. It is also the same thing as an Exante' Screen-Writer printer, only it is about half the cost. I'm pretty darn sure Gcc makes the printer and Exante' puts their name on it and sells it to Screen-Printers, at a much higher cost... because they say "made just for screen-printing".
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