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We've used machines from China with good success and the outlay is usually £2-3k. Inks are incredibly cheap even when factoring in the shipping etc. ...

There's a lot of videos at the moment because a couple of low cost machines have been launched, the price isnt the barrier it once was. However as...

I am in the same situation as GoldRapt, Youtube ticking away in the background and thinking "Another video on.........?" froggy, that makes sense...

I use a semi flexible ink on my machines, I bought my first machine to print onto leather, but other products got in the way and we didnt print...

We have done in the past yes.

I wonder if anyone is doing uv printing with flexible inks?

No no, I should have been clearer.

cool, as i said. Bein dumb :-)

No, the towels are dye sublimation, different system. Photo was just to show you the glass and slate :-)

Fascinating, being dumb here you print fabric like cushions/towels with hard inks that dont flex?

We print CMYK+White+Varnish and can layer yes. 3D would refer the the laminated stickers. We only use hard inks now which don't flex.

Does that include layerd uv or as some call it UV3D

We print towels, cushions etc. as we primarily print textiles. The UV will print onto most flat (or slightly curved) surfaces, woods, plastics,...

Interesting, and you can print on books, and is that towels?

We now have a Mutoh UV printer having had a few Chinese sourced machines. Yes, we print directly onto glass with ours. Photo attached of a couple...

Nice to see you're still here. :)

Try sublimetals

Our HP stitch is VERY fast at printing, but unfortunately the quality (resolution) is not good enough for hard surfaces, only fabrics

Just offline whilst I do some background work, will send link asap

Ohh go on... I am nosey.:wink:

Thank you for the feedback. Obviously early stages but seems to be running well on the whole.....if I can stop breaking it lol :-)

So the new forum looks fresh, bright and clean, I've posted three posts, ist with a spelling error so I could test the delete post function, first...

Yes please Justin, Id like a nose round the new premises :-)

OK, things took a different direction. I am moving the Forum platform completely right now. I needed to update the old software for security...

I came to the same conclusion when I tried it years ago. I had a wide format Epson and then the Ricoh 3110 doing mugs. So it appears not much...

We find printing onto mug sized paper saves a lot of time. That said, the quickest way would be to get someone else to do them all! Happy to work...