logobear
12-06-2012, 12:53 PM
There is a wave of innovation back to laser printers that can print white (or clear...) toner!
The thinking behind them as I understand it is that white or clear toner can be used to create the mask for self weeding transfere products like WOW or Neenah Papers and Eztrans.
Here is a link to an Oki - seems expensive at near £5k - but being able to print white !
http://eztrans.co.uk/new%20images/OKI%20920%20printer.pdf
Is this really just a 4 colour laser printer with White swapped for the black ? - and a modified RIP ? it does limit the colour gammut as CMY black is not as good as K black.
Also - laser white is not very dense on it's own - so cannot be used to print great whites using white transfere products ......
I understand that there are more similar printers to follow - some as 6 colour machines so you can have 2 or 3 whites to get propper white density, or 2 whites and keep the K black.
Has anyone tried these printers yet, or had a demo.
What are your thoughts ?
I am still looking for the silver bullet that will do great full colour floating artwork on coloured garments - without DTG ..... is this it?
The thinking behind them as I understand it is that white or clear toner can be used to create the mask for self weeding transfere products like WOW or Neenah Papers and Eztrans.
Here is a link to an Oki - seems expensive at near £5k - but being able to print white !
http://eztrans.co.uk/new%20images/OKI%20920%20printer.pdf
Is this really just a 4 colour laser printer with White swapped for the black ? - and a modified RIP ? it does limit the colour gammut as CMY black is not as good as K black.
Also - laser white is not very dense on it's own - so cannot be used to print great whites using white transfere products ......
I understand that there are more similar printers to follow - some as 6 colour machines so you can have 2 or 3 whites to get propper white density, or 2 whites and keep the K black.
Has anyone tried these printers yet, or had a demo.
What are your thoughts ?
I am still looking for the silver bullet that will do great full colour floating artwork on coloured garments - without DTG ..... is this it?