Hi
I'm looking at putting together a system for UV printing coasters. We dye sub them at the moment but the potentially lower cost of blanks and the relative ease of UV printing is drawing me to a UV printer/laser cutting solution (probably laser cutting blanks and then printing coasters held in a jig). I can also think of lots of others way we might be able to monetise this machinery but they are not that convincing without being able to "crack" the coaster printing. We need to be able to produce around 1,500 a day for a 6 week period (the rest of the year we'll keep it busy with other work):
Anyone got any opinions (good or bad) on any or all of the following:
1.) The small desktop machines by Roland and Mimaki (Roland 200 and 300 and the 3042 and 6042). These look good but I'm worried they would be a bit slow. I'm not sure yet whether I would need to lay down "white", print just CMYK+Varnish or white+CMYK+varnish or just CMYK. I've got a demo tomorrow, so we'll see what the results of this look like!
2.) The much larger Mimaki (JFX200-2513)
3.) Any other machines in either the A2 or "large flat bed" categories that you have good (or bad) personal experiences of.
My primary application will be to flat items, so large depth is not all that exciting. Speed and print quality are my primary concerns (oh and as cheap as possible! :))
Regards
Gary
