New Epson Wide Format Sublimation Solution
I have been in the sublimation world for 13 years with many more years before that in the graphic arts. This is my chosen field because I have a love for the beautiful things that are created using the production tools that are now available. The results justify the efforts and expense to produce them. I am not particularly a creative person so my world is to help those who are creative, produce the results they expect. I was offered a position to help start a company to sell sublimation inks, paper, printers, etc. I said what on earth is sublimation? As soon as I saw the end products, I was flabbergasted on the vibrant colorful products that can be made with sublimation. When I started in this business, digital sublimation was in the dark ages with desk top office ink jet printers (think Epson 3000 or Epson 850) producing the bulk of the sublimation transfers for personalized product decoration. Larger projects were made with electrostatic (gasp!) printers that were broken more than they were printing.
The first wide format ink jet sublimation printers were also a challenge with the printer companies not supporting sublimation inks in them and they were very, very, very slow. The inks worked but ink companies had trouble making consistent inks from batch to batch. Sometimes an entire batch of 1 or 2 colors would kill print heads at multiple customer sites. Recalling inks and replacing print heads was a huge and expensive headache and further slowed the growth of sublimation production. Sublimation production companies had to learn fast on how to maintain and repair their own printers to keep them running or pay to have a technician on call in case of a break down. Who was to pay for all these problems? The ink company, or the printer manufacturer, or the distributor, or the end user was always a big problem back then. A lot of finger pointing was going on so no one was truly happy with those old solutions.
Thankfully, over the years, inks have improved, paper technology is much better, RIPs are better and the printers are more robust and reliable than ever before. The sublimation decoration market continues to expand and grow year after year.
Even with all these improvement there is still one thing missing …..
A complete solution from beginning to end with no finger pointing at the other guys when something goes wrong.
Enter the new Epson dye sublimation solution with the full package of printer, inks, paper, RIP software with full Epson tech support. No more finger pointing, no more questions about who’s at fault for the problem. Now isn’t that refreshing!
Ok, Epson so what exactly do you have for us?
The Epson F-6070 44” wide printer and the Epson F-7070 64” wide printer both come with 1.5 liter capacity ink reservoirs. Both printers include a full set of Epson UltraChrome DS inks, the Wasatch RIP, Color Profiles provided by Coastal, and a test roll of paper. The production speed of these printers is around 300 Square feet per hour. Epson has designed these printers from the ground up specifically for dye sublimation printing. The Epson TFP print head is made specially to work with the Epson dye sublimation inks. The low initial cost for the printer packages and very aggressive ink pricing will keep your square foot production costs low. And of course full Epson support.
The EPSON Preferred Limited Warranty:
– One year warranty – printer registration required within 90 days of purchase.
– Next business day on-site service
– Includes priority toll-free technical phone support available Monday through Friday
– Everything is Covered by Epson
– You no longer have to worry about who to call when something goes wrong
– Epson handles all technical and break-fix support
– Optional Extended Warranty is available
If you are ready to upgrade your current sublimation printers or want to take the plunge to add wide format sublimation capability to your current product offering. Check out the deals at www.coastalbusiness.com or call us at 800-562-7760 or you can e-mail me at rfoltz@coastalbusiness.com for quotes and questions.
This is nothing but ad copy from epson. What a waste of space anybody into dye-sub already knows about this printer what we dont know is does it actually do as epson claims? Good luck to all who jumps on this bandwagon, pioneers come back with arrows in their behind
Thank you for reading my blog. Just to let you know that this blog was based on our experiences with the Epson printer in our demo room and with our current Epson customers. These are my words and not “ad copy” from Epson. I will take it as a complement that you think my writing is on par with the professional Epson ad writers (maybe I am in the wrong field!). This IS the first printer, ink, paper combination that all comes from the same source. As with any new platform there are some wrinkles to iron out but on the whole this is a very solid solution for wide format sublimation. Also, I am interested on where you get your information – is it from personal experiences or from a current Epson F-Series user or from the rumors that have been floating out there?