HP Stitch S300 64" sublimation printer - I Bought it!!!

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A few weeks/months back I mentioned that HP had managed to develop sublimation ink that work in their bubble jet heads ... We bought one, and it was delivered to us on Tuesday this week.
I gave up faffing about trying to get Epson 11880 machines working with Sublinova - not sure if we had bad luck on the two we bought, or if the DTI ink isn't good for them (Inktec says it should have been fine.) But anyways, we now have a brand new machine, with warranty, and have had brilliant support from RA Smart, with them doing a good job of creating ICC profiles to match quite closely the output we had form our old Epson 9600 machines.
Wow, this machine is fast - even on its slowest/highest quality setting, it's about 10 times as fast the old 9600 printers! We have a massive print queue backlog at the moment due to some FaceBook advertising going way better than expected, and this is going to clear it quite quickly now!

[Justin]

Great news, would love to see a quick video when your workload lies down, maybe even a nice review

[Andrew]

Sounds expensive but also sounds like it will pay itself off in no time. Keep us updated with how it goes.

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Expensive = yes!
Although we did get 30% Funding from local authority/Europe

Although more expensive outlay than an equivalent Epson, they don't have £1000-2000 expensive print heads to replace with an engineer visit - the are couple of £100, and you replace them yourself. Same with the cleaning station - this is a user replaceable drawer unit.

Am gonna miss my InkTec inks though

So far seems OK switching down to 4 colour, although still needs a bit of tweaking - my profiling kit isn't up to the job of doing proper profiles for RIPs, so need to new one.

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Worked out that all the transfers it printed last night (2000-0100) would have taken the best part of a week on the 9600 if just running 0900-1700!

[Andrew]

Worked out that all the transfers it printed last night (2000-0100) would have taken the best part of a week on the 9600 if just running 0900-1700!

That is crazy. Makes me tempted as we are often playing catch-up.

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Here she is

We haven't got carboard tubes yet for using the take-up reel, so this is a table in front of her we're putting the cut transfers on.
Anyone got supplier details for 63" long / 3" diameter tubes?

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It's actually HP's Latex 300 printer repurposed for sublimation

[Mrteajunkie]

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Here she is

We haven't got carboard tubes yet for using the take-up reel, so this is a table in front of her we're putting the cut transfers on.
Anyone got supplier details for 63" long / 3" diameter tubes?

https://www.defendapack.com/Postal_Tube ... 651mm-76mm

[froggy]

Its not until you are under pressure that you really appreciate higher production speed machines. The price will be long forgotten about when you are saving 100's of hours a year in labour costs and sending out more product every week.

Once you go down the quality and speed path there's no going back.