A3 Pigment Ink Printer

[RoyLittle0]

Hi all,
I am looking for a low cost Pigment ink printer for small amounts of vinyl printing, for Doming keyrings etc, a maximum A3 size, are there any small format printers available that use Pigment inks

I have looked at the Epson Stylus R1800 but cant seem to find any information on if they are pigment or Dye inks.

Any pointers gratefully received

[neilb]

Official Epson R1800 inks are pigment.

[RoyLittle0]

Thanks neilb

I am looking for a printer at the moment, do you know of any other makes, models of printer that are also pigment, or you can use pigment in?

[neilb]

List of pigment based printers here, I think the Epson C series are probably the cheapest option if you can still find any about.

[neilb]

Having said that, the WorkForce WF-2010W uses Durabrite inks which are pigment.

[RoyLittle0]

Thanks neilb

That's a real big help, gives me some options

[rossdv8]

This is based solely on my personal experience and others might have different experience.

You might have noticed that BROTHER printers are not on that list. A lot of people on this forum like Brother printers and I use Epson pigment inks in my Brother A3 printers. It is NOT a good idea! The Brother printers I have do NOT play nicely with pigment inks.

Having said that, I have a reason to use Brother and a need for pigment. It is a case of doing a nozzle check before every use and expecting the odd clogged nozzle fairly often 'during' a print run.

If you are using one of the MFC DW series (like MFC-6510DW), never turn the thing off between uses. Leave it on 24/7. It will periodically do a head clean. For some reason, when my printers do this it is some time around 1am. This will help a little with keeping the nozzles serviceable.

But in my experience over the years, Pigment inks and Brother printers are not a happy partnership.

Brother printers do however run very nicely on Epson Dye Sub Inks - but again, leave them turned ON 24/7.