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Hello,

I'm looking at purchasing this printer in the next few weeks.. is there anything I should be aware of. I understand the C711WT works out cheaper long term.. but thats out of my budget atm. The main points I've noted are:

Possible registration issues. - I have a OKI C841 which I'll be using as my CMYK printer.
Image editing - The image needs to be turned into a 'red' image... not sure how easy this would be with complex designs

I have had some samples from Annie and I was happy with the quality..

Any advice/pointers from anyone already using the printer would be great

the challenges of using a white laser as quite conciderable anyhow - and the 2 part media is costly, - from what I have heard the 2 printer system is a poor compromise, even if you use 2 identical printers!

logobear;105016 wrote:the challenges of using a white laser as quite conciderable anyhow - and the 2 part media is costly, - from what I have heard the 2 printer system is a poor compromise, even if you use 2 identical printers!

Is there an alternative to laser to consider please?

Well DTG is an alternative .. but it's more expensive and the printer needs to be used everyday to stop the heads from clogging.

I ended up buying the SunAngel White toner printer in the end ..

omar78;105527 wrote:Well DTG is an alternative .. but it's more expensive and the printer needs to be used everyday to stop the heads from clogging.

I ended up buying the SunAngel White toner printer in the end ..

Fantastic, maybe sometime you could cobble together your thoughts on it as a user please?

Not had chance to test it properly.. only pressed using the white toner.. and was happy with the results. I own a OKI C841 so will test it properly this week.

Been to busy with other things to try it properly, but I had one try with the new ULtrabrite Pro 3 paper. It now says it is good for up to 100 washes. My one test proved OK with a clean peel. Getting a clean peel with the older paper was my biggest problem. Now if the paper was cheaper, as at £170 ish for a box of 100 sheets it still a tad expensive.
Anyways will try and print something this week and post an image.

Well I decided to do a test using my OKIC841 and White toner Printer. There is some cracking and a registration issue.

Looks good, Cannot see the cracking.... Registration is a little bit of a problem. What I have seen on some videos is to contract the white layer in Photoshop a few points smaller than the colour layer so there is no bleed through of the white.

Thanks KathG. I followed a video guide by TTP on youtube.. I did contract the image but only by a 3 pixels.. instead of the 6 on the video. Don't really want to contract the white ink too much.

The cracking is visible on the colours.. do I need to use a lint roller before applying?

I will do some more testing on the registration by

Printing out a box outline on my colour printer
Print it on the white printer using the Black only..

It may just be that I need to move the red layer around by a few pixels..