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Hello all, Just wanted to know what is the best ink and paper to use with a Brother Printer A3? (MFC-J4610DW) I'm only doing this for a friend who is an artist and would like to expand his sales range. Any help would be great,, I am aware I will need to upgrade the colour profile so it prints the right colours,, This Forum is great btw.

Been using brother printers since we started....abit with a little teething ( hair pulling ) moments ( and still ongoing :rolleyes:)....but cant find a better printer in terms or DPI / usability / price / warranty ect....
we been using xpres sub papers since we started, and cant fault them in any way - good sub paper, but we have just imported new sub paper from the states, so are testing that out just now....

think paul is on the cards for a profile for it.....

inks, well....depends who you talk to..
the ones who "go with the flow" will tell you use sawgrass inks as its easier for a newbie to get going...and it is.....
Again, we import all our sub inks from the states in 5 litre containers ( 5l per colour) - this works out way, way cheaper long term, when you consider 4 colors of sawgrass inks are about £260-£350 for 4x100ml or there abouts, pending where you buy them - but if you just starting up, importing your inks, might just be a tad heavy on the ol wallet !!

but def look into it once you are going for a while and you are turning over the stock to warrant that kind of outlay will save you lot of £'s

you can get cheaper sub inks on dare i say it....cough, ebay...not ALL are rubbish, contrary to what others may tell you but....thats a whole diff ball game again....also depends if you have the cash to "waste" if the inks are crap - remember, your inks / paper are the heart of sub printing....your printing/customer reputation depends you you getting it right !

oh, and get the extra large refillable ( 80ml ) carts for your brother printer/s...save you lot hassle.

just my 10cents worth...not all will agree but hey ho

looks like the sample papers i got from the states are ...well.....rubbish :rolleyes:

had word with paul, he had similar prob with blacks not coming out right ( mottled ) with the cheap chinese stuff.....

good job i only got 10 packs instead of 100 lol...but, common sense prevailed here....when in dought, buy little first

inks are spot on tho....so at least we got one out of the 2...


looks like we will be sticking with the tried and tested Xpres sub papers @ around £10 per 100

has anyone bought the rolls of sub paper from Xpres ?...and does it work out cheaper than buying like 10 boxes of 100 sheets from them ?

Rolls are really only effective to use on a printer designed to work with roll feed papers - the paper have a curl to them, and are not easy to flatten out to feed through a printer expecting flat sheets, also the time it takes to cut down to sheet size would eliminate any economy of the price per page being cheaper. If you want to use wide format papers and inks, then the best way is to get a wide format printer.

pisquee;83336 wrote:Rolls are really only effective to use on a printer designed to work with roll feed papers - the paper have a curl to them, and are not easy to flatten out to feed through a printer expecting flat sheets, also the time it takes to cut down to sheet size would eliminate any economy of the price per page being cheaper. If you want to use wide format papers and inks, then the best way is to get a wide format printer.

prob better off than the 4 sodding brother printers we have now tbh.....but, thats a whole diff ball game altogether going down that route....more maintenance ect :rolleyes:

Yup, we gave up trying to use home/office printers for our sublimation, and never looked back after going wide format. Also, the same for ditching Sawgrass' consumer inks, and getting industrial inks to go with the printer.
We bought used wide formats, in the knowledge that they would be too expensive to repair/service when they stopped working, and we would just replace them with another used printer, as it would be cheaper than getting them repaired - essentially run them into the ground and write them off when they die, or flog them back on Ebay for parts.
The only real servicing we do is wiping down the print head, capping station and wiper blade every so often as they get a bit gunged up with the dust from it cutting the paper after each print