2020. 3. 6. 08:55ㆍ카테고리 없음
A friend of mine has a couple of large format Agfa Jet Sherpa's surplus to their requirements as they've recently upgraded to 8 colour ones. Not sure exactly what models they are right now, my guess is it's a 43 but it could be a 54? I know they're 4 colour, but he's getting me the specs, taking some pics and popping in later.He's asking £1,200 + VAT each, is this a reasonable price?So what are these Sherpa's like guys? Consumables cheap? Maintainance high?Also, what do I need to look out for on a second hand one? Are the heads likely to need replacing?Any help is appreciated.Steve.
The Sherpa 43 is not an outdoor printer. As it's really a mutoh you can probably get a pigmented based ink-set to run through it. Couple this with some specialty coated media and lamination you maybe able to get a few months outdoors.If you're looking for a printer to to stickers, adhesives, banners, etc. Then this probably won't meet many of your expectations.If you're looking at getting into trade show graphics such as pop-up displays and roll-up displays this would be a nice little entry level machine with good resolution and colour.IIRC correctly, Agfa was originally pushing this system with their own RIP and colourmanagement solution as a digital proofing system to compete with the ever so flaky IRIS by Scitex (Creo, now Kodak). The colourmanagement with the RIP system and included spectrophotometre was suprisingly good.
I went for a demo a few years back and I thought it was a great little rig. But the purpose of the machine even then was never to be an outdoor printer.Rob.
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Yowzer wrote.Now there was also a HP Designjet looking thing in the photos he took and he's getting back to me on what model it is and a price for that.Same story. Different vendor.
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The HP 2000/3000 series and the 5000/5500 series printers will give you an option of running dye or pigmented inks. Like the Sherpa 43 they are aquious systems which are not appropriate for any type of long term outdoor work even with the pigmented inks.If you want outdoor you need eco-solvent, mild-solvent, true-solvent, thermal resin, or UV curable. Chances are you won't find any of this stuff at fire-sale prices. Sorry.You may be able to find a used Roland 500 series eco-solvent for about 4500 of your pounds somewhere. Might not be a bad entry level system.