Can the wide format printers do Vinyl printing and if so why have we not before ? I’d be willing to help see what all we would need
Water based inkjet printing has a hard time printing to Vinyl because it air dry’s and the vinyl doesn’t absorb the ink. Plus, if the print got wet it would run and smear. To print on vinyl you usually need a solvent based ink or a full cure ink like UV printing. I’m not saying that there isn’t a specialty vinyl out there that can be printed to, it just isn’t common enough for me to know about it.
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Attempts at printing onto vinyl with the Epson 7880 have failed terribly.
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