Advantage Sign Supply Spotlight

Both the T81 and T83 cartridges for HP 5000 and HP 5500 series printers are designed to be a direct replacement for HP’s OEM cartridges. These 680ml cartridges are chemically compatible and color compatible which means these inks can be used with existing color profiles. Switch over is fast and easy, no flush is required. These inks are manufactured in small batches ensuring high quality control, and very good shelf life. These inks are very high quality with pricing that is competitive compared to OEM.

Please note that a quick web-search for cartridge ink for HP 5000/ 5500 printers will yield results with lower pricing than Triangle, but buyers need to be aware the many of the low priced OEM inks on the web are often expired, or do not specify expiration dates. There are also some counterfeit OEM inks being advertised by web-only retailers.

The primary selling advantages for these inks are high quality, guaranteed freshness, very competitive price, and color compatibility with HP’s own ink.
T81 inks, like OEM, are designed for indoor applications while T83 inks offer additional UV stability which allow for short term outdoor applications. Both these inks also feature approval for applications on microporous materials.

Another attractive selling feature is that these inks require no warranty procedure for customers to complete, they simply remove the OEM cartridge and replace it with a Triangle cartridge. Unlike solvent inks from Triangle, these inks will be available to all customers, un-restricted, wishing to order these inks on the web-store, advantagesignsupply.com.

T81—6 color

7625     Black 680ml cartridge
7636    Cyan 680ml cartridge
7637    Light Cyan 680ml cartridge
7638     Light Magenta 680ml cartridge
7639     Magenta 680ml cartridge
7640    Yellow 680ml cartridge

T83—6 color

7624    Black 680ml cartridge
7636    Cyan 680ml cartridge
7619    Light Cyan 680ml cartridge
7621    Light Magenta 680ml cartridge
7622    Magenta 680ml cartridge
7623    Yellow 680ml cartridge

Uvijet ZE Adhesion Promoters

Advantage Sign Supply is proud to present the Sericol’s family of adhesion promoters (primers) which are designed to address particular challenges of UV ink adhesion printed on rigid substrates. Uvijet adhesion promoters are applied to the substrates prior to printing. When applied per the manufactures guidelines, these products can be used as pre-cleaner and as a surface prep that modifies the substrate surface to achieve a higher ink bond. There are several different Uvijet ZE products that are designed to improve printing results based on substrate type as seen in the below chart.

Product Features:

Uvijet ZE 680- Optically clear, fast drying designed to promote greater adhesion to plastic materials such as glossy PVC and acrylics.

Uvijet ZE 720- Optically clear, slow drying (5-15 minutes) time promotes greater adhesion to corrugated material (polyolefin).

Uvijet ZE 1000- Optically clear, fast drying time promotes adhesion to a wider range of glossy rigid substrates and PVC.

New Product: Graphtec CE5000-120 AKZ

Product Market Position

Advantage Sign Supply is pleased to present the CE5000-120 AKZ which delivers best in class performance on a variety of automotive customizing media from window tint to paint protection film.

The unit comes installed with extended media brackets and anti–static string for front and rear which reduces the static electricity that is so common with tint films that can restrict media movement. Plus, its high–end servo motor delivers accurate cutting (up to 450g) of heavy materials such as paint protection films—making it the perfect solution to any tint and paint protection shop that wants to explore the vehicle graphics world. Each unit also includes: extended media roll rack, floor stand, dual media catch basket for dust-free cutting, anti-static string, and specially designed window tint blade holder.

Key Product Features:

• ARMS — Graphtec’s Automatic Registration Mark Sensor system is the laser/optical eye which reads multiple registration mark patterns on pre-printed media to obtain accurate contour cutting for the production of decals, stickers, heat transfer and packaging in the print and cut operation. This system especially benefits those who have a need for contour cutting of longer prints. The ARMS system is designed to compensate for media mis-alignment, material expansion/contraction, and the common media shifting that occurs during the printing process. These intelligent features assure users of unsurpassed accuracy and reliable operation for even the most intricate contour cutting applications.

• Kiss Cut — To cut vinyl through up to its backing material. This cutting method is also useful for contour cutting of printed materials such as stickers. When contour cutting printed stickers/vinyl, you can combine a Kiss Cut with a Perf Cut in the same cut job: This combination results in individual stickers Cut Thru with a Kiss Cut inside for that perfect peel away finish.

• Perf Cut — Also known as “Cut Thru” is the method used to contour cut pre-printed decals/stickers completely through the media without damaging the cutting plotter blade or cutting plotter itself.

Cutting Speeds:

Max cutting speed     100cm/s (40”/s)

Adjustable               1-60 cm/s (5cm/s step)

Pen Pressure 450g (variable), 20-450g (38 levels)

Sheet Thickness up to .25mm (.01”)

Software:

• Cutting Master 2, Graphtec’s proprietary software that allows users to work directly from Adobe Illustrator© and /or CorelDraw©

• ROBO Master Pro, design software (Windows 2000/XP/Vista)

Product Compatability

Window tint, paint protection film, vinyl film, fluorescent, decal, light reflective (except high-luminosity), paint masking, banner, thermal/heat transfer flex, flock, image transfer media, printable vinyl media, etc.

Product Application

• Cut Window Tint

• Cut Paint Protection Film

• Cut Vinyl

• Cut Heat Transfer

• Contour Cut Pre-Printed Stickers & Graphics

New Release:
Mimaki CG-SRII series cutting plotters

• CG-100SRII (49.2” max sheet width)
• CG-130SRII (61” max sheet width)

Product Overview

Advantage Sign Supply is pleased to release the CG-SRII cutter line which are set at an excellent price point with many features found on their production level cutter/plotters, overall these plotter are a tremendous value. These units are very competitively priced and offer many of the features of the CG-FXII line, but in a lightweight affordable package.

Note: The CG-100SRII only accepts material with a maximum width of 49.2”

Product Features

• Continuous crop mark detection function to make precise contour cutting of nested images printed by printers. With the unique Half-cut function, the backing sheet can be cut, leaving a few connection points, which hold the image in place after cutting. When finished the backing sheet can be easily detached.

• RSC function (Real time Stroke Control) detects cutting stroke during cutting and adjusts variance of the strokes, which maintains constant cutting pressure, eliminating uncut portion of the media.

• The Over-cut function makes starting and ending point overlapped, which eliminates uncut portion of the media.

• The plotters include FineCut 7: Plug-in cutting software for CorelDRAW and Illustrator for professional sing making and SimpleCut, easy-to-use application software.

Cutting Speeds:

Max cutting speed: 85cm/s (33.5”/s)

Adjustable:

1-10 cm/s: 1cm step adjustment (0.39”-3.94”/s 39”step)

10-60 cm/s: 5 cm step adjustment (3.94”-23.6” step)

Pen Pressure 400g (variable)

• Cutter 10-400g
• Pen 10-150g

Sheet Thickness up to .25mm (.01”)

Software:

• Fine Cut 7 (included)

Product Compatability

• Vinyl
• Fluorescent Vinyl
• Reflective Sheet

Product Application

• Vinyl Graphics
• Pre-printed transfer media
• Masking film
• Vehicle graphics

Advantage Sign Supply Product Release

New Product:
Mimaki JFX-1631

Key Product Features:

* No media deformation

- The new UV LED curing technology does not emit infrared rays thus eliminating thermal deformation of media. The UV LED technology enables print on heat sensitive media such as acrylic and styrene panels. Due to its low operation temperature, users have a broader choice of media. This results in the creation of new and exciting applications on up to 50 mm thick substrates.

* No drying time

- UV LED curing means instantaneous drying that eliminates post-printing drying time necessary when printing with aqueous or solvent inks. This innovation leads to dramatic reduction of job turnaround time (from printing to processing) and increase in productivity.

* Intelligent Microstepping System (IMS) for more precise printing up to legible 3

point characters. More precise, high quality prints. The newly developed head positioning mechanism uses high resolution linear scale for fi ne step accuracy of dot placement. This results in far fewer banding and even the possibility to print legible 3 point characters.

* ECO-friendliness

- JFX-1631, a highly specified UV LED curable flatbed inkjet printer is also environmentally friendly. Its UV LEDs have a longer lifetime and save about 2/3 in energy in comparison with conventional UV printers employing metal halide lamps.

* Faster operation

UV LEDs do not need any warm-up time. They can be switched on and off whenever needed. With 8 new high-speed heads, JFX-1631 enables users to print twice as fast as with Mimaki’s JF Series, achieving a dramatic increase in productivity and a reduction of job turnaround time.

* 7 different dot sizes

- Maximum resolution of 1200 dpi and variable dot technology (7 different dot sizes) realise near photographic image quality. Even printing in 4-colour mode realises a non-grainy print. With a minimum dot size of 6 pl, sharp edges of small texts and smooth skin tones can be created.

* Flexible and hard UV inks are available, including white and clear varnish

Benefits:

• Unique Solvent-based Chemistry Developed by Epson
• Extremely Wide Color Gamut using Eight Colors (CMYK+Lc+Lm+Orange+Green)
• Professional Outdoor Permanence Ratings
• Prints on Virtually any Solvent-based Media Type – Coated and Uncoated
• Superior Scratch Resistance from Improved Solvent Chemistry
• Faster Dry Times Eliminates the Need for External Dryers
• Virtually Odorless Printing with Less Harmful Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s)
• No Special Ventilation or Air Puri!cation Systems Required
• No Use of Nickel (Ni) Compounds – a Recognized Carcinogen
• Reduced Chemical Irritants Minimizes Special Handling Requirements
• Less Harmful Impact on Worker Health and the Environment

How the PAT Captivair System Works

The PAT Captivair system confines the space where fumes are released and our patented pending design allows for extraction of the fumes across the entire length of the printer directly into the purifier. Captivair consists of a purifier box containing a user-replaceable charcoal filter, a clear plastic hood with a stand, with all necessary hoses and manifolds to connect to the printer. Another benefit of the PAT Captivair system is that an optional Infrared dryer, which accelerates print drying time.