At the end of November, Epson America will ship the GP-C831
pin-fed, inkjet printer. Given the pending
release of this new product, I thought you might find interest in my personal
experience in printing with this new device.
Epson first showed
this printer at Label Expo in September.
You may remember my post covering Label Expo: http://colorlabelsondemand.blogspot.com/2012/09/label-expo-1-epson-family.html.
As I said earlier, I decided to test this new printer
myself. I installed the driver and
loaded the pin-fed media.
These labels were 9.5” wide (including the pin-feed) by 5.5”
long (however, the actual length was 5.625” from perforation to perforation). In the driver, I selected a default setting
for what I thought was the correct size:
Then I set the print resolution; at the normal setting using
plain media and the quality setting.
After confirming the driver configuration, I printed from
Adobe:
And the first labels looked great.
Then I decided to print 10 at once; where I learned that I needed
to have the exact size from perforation to perforation. With the difference in the driver setting
from the actual size, the labels became misaligned. Once I realized that I needed a custom label size,
I went into the driver and set up a new page size; 9.5” x 5.63”. When I printed 10, all worked of the labels
looked perfectly.
In fact, I printed 10, 8” x 5.5” die-cut labels at the
normal setting in 28 seconds. Seemed
pretty fast to me!
After printing the smaller labels, I decided to test larger
labels; 9.5” x 11”. So I changed the
page size of the driver;
And printed. In fact,
I printed 10, 8” x 11” die-cut, poly labels at the normal setting in 45
seconds. Again; pretty good! And the labels looked great!
And here is a video of the printer running.
These labels should work perfectly to meet the GHS requirements. You may have seen my earlier posts covering the Global Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS):
http://colorlabelsondemand.blogspot.com/2012/03/bs5609-is-no-bs.html . BS5609 Certification Info.
http://colorlabelsondemand.blogspot.com/2012/02/un-drives-print-on-demand-color-label.html Oakwood Products
In addition, the GP-C831 may work for other types of
applications; including reports, shipping documents, signs; where end users
want to add color, but at a significant less cost than using color laser
printers.
If you or your customers need labels wider than 4.4”,
consider the GP-C831. Contact me now to
discuss how this printer will fit your application requirements.
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