After more than 90 posts on the colorlabelsondemand.com blog, I am
pleased to make two major announcements.
First, I am pleased to introduce Color Label Solutions, LLC (www.colorlabelsolutions.com). Color
Label Solutions is the premier provider of print on-demand color label and tag
components and solutions. With
experience selling and installing print on-demand color in more than 150
companies, no other reseller has more experience deploying these low-cost labeling
solutions.
When you purchase your color label and tag printers from Color Label
Solutions, you’ll get installation support and training to make sure you start
printing quickly and easily. If you need
maintenance, Color Label Solutions will work with you to get the maintenance
support from the manufacturer you require.
In addition, we offer a large variety of labels for the color printers
we sell. Other resellers may sell
labels; but we make sure the labels work well with the printers we sell.
I decided to start Color Label Solutions as I see a tremendous
opportunity in the use of color in producing labels just in time. From history, we know color now accounts for
more than 50% of the desktop printer and copier revenues. I see no reason why on-demand label printers
will not follow the same trend. Lower
cost, durable ink combined with more available media will enable this market to
grow significantly.
With this blog post, you may notice a slight change in the topics
I cover. In the future, my blog posts
will help end users see possible new applications and trends; and how to best
use this technology. I hope to be your
trusted source of information on this topic.
Check out
Website: www.colorlabelsolutions.com
Second, I am pleased to announce the Epson TM-C3500 Color Label
printer. From my testing, I see 3
reasons why this printer is a MAJOR step forward for producing print on-demand
color labels. Reason 1: print quality is
significantly improved. Now with Cyan,
Magenta, Yellow and Black inks, colors are much richer and vibrant. In addition, Epson has more than doubled the
number of inkjet nozzles (1,440) making each droplet smaller which provides
better detail. Finally, Epson has added
the capability for banding reduction, which improves printing labels and tags
with significant coverage of ink.
Overall, the TM-C3500 produces much better image quality, especially at
the lower resolution.
Reason 2: the TM-C3500 is much faster; up to more than 4” per
second. Given the improvement in print quality,
I believe most users will see up to a 5X improvement in speed (when compared to
the TM-C3400 at the highest resolution versus the TM-C3500 at the lowest). With the improved print quality, you will
find the lowest resolution works perfect for most labels. In comparison, the Primera LX 900 prints at
1.8” per second at the normal mode; a 2.2X advantage for the TM-C3500.
Reason 3: ink costs are reduced significantly for the TM-C3500. In fact, the ink costs match the recently
released GP-C831. Lower ink costs
combined with 4 separate cartridges make the TM-C3500 a much less expensive
printer. For most TM-C3400 users, you
will see an ink cost reduction of 50% or more.
For color laser or Primera users, you could see up to a 70% reduction in
ink costs. In my earlier post, you will
see the ink costs are lower than other types of label printers, including
thermal transfer with resin, wax/resin or even some wax only ribbons. http://colorlabelsondemand.blogspot.com/2013/02/thermal-transfer-vs-color-inkjet.html
Overall,
improved print quality, increased speed and lower ink costs make the TM-C3500 a
major improvement in print on-demand color labels. Contact me if you want to learn more; or just
visit the Color Label Solutions store (http://stores.colorlabelsolutions.com/StoreFront.bok)
Guy Mikel
guy_mikel@colorlabelsolutions.com
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