Fastest/Faster Inkjet?

[Mark Anthony]

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone could help me? My Wife currently uses two Epson XP-760's to print photo quality stickers on glossy paper.

We are looking to increase production time and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a photo quality photo printer that would show HUGE improvements in print time?

Thanks in advance

 

[mikling]

The only surefire way to dramatically increase production capacity is to use multiple identical printers and "pool" them. That way print speed is more than "scaled" because all printers within the pool continue to work as one is being refilled, reloaded with paper etc. This way you can for example increase the "real" production capacity by a factor of three by using three printers. Additionally, it also increases the reliability of production as if one goes down, you still have two working.
No new single printer can match the speed of pooled printers. Pooling is free, getting an extremely fast single new printer will be costly and you'd never match the pooled uptime reliability of pooled printers.

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1932483/printer-pooling-configure.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUlKDGKPYWQ
http://www.itworld.com/article/2759861/small-business/how-to-setup-a-printer-pool.html

 

[websnail]

@Mark Anthony: Thinking outside the box here, do you have some numbers in terms of how much printing is being done, size of stickers, longevity required, etc... and just what sort of scope you're hoping/expecting to get out of it all?

Beyond that and Mikes useful suggestion, there are a few other areas you can reduce your print times.

1. Consider whether one of the bulk ink systems like the Epson Workforce Pro or Canon Maxify units would provide the quality (and paper compatibility you need)... Thinking about it, you might have problems with ink to paper compatibility but t'is one route to consider.
   
   
2. Is there scope to reduce the headache and hassle of frequent chip resets and/or refills by getting something like an Ecotank system (eg: Epson L800). What they cost is a factor but if you really are wasting a lot of time doing changeovers and lost paper from reset/change-overs, the lack of chips in the L800 type printers quickly becomes very attractive.
   
   
3. Is it time to think about larger format printers beyond the A3+ size and really scale up?

Hope that provides some other avenues to explore.