Pigment inks (Canon Maxify GX printers)

[dogboy]

Hello,

I have a need to print labels that are fairly durable and water resistant.
I have sample prints from a Epson Colorworks C4000 label printer, which seem perfect for my needs, but of course the cost of one of these (or the C6500) is very high.
The Epson uses Pigment inks and the samples I have are printed on Vinyl or PP material.

I found that most tank inkjet printers only have a Black Pigment ink and the colour inks are dye based.

However, it seems that the Canon Maxify Mega tank GX series printers use Pigment for the Black and the 3 colours (GI56 ink)

My question is this:

If I print labels on a Maxify printer on PP or Vinyl labels can I expect similar results to the Epson label printer? If not, then how good.
I don't want to buy a Canon Mega Tank printer to find out that the results are poor or not what I need and end up wasting my money.

I don't need to print 10s of thousands, just a few hundred a month, in different sizes.
Currently I pay to have my labels printed commercially, but the cost is fairly high, and to get the price per label low I have to have 500+ each time. Plus the time delays etc.

Any ideas or thoughts about this? Anyone on here printing label using Pigment ink printers?

Thanks
Paul

 

[The Hat]

Any ideas or thoughts about this? Anyone on here printing label using Pigment ink printers?

I have used vinyl on my Canon pigment printer to print labels for electrical boxes, there’s no problem printing but you may have to set your printers media slight odd to get the best results, (trial and test)

Mine are out in all weathers and have lasted very well, none need a reprint as of yet.. Papilio.com do many different vinyl stickers..

I’ve used my Maxify for black labels only..

 

[dogboy]

Thank you for your reply.
I only need to print, no need for copy or scanning so I was looking at the Maxify GX1050 being about the cheapest.
However, it uses G_55 inks. whereas the other Maxify models use the GI56 inks.

Is the actual ink in the the GI55 the same as the GI56? Is it just the bottle shape/size different.
looks like the GI55 (Smaller bottles in the GX1050) are much cheaper per ml than the GI56?

Any ideas?

Also, is the print engine/print quality the same across all the Maxify GX range, and its only the speed and other features that are different? seems they just have different scanning / document capacity and speeds difference between the models, so maybe the GX1050 is the best option for my labels.

Thanks