I have a retail shop and have been getting customers wanting/expecting color jobs rather than standard laser produced stuff.
Sooo...with a tight budget we had the new Ricoh GX7000 or the Epson 1400 to choose from. We picked the Ricoh to avoid bags. Also we thought the 4-color would be fine compared to the 6-color Epson. Sometimes less is more.
We are planning to produce plaques, trophy 2" inserts, name tags, tiles, misc gift items in our shop.
Printer arrives Friday.
Anyone have an OOTB (out of the box) experiences to share?? Anyone have pictures of their retail displays of products??
I just picked up a 1400 yesterday. The shop I bought it from had a GX7000 right next to it. They were on their second one, the first had crapped out already. I hope you have better luck...
I went with the bags because I think it will be cheaper in the long run than replacing cartridges.
Good attitude, I hope it works out for you! I gave it a serious look myself, I just felt the Epson based has been around a lot longer.... Always tough being the first one down a new street...
The UPS guy just brought my kit.... printer, papers, tape, etc... It will be about 8 hrs before I have time to mess with it, I have to get some production done for people picking up prders today!
Anything you do to avoid bulk systems that are comprised of bags using mother nature (gravity) is a wise decision! There are countless number of people, me being one, that have lost time and money trying to do dye sub on the cheap. One spends more ink on unclogging heads then printing. Once we left the bulk bag systems and purchased a Epson 4800 and Epson 9800 (cartridge based) the headaches go away. Good luck with your system and long live cartridges.
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Originally Posted by jiarby
I have a retail shop and have been getting customers wanting/expecting color jobs rather than standard laser produced stuff.
Sooo...with a tight budget we had the new Ricoh GX7000 or the Epson 1400 to choose from. We picked the Ricoh to avoid bags. Also we thought the 4-color would be fine compared to the 6-color Epson. Sometimes less is more.
We are planning to produce plaques, trophy 2" inserts, name tags, tiles, misc gift items in our shop.
Printer arrives Friday.
Anyone have an OOTB (out of the box) experiences to share?? Anyone have pictures of their retail displays of products??
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I am definitely interested in your experience with the GX7000. I have had such poor experience with my Epson C88+'s that I am dying to find something better. I was pretty set on a 4880, but have read some horror stories on that too.
My rep told me about the GX5050 yesterday or the day before and I'm seriously thinking about getting it. But I'm trying to hold off on buying anything until I go to the NBM show in May. Let us know how you like the new printer.
Looks like it works...
We got the thing all hooked up and made a dogtag for my son! He'll hate it! It is him at the Meteor Crater here in AZ.
My wife has a C88 with cartridges in her classroom and said this GX-7000 was jawdroppingly fast. She said it would have taken the C88 15minutes to print what this one did in 5 seconds!
Just ordered GX7000! 
