Jason Price states emphatically: “My first impression of using the OKI is its speed, reliability, and consistency. A lot of motor sport teams cannot afford to have their own design team on board, and sponsors want their colours to be perfect now, and perfect four months from now.
“One of the first projects we worked on using the Color Painter there were a lot of vector based colours, and I was a little bit concerned that it wasn’t going to be ok. But to be brutally honest I have never had a machine able to print that level of colour, with that consistency. You can trust the printer to achieve what you have sent it, without the need to re-print and adjust.
It really has given us a competitive sting”
“If you print a black line, what I call composite black—100 percent black with 20 percent of each other colour. When your black line fades out, all the heads will be firing, and on other machines you are going to get a slightly green or blue tinge as it starts to fade the colour.
“Even though the heads are not receiving much data, they still need to fire. But having the seven-colour capability in the OKI Color Painter, that line will fade to nothing perfectly without a hint of colour bleed.”
Price explains the Color Painter has helped it both retain its major contracts with motor sport teams due to its colour consistency, while also helping it win a raft of new work as its reputation for being able to perfectly hit spot colours and provide cast iron consistency spreads.
“It really has given us a competitive sting,” jokes Price, who adds: “The other key thing is it is low odour compared to our other devices. That was another attraction for me, as I sit right in front of it, and it is Greenguard Gold certified for low-dour emissions.”