Recommendations for an ALPS printer

Bruce Apple · 2005-10-26T15:57:46+00:00

Greetings friends,I have been doing research on making my own decals. I am now to the point where I know that I need an ALPS printer. I saw the ALPS boxes when they first came out and dye/ink sublimation was new. Unfortunately, I didn't pay any attention to which model was which as my interest at that time was in printing papers for graduate school.I realize further, that ALPS has been out of business for quite some time, but there are still a few used machines that can be had, along with expensive but available spare/replacement parts. My question is, which ALPS printer should I be looking for. I have not been able to find out whether win XP pro supports ALPS printers, better to go usb or parallel. I thought perhaps someone in the group might have an ALPS box, or at some time owned on and could help me with a recommendation or other suggestions that would help me track down and purchase the best bang for the bucks.Many thanks for you time and assistance.Regards,BruceIPMS #44200

Oct 26, 2005 22 Replies

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Count DeMoney 20 years ago

Frank,

You didn't mention the extremely high heat that the Phaser needs to melt that crayon. I can't imagine the decal paper holding up to all that heat. I replaced the Phaser with an Okidata C9000. It is a truly amazing color laser. Colors are true, bright, and sharp. I can print everything possible including tabloid size 11 x 17 edge to edge. The cost per page is the lowest of any color laser on the market today. It's out of reach for home use. I am lucky to have it available for my decal printing.

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Frank Henriquez 20 years ago

It's actually not much higher than laser printer toner fuser temps - at least by the time it gets onto the paper. You can run laser printer safe transparencies through it. The decal paper I used (made by Tango Papa) goes through nicely.

It's good to know that - we replaced an old Apple color laser printer that was a pain to operate - with the Phasers. I'm getting tired of their lack of reliability and the very expensive operating costs, so I've been thinking of getting some nice color laser printers for work.

I use a small Minolta/QMS B&W laser printer to print heat transfer films for photoetch work, and for $75, it's been a great deal. I haven't looked at the output in detail, but there are some fairly nice toner based color laser printers for the home/small office that are not too expensive; if they're at all as trouble free as my B&W printer, they may be an option as well.

Frank

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Maverick 20 years ago

Hi It sounds loke a nice printer. One question. Does it print white?

Thanks

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