brattee's Full Review: Alps MD 1000 Dye Sublimation Printer
I own this Alps MD-1000 printer, along with three other printers, and I must say that it is my favorite printer of all.
This printer uses four different cartridges, black, yellow, magenta, and cyan for "every day" printing. This would be text with pictures and with the highest resolution being 600 X 600 dpi. The highest resolution of this model is 1200 X 600 dpi, which you get when you choose the photo realistic paper option. Also, with this print mode, you must use a different cartridge for a finish, it gives the picture a clear glossy overpass. Along with the above four cartridges, you can also choose from metallic colors, and they also have a white cartridge to allow you to print color photos on color paper. (After visiting their web site, there are many more cartridges available for the newer model printers.) The cartridges seem to last a long time to me, and are fairly inexpensive at around 5-10 per cartridge, depending on what you're going to get. Metallics are more expensive than the normal ones.
With the micro dry printing, you can print on cloth for T-shirts, hats and transfers, print on vinyl for signs and bumper stickers, decales, even make fake tattoos. The possibilities are endless with what you can print on. I have made some stationary for our business with this printer also, and I must say that it turns out looking professionally done, I believe the reason why is from the print quality when using the 1200 X 600 dpi, and it gives the text, etc., a raised look to it.
The price of this printer, to me, was inexpensive when we purchased it, around $200.00. I've had the printer for about five years now. It's been well worth the investment to me. I know that it's actually gotten us a few jobs that we bid, because I could enclose before and after pictures of demo's that we would do for future customers. Or, I can take pictures of the jobs, and include them in the quote, with details as to what exactly will be pressure cleaned, or steam cleaned, and where it is needed most.
Print speed is not too bad, considering that it makes four passes over the paper, laying down one color layer at a time. This also helps to add a truer color to the finished product, at least I feel that it does.
The only problem I have with the printer is that sometimes it grabs too many sheets of paper at one time. Since when I use this printer I'm usually only printing one page at a time with pictures, it's not that bothersome. But when I have a few pages to print, most of the time I manually load them one after the other, so as not to waste any more paper than necessary. I've had a few paper jams, but they are minimal.
I'd recommend the Alps printer to anyone who prints a lot of photos, does detailed quotes for business, wants to make impressive looking stationary, or you just enjoy an extremely good print quality for anything you may want to print. I know that when I'm in the market for a new printer, I'll be purchasing a newer model Alps.
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