What makes the ipf6100 36" deep?????

[gotspeed]

Since I can't find one to measure on display can anybody tell me where the max depth of this printer comes from?
How does one get it through any doorways. I can't believe it so deep, both the hp and epsons are 26", even the 7900.

I would appreciate any info on how feasable moving this beast is.

Mark

[gotspeed]

And if I park it against a wall, and don't have much room left infront to move it out, is changing a roll a problem? It's a  nook maybe 50-60 wide total. I have a feeling to go for the 26" model. But the current price is very tempting.

[Jim Pascoe]

Mark

I have one, and it is a big beast!  However it measures about 26" from front to back.  I have left space behind as when you open the roll-paper cover it need an inch or two.  Mine is sat upon a worktop that is 24" deep.  The front of the printer overhangs a bit.  Below are drawers, and when printing I open the top drawer and stick a couple of offcuts of mountcard beneath the printer but resting on top of the drawer.  The mountcard then projects about 24" in front of the printer and helps support the print as it emerges.  This obviates the need to use the stand, and the printer takes up very little space!  Picture attached.

Regarding moving it.  My wife and I managed quite easily, but do not try on your own!

Jim

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[Jim Pascoe]

Mark

In answer to your second post.  It is not necessary to get behind the printer to change rolls. You can do it from the front quite easily.  Maybe if you have a bad back this could be risky!

Jim

[gotspeed]

Jim

Very much appreciate your reply. So it means that canon really didn't want this tipping over and made the T of the stand stick out at least 5" on both ends. It still won't go through 30-32" doorways assembled. But while it's parked, it only would stick out 30-32" from the wall and the stands feet would extend another 5" in front of that for you to trip over??

A local store called me yesterday and they have it for $1499+ one roll. She didn't say it anything about more free media per AlanG.

[Jim Pascoe]

Well It is a great printer and mine gets a lot of work.  Since March, when I bought it, I have used about ten 30 metre rolls, plus thousands of sheets.  Mine cost £2500 (UK).  The ink costs me 40p per ml.  Running costs are really low - assuming one is selling the pictures!  It has been good value.  Go for it!

Jim

[gotspeed]

I got to ordering, and it turns out the media deal is on $420.  I am not familiar with all the papers. But Here's what I got so far.

fine art velvet   55.35   24x50
premium glossy   168.85   24x99
polished rag   158.15   17x22 x25
bright white   $39.15    17x50


I'm not sure I need the polished rag, as it's the very pricey for the 25 sheets. I could buy more of the others instead.. I see a 24x50 roll at calumet for photorag at $193. So that would be better value.

[gotspeed]

It's a local store so I paid $160 tax,
But I got it!!!

fine art velvet   55.35   24x50   0850V062
premium glossy   168.85   24x99   2941B005AA
polished rag   214   13x19x100    0365V316
bright white   $39.15    17x50   0850V067
satin                          free         24x99


I paid 57 to upgrade to 100x 13x19 photo rag. And that's that. With lift gate and tax:  1766.

I got some christmas clients this week prints to be doing  this week. Should take a bite of that.

Thanks Jim for making me go for it. I was thinking of going with the more  expensive pritners for the depth issue.

Mark

[MACoberly]

I sure am jealous of that price.  I just called the only place in Seattle that I know of that sells them, and he quoted me $2795.00.  Looks like I'll have to order if I'm going to get that price.

M>

[gotspeed]

Call itsupplies.com it's free shipping and you won't pay tax.

[Jim Pascoe]

I am sure you will have a lot of fun with it!  Mine hasn't missed a beat yet (is that tempting fate?).

Best wishes

Jim

[gotspeed]

I am sure you will have a lot of fun with it!  Mine hasn't missed a beat yet (is that tempting fate?).

Best wishes

Jim

Crossing my finger for both of us...

[gotspeed]

Jim,

I see your picture has several images nested on the roll. Are you using some kind of RIP? How necessary would that be vs lightroom? Never used one, so I don't know how it works. I can imagine if you are just sending one print at a time into the RIP without knowing what's coming next and it lays out, it might be more convinient than picking them all in lighroom first and selecting a package?

Mark

[Jim Pascoe]

Hi Mark

I do almost all of my printing from Lightroom now.  I have made up my own templates for all different size prints.  It is very easy to do. I print lots of pictures for wedding albums.  So for instance I have a template for 7x5 prints.  Nine 7x5 prints on 24x17 paper. I use the rolls mostly and today I printed 81 7x5 prints in one hit!  That is nine sheets of nine pictures.  No point in making the sheets too big or they would be awkward to handle.  I trim them using a 26" Rotatrim cutter.  Altogether I printed 190 pictures this afternoon for an album.  The Pictures varied in size from 4x3 up to 14x11.  All printed on roll paper using templates in Lightroom.  Total printing time was about 2 hours, plus 50 minutes to trim the prints.  I always leave them for an hour or two to dry properly first.  That is about 10 metres of paper.  I have about 30 different templates.  They only take minutes to set up.  Have a go!
The templates do have to have all of one size print though, so probably not like a true RIP.

I am off to bed shortly (it is 2140 here in the UK), but if you have any other questions let me know.

Jim

[AlanG]

The 36 inches reference is if you load heavy card stock from the front, it will be loaded into the printer so that it sticks out in the back. Mine is right up against the wall and there is no problem.   If I wanted to use heavy card stock, I'd pull it out from the wall.  Otherwise, the front of the printer only sticks out about 26 inches from the wall.  

I can't get over how much the price has dropped in the 1 1/2 months since I bought mine.  I wonder what is going on with Canon? Are they trying to make a bigger presence in the printer market?  Or are they having trouble selling them?  I have to say that I have been very very impressed with mine.

[gotspeed]

Thanks Alan,

That's really good news about the depth. Why don't they make it clear.. I almost didn't buy this thing because of that.

It really blows about the price drop if you just purchased it. I had it on order a couple weeks ago, but cancelled due to my thinking abou 36" depth. Then I get a call from another shop for the price drop.  Talk about weird luck. This year a little luck is needed by all. Even when I was ordering the first time, my gut feeling was telling me there will  be more deals as they probably are sitting on lots of stock and they have the 6200 shipping.

[Scott Martin]

my gut feeling was telling me there will  be more deals as they probably are sitting on lots of stock and they have the 6200 shipping.

The 6100 isn't being discontinued. The 6200 is an alternate with an EFI RIP and hard drive support. I surprised they didn't call it the 6100/EFI edition like Epson's [9880/ColorBurst Edition] naming convention. The deals are certainly out there right now. Call and shop around for one and don't rely on website pricing.

[AlanG]

The 6100 isn't being discontinued. The 6200 is an alternate with an EFI RIP and hard drive support. I surprised they didn't call it the 6100/EFI edition like Epson's [9880/ColorBurst Edition] naming convention. The deals are certainly out there right now. Call and shop around for one and don't rely on website pricing.

I just ordered the 5100 from Atlex.com.  It cost $800 including delivery.  (I had a "trade in" serial number so I got the $200 instant rebate.)  I figured it comes with $600 worth of ink and of course the paper. It seemed worth it to get the extra print heads in case the ones in my 6100 wear out. (I really don't anticipate doing that much printing, but at least I won't be stuck with an $1100+ expense if they do wear out.)  So now I'll have a printer sitting in my basement that I'll probably never use.  

Atlex told me the prices are going back up and that I got the last one for $800. Apparently Canon ran a special for a little while. Other dealers either gave the discount, made more money by keeping the price the same, or were not aware of it.

Any offers for just the brand new printer without ink, or heads but with a maintenance tank?  You pick up - I'm in the Washington DC area.  Otherwise I'll keep it as a back up.