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A4 Size: Uninet iColor 550 Toner-Based Color + White Transfer / Sublimation printer (capable of HEAT TRANSFER printing, DYE SUBLIMATION printing, SECURITY printing, CLEAR printing and more) - for garment printing and hard surfaces

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$3,499.00
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On-demand full color + white digital printing for in house production of apparel / textile, marketing customization, and hard surface promotional product markets.

The iColor® 550 is a Toner-Based Digital Transfer Printer, featuring full color combined with white overprint and underprint capabilities in a single pass.

The iColor® 550 is a unique, low cost and versatile on-demand printing solution for short to mid run transfer production of garments, labels, stationary, banners, hard surfaces, art reproduction, marketing customization and much more! The iColor® 550 is like having a professional print shop on your desktop, incorporating professional quality image printing capabilities, as well as optional specialty toner upgrade kits such as dye sublimation, fluorescent, clear and security toners.

Use the iColor® 550 for five different uses:
  • Heat transfer printing with white overprint
  • Right side reading applications with white underprint
  • Regular CMYK prints without white
  • Optional fluorescent printing
  • Optional dye sublimation transfer printing
What's so unique about the iColor® 550 digital color + white transfer media printer?
  • The iColor550 gives you the ability to print white as an underprint AND an overprint in the same machine, in one pass, using the iColor® ProRIP software.
  • The white opacity of UniNet's unique blend of toner is double that of any other brand, giving you the brightest whites and solid background to bring out the vibrancy of your colors.
  • The true black cartridge is included with the printer, allowing you to switch to CMYK mode to print items such as brochures and menus when white is not needed.
  • Optional (sold separately) you can also get specialty cartridges such as dye sublimation cartridges, fluorescent cartridges, security and clear toner cartridge kits.
  • Lowest cost and most flexible machine available.
  • No maintenance associated with ink based machine is necessary, the iColor® 550 is a toner based system.
  • Large array of media available for virtually any project.
  • Easily swap back and forth between regular and specialty cartridges, eliminating the need to purchase separate machines to accomplish each function.

Helping You Do More With Your Brand: The iColor® 550 offers everything you need to evolve and grow your business. Feature and customize your brand and marketing materials on garments, hard surfaces and printed materials in any quantity. Produce personalized items such as t-shirts, aprons, mugs, bags, stationary, invitations, menus, envelopes, labels, window decals, brochures, signs, packaging prototypes and much more.

Enhance Your Apparel Decorating Business: Expand your business opportunities and tap into a wide variety of market segments by producing personalized garments, accessories and more. Produce graphics with both color and white for application to virtually any dark colored textile or substrate. The printed image will result in soft, bright colors and the garment can be washed over and over without significant wear of the transfer.

The iColor® 550 provides cost-effective fabric transfer production without the maintenance associated with direct-to-garment or silk screening systems.

Get outstanding image quality results when combined with the iColor Premium Transfer Paper to transfer images onto delicate synthetics at 250F (120°C) without damage to the fabric!

Go Beyond 4-Color Printing: The iColor® 550 features UniNet's exclusive white toner formulation, giving you the brightest and most opaque white printing technology on the market today. Produce consistent, vibrant and crisp images for a wide variety of printing applications, all in a single pass!

Cutting Edge Software! Increase performance and printing capabilities with the iColor® ProRIP Software. Ideal for production environments, users can manipulate the white layer behind the graphic for printing on dark or transparent media where white is needed as a background color. Multiple cartridge configurations are available to easily adjust for reverse printing, with white overprinting capabilities. Do it all in ONE PASS with featured Single Pass Digital Technology. Enjoy the iColor® PRORIP Software with added features that help save on white toner usage by 50%, allowing for custom color profiles, rasterization, custom layouts and much more! No need to create additional graphics with different color configurations - the software does it all!

Easily print oversized images with UniNet's exclusive iColor® SmartCut software. This ground breaking application turns your printer into a tabloid 'plus' capable machine, allowing for the splitting and splicing of one graphic across two printed transfer sheets. You won't believe your eyes!

Unlock the Power of Dye Sublimation Enhance UniNet iColor® 550 with the optional iColor® Dye Sublimation Toner Kit. Amplify your printed offerings by producing high quality, vibrant color prints for sublimation transfers onto polyester-based textiles and sublimation coated hard surface substrates such as ceramic, metal, acrylic, UniSub, DynaSub, SubiBoard and more.

Getting started with dye sublimation is now easier and more affordable than ever. No need to choose between transfer printing and dye sublimation - the iColor® 550 does both, and more! Create garments, ceramic mugs, coasters, cell phone covers and other wearables. Easily swap back and forth between regular toner and the dye sublimation toner, eliminating the need to purchase separate machines to accomplish each function.

In addition, the UniNet iColor® Sublimation Toner Cartridges offer higher yields compared to ink sublimation systems, and print at much higher speeds for greater efficiency and productivity.

  • Gain a Competitive Edge With the iColor® 550 Benefits and Advantages!
  • Exceptional 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution.
  • Exclusive iColor® SmartCut software allows for the printing of oversized images in tabloid sizes and greater!
  • Faster processing with an Intel processor 1.46Ghz.
  • iColor® ProRIP Software for automated production level printing with advanced color management and customized print modes.
  • Handles complex graphics with 2GB RAM memory.
  • 4.3" Digital Touch Screen provides easy navigation to menu settings.
  • USB and SD card front ports Simple, All-in-one toner cartridge & drum printing system W/C/M/Y + BK.
  • Optional iColor Dye Sublimation, FluoToner, Absolute Clear and UniNet Security Toner Kits available.
  • Wireless printing capability using optional Wireless LAN.
  • Store and handle complex graphics with optional 320GB hard drive.
  • Print banners up to 49.6".
  • Built-in duplexing capability
iColor® 550 System Specifications:
  • Print Speed: Up to 8 ppm on transfer media; up to 26 ppm on standard media
  • Processor: Intel 1.46 GHZ
  • Duty Cycle: Up to 75,000 pg/mo.
  • Duplex: Standard
  • Memory: 2GB RAM
  • Resolution: 1200 x 1200 dpi
  • Emulation: PostScript® 3
  • Operating Systems: Standalone and network - Microsoft Windows® 7 / 8 / 10 (x32 & x64); Mac® support OS X 10.4 and higher (Printer only, RIP Software is for Windows PC's only)
  • Interfaces: 10/100-TX Ethernet, High Speed USB v2.0
  • Paper Capacity: Standard 100-sheet; handles transfer media, card and mailing label stock
  • Paper Cassette: 500-sheet Legal/Letter/Universal
  • Paper Sizes (Min./Max.): Multi-Purpose Tray handles up to 100 sheets - 3" x 5" to 8.5" x 14"; Paper Cassette - 5.8" x 8.3" to 8.5" x 14"
  • Paper Weight: Multi-Purpose Tray - 16 lb. bond to 59 lb. index (60 to 220 gsm); Paper Cassette - 16 lb. bond to 43 lb. index (60 to 163 gsm)
  • Size: (WxDxH): 15.8" x 18.9" x 15.9" (40 cm x 48 cm x 40.4 cm)
  • Weight: 63.9 lb. (29 kg)
  • Power: 120v & 230v
PURCHASE INCLUDES:
  • iColor 550 printer
  • ProRIP RIP software
  • 5 Transfer Toner Cartridges (CMYK and W, 1,500 page yield). Just quickly swap the black (K) for white (W) when you want true black printing, or use the CMYW combination when you need white printing (in this combination, black is generated from CMY)
  • 1 Year warranty for parts and labor

REQUIRED (not included): Heat press (we recommend Hotronix brand Heat Press)

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS (sold separately):
  • Heat Transfer Media (for light and dark garments / textiles)
  • Heat Transfer Media (for wood / leather)
  • Heat Transfer Media (for ceramics)
  • Banner Paper (for printing banners)
  • Standard Yield Transfer Printing Cartridges (3,000 page yield)
  • Extended Yield Transfer Printing Cartridges (7,000 page yield)
  • Dye Sublimation CMYK starter toner cartridge kit (for dye sublimation printing)
  • Fluorescent CMY starter cartridge kit (for fluorescent printing)

For a comparison of features / functions between this and other available textile / hard surface printers, please visit: www.dtgpro.com/comparison




WARNING: WARNING: WORK IN A WELL VENTILATED AREA and use Protective Equipment (including masks and gloves) when working with specialty printing and curing products and processes (including DTF, DTG, UV etc.) as fumes and processes may be hazardous. We highly recommend the use of a fume extractor when working with DTF powder in addition to good ventilation and filtration in your work area. The use of all specialty ink printing equipment and supplies such as inks, chemicals, powders etc. are at the sole risk of the user. Specialty inks and film require a good humidity and temperature environment (55% - 75% humidity, and 75° to 80°F) to minimize risk of ink clogs and film buckling.


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The IColor™ 540/560/650 Transfer Media Printers offer several unique advantages:

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Easily print oversized images on letter / A4 sized printers (or larger) with UNINET’s optional IColor SmartCUT software. SmartCUT allows owners of smaller width printers to gain the benefits of tabloid or larger sized printers. SmartCUT is a cross platform, user centric tool that is a key component to expanding the size constraints of popular print methods, especially as it relates to transfer printing commonly associated with garment decoration. This ground breaking application turns your letter/A4 sized printer into a tabloid ‘plus’ capable machine, allowing for the splitting and splicing of one graphic across two or more printed transfer sheets… See full answer »
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The IColor™ 560 is the updated version of the 550 with many common characteristics, with these differences:

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The IColor™ 650 and 800 are both larger format printers. The IColor™ 650 can print a maximum width of 11.8 inches wide and the IColor™ 800 can print the maximum width of 12.5 inches wide. The IColor™ 650 has the same versatility of the IColor™ 560; you can overprint® and underprint® in white, as well as print sublimation, fluorescent colors, gold, silver and CMYK. The IColor™ 800 is a white overprinting printer only and does not support specialty toner kits or moving the position of the white cartridge. The 800 also is faster and has significantly lower cost per page due to its higher yielding cartridges. The 800 has a color gamut 30% wider than the IColor™ 650, which means it can print a wider variety of colors.
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The IColor™ 560 and 650 are both capable of printing white as an underprint® and an overprint® through the use of the IColor™ ProRIP software. Within the software is a cartridge configuration setup, where the white cartridge can be placed either in the first slot of the printer or the last. The Underprint® Queue is suitable for white underprinting and ‘right side reading’, where you would want a white underbase, printed first and then color on top for clear or dark substrates. The Overprint® Queue (ProRIP) would be used for white or clear overprinting for reverse print applications when printing any type of transfer (textiles or hard surfaces).
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Rasterization, destressing adding negative space to your graphics is very important when considering the durability and the feel of the graphic. If you are going to print a graphic wider than 3 fingers, then you should rasterize or add distress to your graphic.
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When printing with a toner printer, very little maintenance is required. Toner printers do not create experience clogged heads like inkjet printers do. The printer can be switched off for an extensive amount of time and then print normally without have to perform a major cleaning.
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Simply put, the IColor™ ProRIP software is the magic behind one pass printing with white as an underprint® or an overprint®. The most important point of the IColor™ ProRIP software is that it allows colors to be put down in layers. Regular printer drivers only concern themselves with what the eye sees on the top layer, the RIP allows you to separately control each layer, thus giving you the ability to control not only what you see, but what is behind that top layer (typically the white layer). The IColor™ ProRIP gives you the unique ability to use one machine to print images with white as an underprint® or an overprint®. You can now print vibrant colors on clear or dark media regardless of the background to which it is applied, where… See full answer »
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Because of the flexibility of cartridge mapping, you are able to print transfers as easily as regular everyday documents. With the white toner installed in overprint® mode, now you are printing in reverse with a white overprint® for any type of transfer print. Print on a variety textile and hard surface transfer media, all 100% certified and qualified to work with our series of printers. Create custom garments, mugs, plaques, awards and much more.

Move the white to the other side of the machine –underprint® mode – and now you can print on clear or dark material with a white… See full answer »
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Heat transferred graphics can be used on most types of fabrics and virtually any color; heat transferred graphics lay on top of the fabric with adhesive base to adhere to the textile.

Through sublimation, the graphic transfers into the fabric instead of sitting on top of it. Sublimation will last much longer, but it only works on white or lighter colored polyester substrates.

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