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Wide-format eco-solvent — banners / FastCOLOUR / F-series

Brand: am.co.za / AM.CO.ZA. Scenario pack · 2026-09-07 03:15 SAST.

Story / context

Banners, outdoor vinyl, vehicle wrap, shopfront colour → current FastCOLOUR™ ONE F-series eco-solvent (or UV/hybrid when outdoor durability / different media needs UV). This is a large-format conversation, not desktop DTF.

HELPING reading: first-time “large format” buyers often arrive because outside printers cannot match colour — steer to current F-series. Laminate eco outdoor work, or look at UV. Eco inks are a busy existing-shop consumable loop.

Johannesburg is the realistic pick-up story. Catalog ≠ stock. List lines here; qty only via latest.json by SKU. Do not invent prices or restock days.

Who it is for

Sign / wrap / banner shops; print-and-cut shops adding colour width; existing Vinyl4 users who need outdoor print. Not the default first ticket for a garment-only DTF shop.

Width / ink cheat-sheet

Class Typical use
~1800 mm roll-to-roll Common first FastCOLOUR / F2-1800 class
~3200 mm roll-to-roll Wider banners / production
/ECO suffix packages Eco-solvent ink bundles
/UV · hybrid LED-UV / hybrid (different media story)
/SUB Dye sublimation variants
Barebone F2-1800 / F1-1800 Chassis; heads/inks/software may be separate

Catalog digest: large-format-printers.md · machinery overview: product-categories.md.

Representative machines (lean)

SKU Role Product MD
F2-1800 FastCOLOUR ONE 1800 mm PrintExp barebone (XP600 class) — HELPING “starter that is actually here” class page
F1-1800 FastCOLOUR ONE 1800 mm ATools barebone page
F1-1801/ECO 1800 mm ATools roll-to-roll eco-solvent package class page
F1-1804/ECO 1800 mm eco-solvent package (multi-head class) page
F1-3201/ECO 3200 mm eco-solvent class page
F-1800/P Board support platform for 1800/1860 class page

Product JSON: https://am.im/product/{slug}.json (slug rule: single-sku-stock.md). Buythis: https://buythis.co.za/{slug}#ai.

Consumable loop (eco ink)

Premium F2 eco bottles appear as movers in warehouse colour; check live qty — do not invent:

SKU Page
F2-ECO/CYAN f2-eco-cyan.md
F2-ECO/MAGENTA f2-eco-magenta.md
F2-ECO/YELLOW f2-eco-yellow.md
F2-ECO/BLACK f2-eco-black.md
F-ECO/CLEAN f-eco-clean.md

Online velocity colour (not on-hand): buythis-sales.json · online-vs-floor.md.

RIP / how-to

Prefer InkRIP / FlexiPRINT for new sales — AcroRIP is Cold (READING.md). Software track: software-inkrip-vinylcut.md. FastCOLOUR how-to index: fastcolour-howtos.md.

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