Your Sign, Graphic & Apparel Business Starts Here - BN-20, BN-20a

VersaStudio BN-20, BN-20A Desktop Inkjet Printer/Cutters

Start building a t-shirt, poster, sticker, and decal graphics printing business, all from the comfort of your desktop. With VersaSTUDIO BN-20 printer/cutters, you can print, cut, and create super high-quality graphics without the super high price tag.

  • Easily the most versatile print devices in their class— print and cut on a huge range of vinyl, films, and media
  • In addition to traditional graphics, you can create heat transfer graphics for jerseys, hoodies, bags and more
  • Legendary Roland DG machine reliability combines with exceptional image quality and color to give you the solution you need to succeed
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BN-20’s Love
Creative People

Despite a low-price tag that makes it comparable to “art and graphics printers” on the market, BN-20 printer/cutters are serious machines that offer seriously great results. Used by everyone from hobbyists who are looking to take their home business to the next level, to graphic design professionals who need quality and versatility from a desktop device to businesses that want to create custom graphics from their stores and offices, BN-20 technology empowers creative people to do amazing things.
VersaStudio BN-20a

Create Print and Cut Graphics
with One Awesome Machine

Not only do BN-20 devices print quality graphics up to 1440 dpi, but they can automatically contour cut them as well! This means you can create labels, decals, t-shirt transfers and other products that are cut to the unique compositions of your designs.

A state-of-the-art cutting operation provides consistent results and isn’t prone to the problems inherent in craft cutter devices with simple up/down electronic controls. Instead, they ensure super-crisp cutting results on a huge diversity of products - supporting rolls up-to 515mm wide and weighing up-to 6kg.

Heat Transfer shirt
decals
Poster
Vehicle Graphics
window graphics
wall decor
BN-20a Stickers

Distinguishing Features

  • Now compatible with True Rich Color presets in VersaWorks 6 to widen your color gamut and achieve bolder and more targeted color results.
  • A simplified media feed system automatically aligns roll media for printing— ensuring proper placement and tracking.
  • Print, cut and laminate graphics— remove prints, laminate, and reload for cutting—automatically realigning and compensating for skew and distortion.
  • The BN-20’s Energy Star® seal of approval guarantees maximum energy efficiency to lower your electric bills.
  • Roland DG OnSupport automatically manages your production— e-mailing you when ink is low, a job is finished, or when you need to download a firmware upgrade.
  • The BN-20A model features a streamlined installation process for easy set-up.

Included VersaWorks 6
RIP Software

BN-20 devices have been engineered to make print production easy for users of all skill levels. In addition to a simplified control panel operation, it includes VersaWorks 6 RIP software, with powerfully simple RIP production tools, for managing all your print and cut output.

HARLEQUIN RIP dual core engine and 64-bit native processing for enhanced speed and file handling.

 

Easy drag-and-drop interface allows you to quickly add jobs to the print queue.

Add cut lines directly in the RIP— change vector data into cut line data.

 

Integrated spot color libraries include Pantone and Roland DG Color libraries.

A variety of profiles designed for different types of application, enable high-quality print output without difficult settings.

 

Intuitive tiling, cropping, nesting and other features that have made VersaWorks the world’s favorite software RIP

VersaWorks 6

The Roland DG Connect app showing on a notebook and a mobile device

Roland DG Connect App
For Everything Creative

Reduce downtime and improve work efficiency with a machine monitoring assistant that helps you gain a detailed understanding of your entire print operation while keeping your device running at optimum performance.

The Roland DG Connect app showing on a notebook and a mobile device

Additional Information

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VersaStudio BN-20 Series
Model VersaStudio BN-20 Series
Printing method / Cutting method Piezoelectric inkjet / Grit roller feed
Acceptable media Width 5.9 to 20.3 in. (150 to 515 mm)
Thickness Printing: Maximum 39 mil (1.0 mm) with liner
Cutting: Maximum 16 mil (.4 mm) with liner
Roll Weight Maximum 13.2 lbs (6 kg)
Roll Outer Diamater Maximum 5.9 in (150 mm)
Core Diamater 2 in (50.8 mm)or 3 in (76.2 mm) cores
Printing/cutting width1 Maximum 18.9 in (480 mm)
Ink Cartridges Type & Capacity (BN-20) Roland ECO-SOL MAX, 220ml
Type & Capacity (BN-20a) Roland ECO-SOL MAX 2, 220ml
Colors (BN-20) 5 Color – CMYK + White (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, and White)
5 Color – CMYK + Metallic (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black and Metallic)
Colors (BN-20 & BN-20a) 4 Color - CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black)
Printing resolution Max 1440 dpi
Cutting Blade Type Roland CAMM-1 series cutter blade
Cutting speed 0.4 (10 mm/s) to 5.9 in/s (150 mm/s)
Blade force 30 to 300gf
Software resolution (when cutting) 0.000984 in/step (0.025 mm/step)
Distance accuracy (when printing)2,3 Error of less than ± 0.3 % of distance traveled, or ± 0.3mm (0.012 in), whichever is greater.
Distance accuracy (when cutting)2,4 Error of less than ± 0.4 % of distance traveled, or ± 0.3mm (0.012 in), whichever is greater.
Repetition accuracy (When cutting)2,5 ±0.004 in (± 0.1mm) or less
Alignment accuracy for printing and cutting2,6 ±0.020 in (± 0.5mm) or less
Alignment accuracy for printing and cutting when reloading media2,7 Error of less than ± 0.5% of distance traveled, or ± 0.012 in (3mm), whichever is greater
Print Heater Temperature8 Fixed at 95o F (35oC)
Connectivity USB 2.0
Power-saving function Automatic sleep feature / AC 100 to 240V ± 10%, 1.0 A, 50/60 Hz
Power Consumption During Operation Approx. 90 W
Sleep Mode Approx. 5.5 W
Acoustic Noise Level During Operation 62 dB (A) or less
During Standby 42 dB (A) or less
Dimensions/Weight 39.7" W x 22.9" D x 11.5" H in.
(1009 W x 582 D x 293 H mm), 79.4 lb. (36 kg)
Operating Conditions Power on Temperature: 68o - 90o F (20 to 32o C), humidity: 35 - 80% RH (non condensing)
Power off Temperature: 41o - 104o F (5 to 40o C), humidity: 20 - 80% RH (non condensing)
Included Items Power cord, USB cable, blade, blade holder, downloadable software and manual library— including VersaWorks RIP and User's Manual
 
*1 The length of printing or cutting is subject to the limitations of the program.
*2 Using Roland specified media, loaded correctly, temperature: 25°C (77°F), humidity: 50 %RH, all pinch rollers are used, 25 mm or more for both right and left margins and 35 mm or more front margin, excluding expansion or contraction of the emdia, and all correction and adjustment functions of this machine have been made properly.
*3 Using Roland specified media, print travel of 1m.
*4 Using Roland specified media, cut travel of 1m.
*5 Range for assured repetition accuracy: Length 1,000 mm.
*6 Provided that media length is under 1,000 mm. Excluding possible shift caused by expansion/contraction of the media and/or by reloading the media.
*7 Using Roland specified media, data size: 1,000 mm in the media-feed direction, 480 mm in the carriage-movement direction. No lamination. Automatic detection of crop marks at 4 points when media is reloaded. Excludes the effects of skewed movement and of expansion and contraction of the media.
*8 Warm-up is required after power up. This may require 5 to 20 minutes, depending on the operating environment. The preset temperature may fail to be reached 35°C (95°F) depending on the ambient temperature and media width.
*9 Roland Software Package includes: Windows driver, OnSupport software, utility software and R-Works design software
Roland VersaWorks 6 System Requirements
Operating system Windows® 10 (32/64-bit)
Windows® 8.1 (32/64-bit)
Windows® 7 Professional / Ultimate (32/64-bit)
CPU Intel® Core™2 Duo, 2.0 GHz or faster recommended
RAM 2 GB or more recommended
Video card and monitor A resolution of 1,280 x 1,024 or more recommended
Free hard-disk space 40 GB or more recommended
Hard-disk file system NTFS format
Optical drive DVD-ROM drive
Other requirements Ethernet or USB port
Internet connection and web browser to use Roland@NET

Please note: Considering that you will be using software such as Illustrator, we recommend that you use as high performance computer as possible to reduce RIP processing time. We also recommend using a hard disk that has large enough capacity, as print files are often tens of GB in size (or larger) when data is high resolution.

* Roland VersaWorks 6 is a 32-bit application, which runs on 64-bit Windows® with WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit).

 

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