Head Press ST-3042 Please Help

[bms]

The vaccum is now by 0,07 and is ok but the finish product is not so good.

We found preheating the metal puck made a big difference. Allow this to heat as much as you can in the machine and then, with heat resistant gloves, fit the blank item with paper/film attached and then start the vacuum and the results will be much improved. The metal puck must be hot.

[malkram]

I used to make cases with ST-2030 without preheating the jigs, I just put the jig with the case in it right after temperature reached 180C (usually took 2 minutes or so), meaning neither the machine nor the jigs were preheated for a certain time and it worked great.

[bms]

I used to make cases with ST-2030 without preheating the jigs, I just put the jig with the case in it right after temperature reached 180C (usually took 2 minutes or so), meaning neither the machine nor the jigs were preheated for a certain time and it worked great.

Different approaches! These often came out faded without preheating as the heat from
the machine was sucked into the cool puck and as a result there was a significant difference in temperature at the face of sublimation. Other 3D presses worked very differently with transfers at lower temps and no preheating required, but this wasn't the case with the ST-3042.

The st-3042 isn't the same as an st-2030 from what I can see on the web.