Freesub St-210

[paul 44]

Well my old chinese mug press died today right in the middle of a job I had to do for a local heritage centre so I opted for this from Dyesublimation supplies, http://www.dyesublimationsupplies.co.uk ... Heat-Press double digital job, anybody had any experience with this press and what are thoughts on it?

It has a 12 month warranty on the machine and seemed reasonable so bought it

[paul 44]

OMG!!!
I got this press from dyesublimation supplies, seems a great little machine for the money, have to get the prints bang in the middle as I don't think the plates are heating all the way around but may just need a little tinkering with timings/pressure.....anyway...I got this for £120.00 pounds and I've just checked on ebay for the same machine...£890.99....any guesses as to who is selling it....yup...signzworld

[PeteO]

OMG!!!
I got this for £120.00 pounds and I've just checked on ebay for the same machine...£890.99....any guesses as to who is selling it....yup...signzworld

That is not uncommon, taking a listing off line when you have run out of stock impacts on your search positioning, as such many sellers when out of stock of an item will increase the price astronomically, this maintains product positioning without disappointing customers that you cant ship their item.

As soon as stock arrives, the price will return to normal.

Its similar in principle to when retailers reduce items to very low prices in store when out of stock. This ensures customer interest is maintained and not purchased else where, then once back in stock the promotion price ends and it returns to normal. The customer is advised the out of stock was due to the success of the promotion, and once the price matches that of all other retailers they might as well but it at the original retailer as they had already planned to anyway. A certain high street electronics and components retailer used to be very big on it, i remember on many occasions of being asked to price match as theirs is cheaper responding 'ours is cheaper too when out of stock'

[paul 44]

ah ok, my apologies, i've obviously misundrestood that, though maybe it was a typo or something lol

[PeteO]

Nothing to apologise for.

Would be interested in knowing how you get on with the press over the next few weeks, in the market to upgrade mine

[GoonerGary]

I would like to know how they are in 7 months time? I'm building a mug press tower in the storage cupboard. How do I sneak these into landfill?

[paul 44]

Pete, will do, it's quite a light press but has a suction cup on the base which is good to have, i've only done a few on it so far but for the money it seems ok, I found the pressure pretty limp wristed with the screws tight but the mugs printed ok to be fair. Going by subliblanks, I stuck the mugs in for 180 secs (with a pre-heat) and they printed fine.

The instructions are dire, just chuck them in the bin as they make no sense at all lol but it's pretty straight forward to operate, it looks good to, nice design to.
Here is a link to a video that Paul did on it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLMh_3rmY1Y