SEFA vs Stahls?

[gazfocus]

We are looking at buying an additional heat press for doing T-shirts and I’m struggling to decide between the Hotronix IQ and the SEFA Rotex Pro V3. The SEFA is coming out at about £300-400 more than the stahls but I don’t know if it’s a better press.

Curious to hear if anyone has the SEFA and what your opinions are if you have one.

[pw66]

Beware of auto open heatpresses for sublimation. When the electromagnet releases it can cause the transfer to jump, leading to ghosting (on some presses).

Never used either presses, but I gave up using Hotronix in favour of Pressmech. For the cost of the SEFA you could get a Pressmech pneumatic press or 2 of the manual ones.

[gazfocus]

Beware of auto open heatpresses for sublimation. When the electromagnet releases it can cause the transfer to jump, leading to ghosting (on some presses).

Never used either presses, but I gave up using Hotronix in favour of Pressmech. For the cost of the SEFA you could get a Pressmech pneumatic press or 2 of the manual ones.

I’ve not heard of pressmech before but they look like very ghetto…will research them though. My main requirement is to have something programmable so we can have a setting for htv, a setting for coasters, keyrings, etc, and also something that can feed T-shirts properly.

The sefa is very soft at opening from the videos I’ve seen so eliminates the judder when opening, though I do get your point about that and is one reason I’ve discounted the Galaxy presses.

[pw66]

I’ve not heard of pressmech before but they look like very ghetto…will research them though. My main requirement is to have something programmable so we can have a setting for htv, a setting for coasters, keyrings, etc, and also something that can feed T-shirts properly.

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I personaly stear clear of anything programmable - far to much to go wrong, and potentialy expensive to repair if it does.
Unless you have a turnover of inexperienced staff is there any real benefit to having programable settings? It might save a few seconds but you still have to wait several minutes for the temperature to adjust which outweighs the time saving.

You are right that the SEFA is a very different animal to the Galaxy presses. There was a used SEFA on ebay recently - it might still be there.

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We have a SEFA auto-open, and it has been fantastic for the past 2 years since getting it from Xpres, lovely machine.