Multi mug press

[swinds]

I have a single mug press, but have seen the multi ones - 5 in one type thing - can anyone reccomend one ??

have seen one on ebay for 169 + 169 postage from china - but dont really want to go down the china route if i dont have to

many thanks

karl

[Justin]

Personally I prefer to keep my presses separate. I've heard mixed opinions on the multi presses.

[pisquee]

It's something on my shopping list for if/when we get a big enough mug job to warrant it - would also like any opinions from people who do have one.

[WorthDoingRight]

Well, I wonder how often you would need to do 5 at a time? I wonder given the fact that mug presses seem to be available from around £80 whether buying 3 or 4 of those might not be better idea. At least if one breaks down the others probably will still work and if you ever realise you dont need all of them you can sell the surplus. Also makes better sense to me if you had 3 presses to keep 1 for 10/11 oz, 1 for Latte and 1 for smaller 6oz type items.

[bigj2552]

only thing i can see usage for a 5 mug press is -
doing bulk runs for corporate/business, where designs are all the same.
doing runs to sell on market stall, where you would do batch's of the same designs to sell on stall.
other than that......na, canny see the point really.
but horses for courses an all that

[Justin]

I mainly do runs of water bottles, possibly 100 at a time. Also do runs of mugs 36+ so multi press option would have been perfect to speed things up.

You're right in what you say though, separate mug presses are a good option and something I toyed with (and will now go back to I think)

I'm surprised we haven't seen more multi mug presses, Adkins do a cracking 2 head unit but expensive. Can it really be difficult to run 2 heads off one supply? I wouldn't have though so.

[Andrew]

I've had several different versions of twin head and 5 head options. All have different benefits and downfalls. I have a few of the 5 heads that run off one supply unit and also tried the 5 head from CG. Also, a couple of the twin heads from NovaChrome which were expensive at the time. Like mentioned above, it's horses for courses and you need to have specific orders to warrant the extra hassle and investment. Nothing wrong with the oven route for larger orders which is where we have now headed. We can get 48 mugs in to an oven and suppose we could get an even bigger one to further this. The main thing we have found is that most ways work but there is no point complicating thing unless really of benefit. If the multi orders rarely come through the doors stick to what you know.

[Justin]

I've bought another single head press to speed production up. Obviously these 5 head machines aren't much good by the sounds of it

I've used the NovaChrome double head machine before and don't rate it, as you mention, very expensive. The new Adkins machine looks very nice but as we've said before, can you justify such a high price when you could buy half a dozen single head presses for the same price!?

[Andrew]

The best 5 head I have used so far is the heatpressuk version. Only 1 position thermostat but prints the best out of the few others on the market.

[Justin]

But £900??? Press mechanisms look the same as on a £100 machine.