Multi mug press

[Justin]

Just got their price list though today so looking with interest at the 4 head machine. Good to hear from someone who's seen them.....but immediate thoughts are these are very expensive so I'm expecting something pretty special!

[Postcard]

Just got their price list though today so looking with interest at the 4 head machine. Good to hear from someone who's seen them.....but immediate thoughts are these are very expensive so I'm expecting something pretty special!

The full tech specs are available for download on the website. Be keen to know if you feel they warrant the price? I may start another thread specifically on these presses to maybe catch the eye of someone who has experience of them.

[Andrew]

Looks expensive compared to what is about these days. It would have to be far superior to some of the others to justify. What are the replacement element costs?

[ASLCreative]

My concern with a 4 head machine is what happens if it breaks down - you are immediately without a machine and have no production ouput.

At least with 4 separate machines if one goes down, you have 3 others while you wait for delivery of another machine.

Andrew

[Justin]

Eggs and baskets springs to mind?

[Postcard]

My concern with a 4 head machine is what happens if it breaks down - you are immediately without a machine and have no production ouput.

fair point well made - however its the difference of about £200 for four heads instead of two presses. -I'm led to believe the heads operate independently with separate cut-off switches so you'd have to be talking full arbitrary (basket!) failure.

[Justin]

Surprised more folk haven't mentioned the ovens for longer runs. I worked with a couple of the smaller ovens a while back but wasn't really happy. Maybe the larger ovens as mentioned briefly here would be a good option.

[Andrew]

Ovens don't seem popular for some reason. Presses are more convenient possibly but ovens are more flexible on what you can print.

With the multi presses, if something goes wrong it tends to be just an individual head and most of the time just the element part.

[Traynor26]

I have one of the 'blue machines' single head, mine is orange and bought from a company here in Germany, was rather expensive, but i love it. My suppler also has the 4 mug machines, will have a look at his prices.

[socialgiraffe]

I print thousands of mugs and have never even considered an oven, not sure why, perhaps its a hangover from my screen printing days when I had a textile dryer. I think you need to give the national grid warning before you fire up one of them

I presume I have always thought it would be the same with any other oven. It would be interesting if anyone knew the difference in cost between running a 5 mugs at a time press versus an oven. I know that I can get about 50 mugs per hour from one 5 in one and if I run two it increases to 80. Anyone here know what an oven can do?