Re: Sunfly A4 film machine review
Posted: 21 Jun 2016, 04:45
Hello everybody, I received 2 weeks ago a new machine that Sunfly recently made (I think it's not yet in their catalog but well).
Video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7l9k09bnl4z5i ... e.mp4?dl=0
(In this video, the machine is naked, I will post tomorrow a photo of its actual look.)
I paid $900 for the machine (normally $1000 I asked a discount lol), $200 for jigs (2x iPhone & 6x Samsung Galaxy), $45 for 50 sheets of A4 film and $315 for shipping to France by DHL (invoice total: $1460). Total payment was €1315.60 with bank fees, I also paid €153 VAT (declared customs value was $250) when I received it. It took 2 weeks to produce and ship, the machine weighs roughly 60kg in its carton so don't go to pick it up alone.
As for the machine, it works fine, the only small problem is that the corners don't fold very well with iPhone 4 & 5 cases (I'll post photos tomorrow), I will investigate this issue in the coming days (maybe I have to do it myself lol). Other ones that have round corners (iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy's) are fine. It can do 2 cases at 115C for 180S.
2 small problems with Sunfly (again, I'll post photos tomorrow), that are not related to the machine:
1. Their blanks (plastic with coating) are for film, making that they are smaller than polymer ones (those that are used for paper at 180C) and fit exactly the jig, and sometimes they shrink too much and they are fu***d up but it's quite rare. But you can still use polymer cases of other providers that will shrink normally, but as I said it's rare, and you can still cook at 100C for like 240/360S.
2. Their film is weird because if you print something that has for example horizontal lines, they will not be horizontal lol. In other words, while stretching it doesn't print the exact shapes of the image. I tried other films (gold, silver, transparent, all from other providers) and they don't have this problem, Ivan from Sunfly even admitted that it is a problem that they didn't solve yet.. Once again, I have to investigate this, maybe I have to reduce vacuum delay time (7 seconds) because their film is thinner than the other ones.
Well that's all, I'll update this post with photos and solutions to my problems if I solve them (if anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated). Any questions ?
Video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7l9k09bnl4z5i ... e.mp4?dl=0
(In this video, the machine is naked, I will post tomorrow a photo of its actual look.)
I paid $900 for the machine (normally $1000 I asked a discount lol), $200 for jigs (2x iPhone & 6x Samsung Galaxy), $45 for 50 sheets of A4 film and $315 for shipping to France by DHL (invoice total: $1460). Total payment was €1315.60 with bank fees, I also paid €153 VAT (declared customs value was $250) when I received it. It took 2 weeks to produce and ship, the machine weighs roughly 60kg in its carton so don't go to pick it up alone.
As for the machine, it works fine, the only small problem is that the corners don't fold very well with iPhone 4 & 5 cases (I'll post photos tomorrow), I will investigate this issue in the coming days (maybe I have to do it myself lol). Other ones that have round corners (iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy's) are fine. It can do 2 cases at 115C for 180S.
2 small problems with Sunfly (again, I'll post photos tomorrow), that are not related to the machine:
1. Their blanks (plastic with coating) are for film, making that they are smaller than polymer ones (those that are used for paper at 180C) and fit exactly the jig, and sometimes they shrink too much and they are fu***d up but it's quite rare. But you can still use polymer cases of other providers that will shrink normally, but as I said it's rare, and you can still cook at 100C for like 240/360S.
2. Their film is weird because if you print something that has for example horizontal lines, they will not be horizontal lol. In other words, while stretching it doesn't print the exact shapes of the image. I tried other films (gold, silver, transparent, all from other providers) and they don't have this problem, Ivan from Sunfly even admitted that it is a problem that they didn't solve yet.. Once again, I have to investigate this, maybe I have to reduce vacuum delay time (7 seconds) because their film is thinner than the other ones.
Well that's all, I'll update this post with photos and solutions to my problems if I solve them (if anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated). Any questions ?