People need to consider the speed as a real feature not because it can print 1500pcs an hour but because it can speed up the longer stroke jobs. Think about it if you need to wait for a long stroke to complete then you want to gain speed some where else and if its in the indexing then thats a win win. I know I cannot stand it when I got to print a large image and have to wait on the servo to index then reset as well.
^^^This!
We seem to run faster on or press that does not lift the boards because WHILE it is indexing it is ALSO flooding. It has been a long day and as I type that it doesn't make sense in my head(the logic behind more numbers part). So please excuse me if that doesn't add up.
I just know when we run the non table lifting press we seem to run jobs faster on it.
I shouldn't be considered any reliable source, but I'm in the heads down camp. Either will run faster than you can handle, but when I looked for a press I was sold on the heads down. I also wasn't really in tune to what everything did amongst all the presses, but I personally thing there was a general consensus that all things being "equal" that MHM was the press to have and their best presses where all heads down presses, thus I wanted a heads down press if I was going to buy a press. There are only like 7 presses that are heads down presses? or something close to that, 3 MHMs, 3 SRoques, 1 M&R right now. most of these seem to be the premium presses right now and are all heads down. Dodn't know if thats a real good answer but its the one I got
Just to bust your balls because I haven't talked to you for a while...
I count 4 MHMs, 4.5 S.Roques, 2 M&Rs and a partridge and a pear tree....
