Single station "press"

[Stinkhorn Press]

http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/for/5361148478.html

What is this? It looks seriously goofy to me.
I started printing in a basement on a single station press (4 screw-on threaded rods per wooden screen for multi-color). Looks like a similar concept.

[Frog]

http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/for/5361148478.html

What is this? It looks seriously goofy to me.
I started printing in a basement on a single station press (4 screw-on threaded rods per wooden screen for multi-color). Looks like a similar concept.

Yes, but did yours also include the dryer and exposure unit?
That's a Press-A-Print. Printa has something similar for self containment but uses a conventional carousel

[Stinkhorn Press]

Yes, but did yours also include the dryer and exposure unit?

Surely didn't. It's not a terrible concept for the right need. Mine was the low rent version of this (but I had no idea til now there was a "fancy" version). I bought a 70's kitchen oven to be my first dryer and a halogen on a stick for my exposure unit. Gotta do what you gotta do when your total space is roughly 400 sq ft in the in-laws basement.

[mimosatexas]

That's one of the press a print pieces of crap.  They basically sell you what you can build for about $200 bucks for $5k+.  If you troll craigslist everyday like I do you will see dozens of these being sold in pretty much every big city by people who were "scammed" into overpaying for them.

[Dottonedan]

Yeah, not good for production, but this would make for a good sample machine. I believe you can easily register and have no limit on colors. You could sample a 10 color job on here for 1-3 shirts without interfering with your auto or even manual press as long as the size of the print was adequate.

[Screen Dan]

Looks like a super-fancy version of the 1-color tabletop press I got to put in the garage at home.  Had excess inventory of my roller derby team's tee that wasn't moving (because everybody who wanted one bought one).  So I made a screen at work of a bunch of one-liners.  Brought the screen home and f-p-f'ed 1 color slogans using a heat-gun to gel between strokes, cured in the oven in the kitchen.  (I don't bake ever, so, whatever about that.).

For $100 + heat gun (plus laser thermometer for the oven) I considered it a great deal. 

This thing in OPS post, for the price, seems like overkill for my needs and underkill for any real production.  You can get a 4 color table top brand new with inks and screens starter kit for half as much brand new.

...oh yeah, and my one-liner idea moved a ton of dormant inventory quickly.  Totally worth the investment.

[mimosatexas]

except they are built like absolute junk.  You would have better luck building one of these for a few bucks: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/liIn5Ua54oU/hqdefault.jpg

The reason they are selling it used for so much is because they were fleeced when they bought it retail and trying to recoup some of that cost.  It doesnt mean it is worth it at all of course, and like you said you can buy a better built and supported brand new 4 color table top press with all the extras for less...

[Frog]

Like many things we've seen over the years, some of these are attempting to market much more than a piece of equipment.
They are selling "A piece of the ever growing apparel decoration pie" or "Financial freedom in an otherwise uncertain world of retirement", or "second income in your garage or spare bedroom"
Take your pick, it's a proven sales pitch.

[larryk]

My first purchase for screen printing cost me fifty bucks more than what he is asking and was not as good as that one...... but it got me into the business. It didn't take me long to figure out there was real money to be made and upgrades were made as needed. In my opinion it would be a good starter for someone wanting to test the water or like Dan stated a good sample press.

[Itsa Little CrOoked]

This is what got me into screenprinting. I still have two of them.

A piece of 4X8 MDO from a billboard panel changeout provided a work table on two sawhorses. Wooden frames. Masking tape for registration stops. And some 2x6x12's slotted for holding blanks to air dry. That was my setup. The sun makes one heck of an exposure unit.