Game Changers or Dust collectors

[mk162]

Dust collector

Manual Press (Not trying to be a smart ass)

Ours holds drinks or a radio.  We occasionally use it for sleeve prints.  It's a single color, single station, so it almost takes up no space.

[3Deep]

We have a 6/4 manual and we use it all the time for that matter we have a job set up on it now to keep from pulling screens off the auto, so nope I never toss my manual even if we had a very large shop with 4 or more auto's I'd keep a few manual presses around.

[whitewater]

Dust collector

Manual Press (Not trying to be a smart ass)

Ours holds drinks or a radio.  We occasionally use it for sleeve prints.  It's a single color, single station, so it almost takes up no space.

'Radio'. ?

[tonypep]

Indeed what is this "radio" you speak of?

[zanegun08]

the stampinator is a dust collector here

You fell into the gimmicky sales tactics of using it to replace a flash, and inline heat transfers on a press.  Both don't work well 100% of the time, for transfers you have to build up your pallets so much it doesn't make sense.  To replace as a flash your pallets need to be hot, have a quick flashing under base.  But when used in tandem with a flash then you get the best benefit and ease of use.  I get not having enough room but I bet that's like 10% or less of your orders you wouldn't have room for it.

I personally think if they had a removable stand to make it easier to move they may get used more, they are such a PITA to move that that's why I personally think they become dust collectors since people are lazy and have one time issues with ink sticking and go nope, doesn't work. 

It's a really good tool though if used properly, it does "make your prints better" and works much better than a hot head in my opinion.

[tonypep]

Actually that was owner at the trade show without me. Never would have bought it because of the 8-10 color press thing. I believe they are great after flash for the 12 up autos. And yes, a stand option would be smart.

[Admiral]

Dust Collectors:
M&R Hot Head
Old DTG equipment (practically gave away everything, Viper pretreats we couldn't give away...)

Admiral, what do you not like about the hothead?  I was considering one.

We had the flat iron one installed for awhile a couple times but it tends to move shirts and put wrinkles in some every now and then.  More defects and more of a hassle than an improvement to the print.  The roller one may fix that.  Stampinator may fix it too, but I haven't revisited this and having to install 4x of them to match quality across everything would be expensive and possibly hit our productivity too.

[mk162]

Dust collector

Manual Press (Not trying to be a smart ass)

Ours holds drinks or a radio.  We occasionally use it for sleeve prints.  It's a single color, single station, so it almost takes up no space.

'Radio'. ?

A jobsite radio that streams playlists or spotify. No sense in listening to FM, it's ALL political ads.

Smartasses.

[whitewater]

Dust collector

Manual Press (Not trying to be a smart ass)

Ours holds drinks or a radio.  We occasionally use it for sleeve prints.  It's a single color, single station, so it almost takes up no space.

Maybe it's called a bluetooth speaker? (I bet even that is an outdated term).  LOL

We had a guy here a year and half ago... he loved the "radio" .. constantly people talking on commercials and the same ones alll day.. whenever I had to be back there, I told him we had to turn it off.





'Radio'. ?

A jobsite radio that streams playlists or spotify. No sense in listening to FM, it's ALL political ads.

Smartasses.

[spencer_L&KC]

the stampinator is a dust collector here

You fell into the gimmicky sales tactics of using it to replace a flash, and inline heat transfers on a press.  Both don't work well 100% of the time, for transfers you have to build up your pallets so much it doesn't make sense.  To replace as a flash your pallets need to be hot, have a quick flashing under base.  But when used in tandem with a flash then you get the best benefit and ease of use.  I get not having enough room but I bet that's like 10% or less of your orders you wouldn't have room for it.

I personally think if they had a removable stand to make it easier to move they may get used more, they are such a PITA to move that that's why I personally think they become dust collectors since people are lazy and have one time issues with ink sticking and go nope, doesn't work. 

It's a really good tool though if used properly, it does "make your prints better" and works much better than a hot head in my opinion.

What do you mean by building up your pallets? I do not have a stampinator, but considered getting the manual as my small shop is still a manual shop.

Other issues I would see with the stampinator would be when printing hoodies, do folks just press on top of the hoodie pocket? Doesn't that smash the pocket and leave heat marks? And the stampinator works ok for waterbased inks? Or its not necessary for water based since its already pretty smooth?

Feel free to ignore the second question/s. I was just thinking out loud. I will try to search the forum more for those answers if needed, but if you could speak to "building up the pallets" to use the stampinator as an inline heat press, I would appreciate it.