TAS? Anyone?

[RICK STEFANICK]

that's probably true. I had not been up there for several years. sorry rich..well he once had a few TAS..LOL

[Prosperi-Tees]

Of all machinery in and out in 20 years of running screenprint shop, TAS has really lowest cost of maintenance and greatest reliability.  For over 10 mil prints my two TAS machines did, we had technician visiting us once!  All other repairs were minor and done by us. Lacks some fancy features, but never ever did we need to say to customer: We didn't manage to print your order due to press breakdown.

This was a quote from Boris. Which is why I am researching TAS.

[Prosperi-Tees]

For what it's worth, there are 2 or 3 ROQ techs in the LA area...

Hey Alex is it true that you never have to level the platens? Is there much deflection in the platens?

[scrubz]

I have a 2013 10/12 Compact.  Yes it is true, there is NO deflection.  Each platen is as solid as a steel bench.  No bells or whistles, but I love this sweet ass machine.  I do miss not being able to adjust the platens forward or back that my Diamondback had.  The center micros work well, on average one adjust gets me running.  The tool plate platens are simple, well designed and easy to change...I didn't want to pay shipping and exchange for a set of sleeve pads, so I had set made for me here in Canada, you can't do that with most auto's without paying a fortune.  I don't work for TAS, I just like the press.   Oh, and Melinda at TAS America helped me a great deal, even though I bought the press used, she still found time to answer many questions and a lot of them were dumb ones.

[TCT]

Correct, they were leveled when it was installed. I don't have to put up with that BS anymore!

[Ross_S]

"Just a side note.  If you are mentioning the TAS 3000 that is on digitsmith just know that is an enormous machine probably in the 20' plus range.  It is designed for all over printing before they came out with the 4000 model.

As I stated and a few others as well if your looking for a solid used press it is difficult to beat these machines so long as you can deal with no bells and whistles.  If you wait long enough I might put my 12 color back up for sale.

[T Shirt Farmer]

I owned 3 TAS machines over 20 years bar none the best pallet arms with no deflection period. Master frame clamp / registration systems is user friendly and accurate. Never missed a single due date because of the press not working, had a small transformer go out the replacement came from Graingers. Everything else is old school and time consuming but rock solid machines.

[colintas]

Hey guys.

I must say, I was pleasantly surprised to come across this thread and to read all of the positive feedback from our existing customers.

Unfortunately over recent years maybe our profile in the US has not been as prominent as it could have been. As you all may be aware, we seldom exhibit at trade shows these days as we felt a little apathy towards them from many of our customers, but we do realise that they provide a necessary platform to promote our products and services and so we may look to re-address this in the future.

Regardless of our attendance at trade show however, I can confirm that TAS are still producing our legendary range of equipment, it continues to perform with the quality and reliability that you have all been so gracious to point out and never in my (un)biased opinion have our products ran faster and smoother and performed better.

Thanks once again for all your kind words and hopefully it will inspire some of you to give us a call! :