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Offline Jag

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Zsk or barudan
« on: February 18, 2016, 04:21:51 PM »
Narrowed my choices down to the Zsk or barudan machines. Which would you recommend, based on durability service  and any other experience with the machines.



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Re: Zsk or barudan
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2016, 04:23:37 PM »
Love our Barudans. Can't stress enough how great they've been. Gonna be several here that will echo that as well. We've had no major issues from ours.  We have 2 - 6 Heads.
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Re: Zsk or barudan
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2016, 04:30:42 PM »
we've been running our 6 head barudan for about 8 months now.  We freaking love it.  Our single head arrives tomorrow, we are excited about that too.

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Re: Zsk or barudan
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2016, 04:40:12 PM »
They sew so well and stop so little.
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Re: Zsk or barudan
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2016, 04:43:26 PM »
got a new Barudan back in November, maybe had 3 thread breaks since then!
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Re: Zsk or barudan
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2016, 05:20:26 PM »
It's been years since we had a ZSK. I found it did very well on flats but always seemed to struggle on caps
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Re: Zsk or barudan
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2016, 08:10:42 PM »
Barudan here for over two years. Never a day down they run hard 40-50 hours a week non stop. The only brand I will ever own.
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Re: Zsk or barudan
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2016, 09:25:13 PM »
Thank you for your experience. Looks like I'm going barudan

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Re: Zsk or barudan
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2016, 08:22:16 AM »
Barudan KILLS it on caps.  We always struggled on the SWF with those.

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Re: Zsk or barudan
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2016, 08:26:37 AM »
SWF can do caps fine, but you have to spend a lot more time in digitizing to make them happy. 
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Re: Zsk or barudan
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2016, 08:31:09 AM »
Of the two I would go Barudan.  Can I ask what eliminated Tajima?
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Re: Zsk or barudan
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2016, 12:07:39 PM »
I worked in a shop that had Tajimas and had constant problems with it. Could have just been that machine but left a bad impression.

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Re: Zsk or barudan
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2016, 02:24:07 PM »
I worked in a shop that had Tajimas and had constant problems with it. Could have just been that machine but left a bad impression.
Fair enough.  Thanks for the response.
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Re: Zsk or barudan
« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2016, 01:18:41 PM »
I can't really say anything about the ZSK but generally speaking, Barudan and Tajima are the top embroidery machines and then there is everybody else.  Definitely can say your experience with that Tajima is not normal.  There might be machines that are AS reliable as the Tajima but there isn't anything MORE reliable.  If I were buying a new embroidery machine it would be between Barudan and Tajima.
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