"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
I haven't looked in a couple of years, but what can the difference in a monthly note really be between an 8 color pneumatic and an 8 color servo? Not sure....
I am going to be a loner here and vote for more heads on the air machine. I have a 10 color gauntlet Deuce and I friggen love it....we also have a 6 color early generation gauntlet and there is a major difference between the two. So I would drop a vote for a current (atleast year 2000 on up) all air machine and hell, you can do just the same with that as ac... not as fast, quite, nice but it'll do what you want it to...ac is the bees knees but man, it is NOT necessary to have a great press....but this is my humble opinion
I think if you go air, do yourself a favor and trade all your mesh in for S thread or equivalent. S thread almost negates the advantages of AC heads if you were using standard thread mesh counts on the AC driven press, in my opinion of course. I just know the advantages and differences in speed we see going from standard mesh to S thread is huge on an AC head so I'm assuming you'll see similar gains on an air driven carriage, but I've been wrong before.
Quote from: alan802 on October 03, 2013, 06:18:28 PMI think if you go air, do yourself a favor and trade all your mesh in for S thread or equivalent. S thread almost negates the advantages of AC heads if you were using standard thread mesh counts on the AC driven press, in my opinion of course. I just know the advantages and differences in speed we see going from standard mesh to S thread is huge on an AC head so I'm assuming you'll see similar gains on an air driven carriage, but I've been wrong before.Alan, correct me if I`m mistaken but didn`t you used to use as well Newman Roller Mesh. Just asking as most of our frames are stretched with Newman Mesh but we have changed now a few to Murakami and NBC S-mesh. For us with our Diamondback it`s much easier to print using the S-mesh so I might start changing more screens to s-mesh.