June 19th, 2015, 11:17 AM
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Re: 2M 12 color/14 Station Mustang - AC/Servo
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Originally Posted by srimonogramming
I do love our digital stroke control on our RPM but would not hesitate to buy a press that used the traditional proxy sensor method to control stroke length. Proxy sensor is actually faster than digital in setting length, and any loss in accuracy wouldn't be enough to tell or matter with textile printing, in my opinion.
I love the additional features of this press versus the RPM, and wish RPM would keep the extra bells and whistles for the Revolution, especially the individual, tool-less print head off-contact control. I love that feature of this press. The way they did the servo lift is also cool, and very reliable and durable. It's not tan, but everything else about it is a winner.
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Having used both at length I see a pro and con to each, but the con on the mechanical proxy sensors is more of a limited con than that of the digital:
(A) Where the Digital Stroke Adjustment is more Beneficial: If you (1) gang images on screens with a SHORT image (like a left chest) on one side and a TALL image (like 18+") on the other AND (2) you are using discharge/waterbase then the digitial stroke adjustment will be your better bet. Both conditions would need to be met, however.
(B) Where the Mechanical Proxy Sensor is more Beneficial: When not having the above 2 conditions met, every time you set up a job. It's unequivocally faster. Moreover, if you start pushing the limits (if you start pushing the 18" tall print size limit for example) of the Digital stroke adjustment, it can fall into a window of space where there's a delay in the flood. You can overcome it by speeding up the flood so that it arrives right when the table needs to come up, but why add more stress to your machine if unnecessary?
As you mention, Alan, neither would be a deal breaker for me, for it's not like the digital stroke setup takes THAT much longer any more than it's that big of a deal for the discharge/waterbase crowd ganging up images on screens. Worth noting nevertheless. What would be more of a deal breaker is image size -- 16"x18" standard on the RPM vs. 20"x24" on the Mustang. That, at least for us, has been a huge selling point for some of our clients - the size we could print their designs.
Great points!
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