RPM Revolution Features
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September 14th, 2012, 11:15 AM
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I was really wanting that data storage feature when we were looking for a press and right about the time we were buying is when Rick had to stop working on the feature addition. It would have been very cool to load a specific job's settings and everything just be set. I thought MHM's had that feature?
I'm a huge proponent of having as many functions at the printhead as possible. I do not want to walk back to the main control panel for anything while setting a job up. The RPM was exactly what I was looking for at the time. I cannot even begin to tell you how much time we've saved over the last 3 years over our old centurian. And the centurian had plenty of features, touchscreen main control panel and a decent amount at each printhead. There are a lot of things that we've implemented and done to be able to do twice as much work as we did 4-5 years ago, and the press is a big part of that, along with higher tension screens, better mesh count selection and knowledge.
Digital print stroke control is a feature I like, but I'd like it a hell of a lot more if I had the data storage ability. Proxy sensors are fine, easy, fast, reliable, but in my experience, they are the most replaced part on the centurian and it's the only part we've had fail on our RPM. The RPM only has a few proxy sensors on it, two for the table up/down and one for the servo indexer return, and I'm kind of glad there aren't 2 more for every print head. Print stroke control via proxy sensor is not a feature that is a deal breaker one way or the other, if our next press has it or uses encoders, it won't really matter to me either way. The CH III uses proxy's right?
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September 14th, 2012, 11:25 AM
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But Gilligan, it may be a common knowledge/prior art type feature for most computers, it is an automatic screen printing machine over everything else so I think it's fair game to patent that type of a feature as it pertains to the apparatus that is using it. Although there are some questions over where and when that feature was first implemented on a press, maybe a graphics press of some sort had that ability, I can't remember, I seem to remember there being a "prior art" argument on the data storage patent. Whatever, M&R legally holds the rights and that's that.
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September 14th, 2012, 11:58 AM
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Ya Robert made that argument, so did Rick I think. But the reality is the court says M&R is right, so I guess that is all that matters. I don't blame them for protecting something like that.
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September 14th, 2012, 01:05 PM
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Ya Robert made that argument, so did Rick I think. But the reality is the court says M&R is right, so I guess that is all that matters. I don't blame them for protecting something like that.
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Please post a link where "the court says M&R is right"
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September 14th, 2012, 01:12 PM
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I hope it's better than the other "all electric" options out there. I guess it's a big deal for some shops to have an air compressor but I think the fact that most machines have air requirements speaks volumes.
Well, sounds like 2M really wants to move their technology forward, too bad the recent spamming here caused them to lose out on some promoting of their product.
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September 14th, 2012, 01:26 PM
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Didn't take him long to disrespect Marcs updated forum rules.
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September 14th, 2012, 02:06 PM
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Hey Alan, do you think there will be an effect on RPM's factory production? For instance, RPM has a decent sales quarter, but some mustangs are ordered as well, do you think 2m will have an issue meeting deadlines that sales rep's will promis their customers?
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September 14th, 2012, 02:21 PM
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It looks like delivery times are through the roof on the mustang so I'd imagine it's the same with RPM. 25 week delivery times won't fly in this market. I'm not telling them something they don't already know, but it remains to be seen if they'll do something about it. You can have the best product in the world, but if you can't deliver it within a reasonable time frame then it might as well be a piece of junk, it won't matter. No matter how much I liked the RPM, if Rick would have told me "well, it looks like it's going to be 16-20 weeks"...I would have gone elsewhere. We got our press in less than 5 weeks, but I think they had a deal fall through and the press was already in the states being put together. The other shops here in town with RPM's got their machines in around 3-4 months I think.
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September 14th, 2012, 02:30 PM
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I hope it's better than the other "all electric" options out there. I guess it's a big deal for some shops to have an air compressor but I think the fact that most machines have air requirements speaks volumes.
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2M wants to be the first company to offer digital controlled squeegee & floodbar pressure ... plus with this servo type control the squeegee can have a print pressure profile to add special effects
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Originally Posted by srimonogramming
Well, sounds like 2M really wants to move their technology forward, too bad the recent spamming here caused them to lose out on some promoting of their product.
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Yeah ... Apparently only negative spamming of the new 2M product is allowed here ... any effort to combat the negativity is deleted (funny how that works in some industries)
Good News about Elexon patents though ... we are a little more than 36 months away from the patent filing date Oct 25, 1995 ... However ... Elexon did throw this technology out there quite sometime ago (yes there is prior art as well)
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