RPM Revolution Features

musterdbom

Here's the patent history break down:
http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignm...at&pat=5592877

screenprintguy

I'm not sure about other printers's areas, but I know for us, the ambient conditions play a huge factor in settings. I run a certain customer's 8 color design every two weeks. Every two weeks settings change pretty drastically, even if I'm using a set of screens from the previous run, it could be humid as a swamp here that day, and the next run hot and dry, and plastisol likes to do it's own thing sometimes. I'm not sure how "total" recall of settings would do for us, but I do know that I am looking forward to the day when we step into the realm of more print head control, ac heads, servo index, quartz flashes ect. Don't get me wrong all of those digital settings are cool and I'm sure for some shops it might be a big deal, but not for everyone.

srimonogramming

A 7 color job all with different print stroke lengths, the off contact, and flood/print speeds it would save a few minutes. You are right that it takes very little time when you get to know the press to make those changes, I can do print & flood speed, off contact and print length all within 15 seconds tops per screen if I really wanted to. It's almost more of a convenience feature, like the MHM automatic pallet unlocking feature. It takes me literally one second to release our pallets from the print arm, but if a machine did it for me, even better. Oh yeah, flash settings for a particular tough substrate would be nice to have just pop up from recall. I hate when we forget to write the specifics on the job folder, which means we'd probably forget to add the job to the data storage as well on occasion.

screenprintguy

Muster, what do you run?

screenprintguy

yes, the flash settings for quartz would be nice, with me now and the radiants, it's a game of how long to heat up the boards to be able to run at a nice speed and get the proper flash. I am pushing the envelop doing 8 color printing with a 9 color machine and 1 flash, but we get it done. MHM pallet releases, now we are talking, that is too awesome, lifting heads, love that too, and never having to worry about pallet leveling, that's another attraction. Speaking of that 8 color bi-monthly run, gotta get back out there and line it up, working all day tomorrow and Sunday for a big rush order for them. If I had a 16 color with a few flashes, I'd rock that out reeeeeally fast =). In good time. 2 more payments and it's all paid off, that, makes me reeeally happy =)

srimonogramming

Wow, looking over all the patent crap, thank god for lawyers in that area.

musterdbom

10/12 anatol trident servo w/ a/c heads. The controls at the head are important and save a ton of time. I can't imagine walking back and forth for test print or not having the half-index feature to check each screen alignment.

RPM has done a great job bringing digital technology into presses. The only thing that bugs me (and Alan a little) is the ability to control the flash from the main panel.

I think the job storage data will eventually make it out into the market. One problem though is the attention to detail and skillset required to run a smart press jumps up a little bit unless the boss/manager saves the settings after each setup and loads them up before each run. It would take a new mentality to look at the job sheet and load a setup file BEFORE even loading the screens. A learning curve for the current generation, probably second nature to the next!

squeegee

at my company we are all about efficiency, we hunt down anything to save time as much as we can.

I'd like to see machines have job parameters down to stroke lengths, flash times and power settings, pressure settings, speed settings all recallable for a reorder.

MHM can save job settings though not pressure, stroke length, and some other things. We use an ipad to record our data but often enough folks forget to input their jobs and once and a white a complicated job comes back and we have insufficient records. The ipad has taken us away from paper records but doesn't take away the human forgetfullness and that's where a computer can be so useful, imagine a machine that won't let you start the next job without saving the specs from the last job...specs saved to a central place, a server or whatever that can be constantly backed up. This would be a good selling point for us at least, along with the other myriad of time saving features that MHM delivers, I know, another MHM plug but hey, that's why we have MHM's, plain and simple they save time with features that even the laziest press op will have no choice but to use.

Gilligan

I still don't get it... again, maybe I'm just dumb there... but saving settings shouldn't be able to patent. Was being able to adjust squeegee angles patented at first? Could it have been? I mean that seems so rudimentary that it shouldn't be patented.

Oh, starting the car with a push button? You can't do that... we did it first. seems silly.

But I'm not a patent lawyer for sure!

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Gilligan

Robert, it's called a discussion. Not everything will be painted all rosy.

It has been said what is good and what is bad... we just didn't put 40 you tube vids in of something that has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the discussion.

And as Alan said... posting that much spam in the time frame you did, well, you lost your privileges to do what you wanted to do. If you could have done it in a mature fashion then you wouldn't have.

I applaud Marc, if ANYONE came on here and acted the way that you did it should be removed.

I'd have done it a long time ago. People (you for one) hate on Anatol's "service" (see, I just slighted them right there) but it doesn't get yanked because it's not posted about 400 times in an obvious campaign to try and cause turmoil!

You made the bed, now you have to "lie" in it.

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