Sporty-Tex Should we give it a go?

GraphicDisorder

WAS very lucky you mean.

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tonypep

Which reminds me of one of my Elexon stories. They dropped a ginormous machine with wing pallets and all the gadgets in a big shop in LA which was already running 15 autos 2 shifts. Literally if you blinked it would shut down and refuse to re-start. Even caught on fire once. They kept flying in techs and parts sometimes twice a week. Eventually it was hauled away to some poor sap as the delays in production were causing them to get further behind. Mind you this going to revolutionize the industry. Was it free? Perhaps; unless you factor in all the downtime.
Imagine if you were a much smaller shop that could far less afford all that?

Printwizard

Sorry Rich, comprehensive coverage here also, what I meant is a "no-questions" exit clause he would need written into the contract as an out at any time.

Printwizard

Sorry for the side, can someone please give me the history overview of Elexon? I have heard many small one line comments, but couldn't find much on google, even looked images, with zip. Any of them running anywhere, never seen or heard, it's like a ghost brand? Am curious because it had some good people behind it apparently, and local in the US to make it good, yet it sounds like a catastrophic disaster. How and why, and what was learned in hindsight?

srimonogramming

There were some good industry veterans with them back in the day, but I don't know the whole story either. I've heard bits and pieces but not enough to put it all together. I think they tried to do some things as far as features that might have been too far out of reach at the time? Maybe that bit them to a degree and then some good employees got ran off because of others and I'm sure a few guys got plucked by other upstarts, and then the one's that went off on their own. I guess it was multiple things that happened all at once that they couldn't recover from.

californiadreamin

All Assets/ Rights Owned Today or Thrown in the Trash(one or the other)
Started 1994/95 By Former M&R Partner/Founder Alex S.
Rick Fuqua Partner? Elexon
RWB got his screenprint industry start installing/ selling machine
Oval Concept w/individual printheads w/ Lots of digital Features
"The Founders of Better Technology"
Nice Concept/ **** Poor Execution / Worked like Schitt in the real world. Lots of Electrical Interferance. It works,It doesnt work yada,yada yada! Ran Like A Train! Maintanance Nightmare. Company bled money for lots of reasons and at this point not worth talking about. Alex S. still to this day, thinks it was the "best" press ever designed/built.Did they learn from it ? RWB learned that there is a sucker just around the block! The others? Some Did, Some Are Still Dillusional.Ask Any Former Owner!
IMHO- Machine was a CLUSTER*****.
winston

californiadreamin

Should have read,
All Assets/Rights Owned Today By M&R or Thrown in the trash (one or the other)

244

I still have one in the crate if anyone wants one!

californiadreamin

Send It As A Gift To The Chinese! With My Regards!
That will set them back 25 years!

pushing ink

We sent them Robert Barnes, that will set them back for LIFE!!