Hello everyone,
My wife and I will be purchasing a machine soon to start a home based business. We have a nitch in the market and are pretty sure it'll fly. It's now decision time on witch machine to buy.
I've noticed that in this forum nobody really expresses strong loyalty for any one machine so I hope I'll get some pointed advise.
We've done our homework and have narrowed our choices down to three different brands. They are Tajima, Happy and Brother. We'll choose one single head from these brands.
My wife actually flew to Charlotte to see all of them up and running at the Print Wear Show. At the show they all ran great naturally, but then they always do at shows

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We like the Tajima Neo but it cost almost double what the Brother PR 600 II does. The Happy is interesting but they don't offer training or support here in the Northwest. They do offer online training but that seems iffy.
We'll be doing mostly caps and shirts that are 6 colors or less.
Right now we're leaning towards Brother because of price and service. The dealer has a package deal going that includes two each of all the standard hoops, two hat hoops, thread, stand and Pfaff 4D software for under $9,000. The dealer is 5 minutes from our house too.
The Tajima has basically the same deal but it cost more than $16,000.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Brother versus Tajima and Happy.