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Going Digi for the 1st time – which machine?
Hi all, first post back in a while! Just wanted to get some advice on how to determine what machine we need, and hopefully sidestep as many landmines as possible.
Ok, the family are looking to go Digi, we currently do about 50 sheets of correx a day. Currently we’re chatting to a supplier about getting a HP H45500 in to migrate most of the work to now, and slowly phase out the old kit.
I proposed that we use several criteria:
1) Reputation for reliabilty; I appreciate outages occur with all makes, but like with Ebay reputations, there’s a big difference between 96% satisfied and 99.9% satisfied, and that 3.9% difference could cost us a lot more than 3.9% of our business!!
2) Ink costs: if these HP’s are anything like their little residential desktop kid brothers, the cost of the inks is going to be HUGELY greater than their competitors. I was thinking an Epson would be better – but apparently, they don’t do this spec of printer;
3) Speed: If this printer "does what it says on the tin", then it’s 36m/s; obviously we want to start regrowing the business, so speed will be an issue, later on, but it’s another of those things you have to get right from the outset;
4) Backout plan: if things don’t go right for some reason, we don’t want to be left with a machine we can’t liquidise without incurring a big loss; should we set up a lease plan,
5) Last, but of course not least, price; is there a way to avoid main dealer prices but have a maintenance procedure? I don’t mind paying callout + overtime if there’s a prominent saving.
Thanks in advance all, feel free to shout if I need to clarify anything.
JB
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So you want a flatbed printer specifically?
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quote Jason Xuereb:So you want a flatbed printer specifically?Yep. Must have rollers to print on banners.
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