2M 12 color/14 Station Mustang - AC/Servo

Thanks for all of your comments. @lonewolf, - things, obviously, are easier to maintain if you do it along the way...

With regard to the support and replacement parts, I have the contact info of the owner of 2M in the states and on parts that have been needed over the past 2 years (air valves, replacement bulbs [which was my fault breaking one when rotating the bulb]), I have received support and the replacement parts at a speed no slower than what you'd expect to receive from M&R (yep, next day). This direct contact info of the owner of 2M will be passed on to the buyer. By the way, the main parts that would fail can be bought at Grainger as well, as I did for some valves for backups and could've bought direct from the maker of the bulbs (in the USA), but at a more expensive price. Other than that, unless you take a blow torch to the press, you won't have any real down time, especially with the calibrating tool should it ever be needed. Thanks for the comments.

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Bill, at least let us know which of the two you were looking at ;-).

No stroke adjust? Huh?

Wait, did someone who owns a beige press (albeit a very nice beige press) just insult the color blue? ;-)

Having used both at length I see a pro and con to each, but the con on the mechanical proxy sensors is more of a limited con than that of the digital:

(A) Where the Digital Stroke Adjustment is more Beneficial: If you (1) gang images on screens with a SHORT image (like a left chest) on one side and a TALL image (like 18+") on the other AND (2) you are using discharge/waterbase then the digitial stroke adjustment will be your better bet. Both conditions would need to be met, however.

(B) Where the Mechanical Proxy Sensor is more Beneficial: When not having the above 2 conditions met, every time you set up a job. It's unequivocally faster. Moreover, if you start pushing the limits (if you start pushing the 18" tall print size limit for example) of the Digital stroke adjustment, it can fall into a window of space where there's a delay in the flood. You can overcome it by speeding up the flood so that it arrives right when the table needs to come up, but why add more stress to your machine if unnecessary?

As you mention, Alan, neither would be a deal breaker for me, for it's not like the digital stroke setup takes THAT much longer any more than it's that big of a deal for the discharge/waterbase crowd ganging up images on screens. Worth noting nevertheless. What would be more of a deal breaker is image size -- 16"x18" standard on the RPM vs. 20"x24" on the Mustang. That, at least for us, has been a huge selling point for some of our clients - the size we could print their designs.

Great points!