Hi Peter,
We have had our CTS for a little over 8 months, Our is a Planet B Technologies, which we purchased thru Saati Americas.
The machine and formatt is GREAT, we can image a screen in minutes, with a new film positive every time, and the ressolution is thru the roof!!!! The labor, and the cost of film, is where the saving is noticed, It now costs about .15 to image a screen, I am so sold on the process, that I have ordered a second machine at a cost of $60,000.00, I can not say enough about the beneifits we are recieving from ownership of our 1st CTS. Buying thru Saati was the best choice ever!
Hope this is helpful, please email, or call me if you have more questions
Regards,
David Shaw (President)
Ace Transfer Company, Inc.
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It is very nice to hear that you are satisfied with CTS. How many screens you process daily?
I have two M&R automatic machines and I think the next step is CTS but I can't decide. What about CMYK jobs?
We do up to 100 images, or screen a day, right now we run our cts about 12 hours a day, to keep up with our production, that why I ordered another unit, to continue our growth, and to have a backup!
Planet B, is coming out with a table top unit, for screens up to 23" x 31" max, starting around $28-30,000, plus freight & crate.
Our registration is right on, the machine should reproduce up to an 85 line screen, we have customer that has 8 autos, and they have been using a Planet B "Sprite" for about 9 months now, and love it, and they too are looking to purchase another one.
I hope this is helpfu, I am completely sold on the concept, It works for Ace!
The Planet B brand is pretty well known in the United States - not sure about overseas. I think there are even some of them in Honduras. Been around for 3+ years from what I can remember.
Ahhh I have about 20 screens per day, I guess it is to little. And my screens are 23x33.
Thank you very much for informations
Regards, Bozidar
That really depends on whether you think your business is going to grow explosively, and whether you can get a good deal on your equipment, or not.
If you can get a bigger/better/faster machine for only a slightly higher investment, then it can really save you a lot of growing pains.
If, on the other hand, you only intend to do a certain amount of business and have no real thought of exapansion anytime soon; then it might just be a little wasted money to go a bit bigger.
Just take a good look at where you honestly expect (not where you hope) the business to be in another year or two, and make your plans based on that.
Sometimes spending a little more cash up front saves a lot of expansion expenses later on.
Any experience of CTS? 
