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| What you know now, would you buy the F2100 Again? So you own a Epson F2100. Would you buy it again or run as far away as possible. I am familiar with DTG printers and am thinking about buying the F2100 so I was hoping to hear from actual owners what they think of there machines. Thank you |
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| Re: What you know now, would you buy the F2100 Again? I would absolutely buy it again. Mine still purrs like a kitten. Of course I am meticulous about taking care of it also. |
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| Re: What you know now, would you buy the F2100 Again? I would buy it again (actually I did as this is our 3rd DTG printer, 2 of which were the Epson F series). That being said, I would encourage anyone looking to get into DTG to do their homework.
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| Re: What you know now, would you buy the F2100 Again? That's funny how you and I have the same set up. Cheerio!  |
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| Re: What you know now, would you buy the F2100 Again? Trust me, the F2100 is a little bit faster and maybe it does have a cleaner cart in it but it's not really any better than the F2000 IMHO. Just sayin' |
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| Re: What you know now, would you buy the F2100 Again? Well, no one from Epson has said anything to me about the F2130 at all and there have been videos about it on YouTube for a good while now. Don't think this is the new F series Epson printer but that is just a guess. |
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Originally Posted by BerkshirePrint |  | | | | | | | So you own a Epson F2100. Would you buy it again or run as far away as possible. I am familiar with DTG printers and am thinking about buying the F2100 so I was hoping to hear from actual owners what they think of there machines. Thank you | |  | |  | | Good question. They are workhorses. Love mine. The process of printing DTG took about a year to master, and that's a generous statement. We have breakthroughs all the time. Still learning a lot. Just feeling comfortable now. That's what I wish I knew ahead of time. Learning DTG is like learning how to cook. Every ingredient changes the mix and the outcome.
As for the machine itself, I have 1. I wish I had 5. Printing 8 shirts an hour on maximum quality is slow, but good for retail prices. Printing white shirts at a clip of 30-45 per hour on speed mode can be decent depending on the artwork but you have to spend time colour matching etc and fine tuning the settings for each job which takes time.
It's a great tool but if you're new to DTG, I would take a full week-long training course to save yourself the time I spent learning.
One other thing, you should get 2 heat presses. 1 is not enough really. It becomes a bottleneck if you want to run a fluid job. Wish I knew that too.
There's also this other issue I'm investigating and depending upon the outcome, you may want to formulate your decision based on the findings. You can read more here: https://www.t-shirtforums.com/epson-...s/t880241.html
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| Re: What you know now, would you buy the F2100 Again? Yup. All true. I have been preaching in here for a couple of years about the DTG learning curve and the fact that the heat press is indeed the bottle neck of speed in a DTG print environment.
Now that I have three DTGs and three heat presses (I really need about 2 more) I can output full color prints at around 35 to 40 an hour easily.
One note though, the more heat presses the hotter your area gets and the less humidity in the room. The bigger the room the better when going with a multiple DTG setup. |
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| Re: What you know now, would you buy the F2100 Again? F2130 is India's F2100  |
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