Hi guys,
All three machines are fast, but the mPower machines are industrial and faster than the SPRINT.
Here are some production numbers for each model. This is based on a default setting 600 dpi for the mPower and the default setting 720 dpi for the SPRINT. Also, a graphic size of 10X12, print and load time considered...
The SPRINT can print ~38 light shirts or ~18 dark shirts an hour.
The mPower 5 can print ~60 light shirts or ~30 dark shirts per hour.
The mPower 10 can print ~110 light shirts or ~55 dark shirts per hour.
As you get into the speeds with the mPower 10, the bottle neck starts to become the operator. The shirts will print faster than the time it takes to load. For maximum production, we suggest two heat presses to keep up with the print speeds.
Hope this helps
Ok Karl,
Are we to gather by your numbers here that these are really reliable numbers?? I've used your Anajet for around 4 year (love it by the way) and have never seen the numbers that you claim for the sprint. I know if I use the perfect config, i could find a graphic at 10 X 12 that may work at that speed, but It would not be on a real dark and it would most certainly not be at the "default settings" in EK.
I think that the engineering department and the vision of Chase have created a series of great machines, but the sales end of your company has make everything that comes out of your mouth suspect in the real world. Since you talk in averages for the ink usage of your machines, let us talk averages in the output of your machine and stop BSing the new people in this industry! Your machine has exceeded my expectation of what I believed in the begining. My sales person was honest when pressed for real info. There was BS there, but I could tell that the sales person had limited experience in ink jet technology, and they were using info that they were told in the best possible light. I asked a tech and got the real answer too. Even a person who builds a machine does not know what it will do in a real shop. I had to ask Anajet to lower my expectation so that I'd be happy after the sale! Does that not sound crazy to you!!! I had a lot of knowlege of the DTG industy and I saw all the **** that was going on with DTG and USPIT at the time and I knew that your machine was the answer, but most of the sales people did not have a real clue on how much they were NOT telling the truth. What Im saying Karl is let us exceed our expectations rather than base a lease and business model on a total fabrication. You Sir, are doing a dis-service to the company you work for, The person starting a new business and the Industry as a whole.
Karl, I get that you have never stood in front of a printer and printed 18 shirts in an hour. I forgive you for believing in some arbitrary number that someone told you. As homework for you, I would challenge to to call 20 customers that have bought from you and do production runs and ask them what they can print in one hour. This will allow you to give information based in reality and not a number that is all but impossible to achieve.
As sales people, I uderstand that moving product is your goal. By selling to uninformed customers you are making it hard for your tech people and for the future growth of your company if not being truthful. I see the bad mouth around the forum. Is it because you sell a bad product? I do not think so because I'm a success. Some people have that opinion becase the belive what they are told from and enthusiastic and un-informed sales person. The reason is that the sales department is not qualifying the end user and they made the reality too hard or impossible to reach. I give you the benefit of the doubt because I know that you believe. Find out the truth mr. Karl. This is a dream business. You as the front line need to make sure that the dreamer is the customer and that you wake him up to understand the real expectation and help them exceed it.
I help buyer who believe they can print athletc uniform. From the mouth of Anajet sales person " No problem" OMG. 1st day printer in hand 20K spent. Customer dumb for sure but Anajet say yes on polyester and yes on white ink. Sales person knows for sure what customer expected but shuts mouth because you figure sale is better than no sale. Sales person gets commission. Anajet gets a customer who is un happy. No Problem? Big Problem. Did sales person lie? Not technically but crime was committed anyway. Customer has lease and machine and has to change is plan on making profit.
Karl, this is not a personal attack, and a apoligize that I say your name so may times, but you may be the person who can change this culture in your company. I would not have had the passion to respond in this way if i did not believe in your product so much and I not being an expert in using your product. I hurts me when people bag talk AJ because I know the truth about the machine. I would like to make the move to Mpower but based on what you say and what I know to be the truth, those numbers for Mpower are not to be trusted and I'll have to ask real users to get the real truth.
, Just a thought though.
