How old, how much are you willing to spend? Depending on your budget, there could be better options. They aren't bad machines by any means, millions of shirts are printed everyday with those two autos. If I only had to choose between those two machines I'd go with the Olympian because it has chopper style squeegees and floodbars and doesn't use the V-squeegee system. There are drawbacks to the V-squeegee and the chopper style is superior. The Olympian is a bigger machine and was their best offering at the time. There are way more Javelins out there than Olympians but the Olympian was built to be the better, more capable machine.
TUF Javelin/Olympian print quality
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Carlo, not sure how or why anyone would have problems... unless they don't know what they're doing. I've attached a few of our latest jobs printed on the Tuf Freedom. No issues what so ever.
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Ain't that the truth! Although I would point out that knowing what you're doing is no guarantee of never having problems.
Back to topic--If it's in good shape, it doesn't sound out of line to me. If you don't know your way around autos, it really doesn't matter what brand or model you're looking at--get someone who knows them to check it out. There are problems that can make any great auto into a very inconvenient paperweight. If you're planning on buying any used auto, finding a tech who's worth their salt would be job #1, in my book. A new press should come with one or two.
Ain't that the truth! Although I would point out that knowing what you're doing is no guarantee of never having problems.
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well, maybe I should have worded that, "not being able to figure out what's causing the problems"
because yes I agree... everyone will run into problems. The machine only does what you tell it to do. If your squeegee angles are wrong, pressures are wrong, using the wrong durometer squeegees, wrong off contact.... the list goes on and on.
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