Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 01 15:18:58 EST 1999 | doug clement
| | My company recently purchased 3 new Phillips CSM machines and is interested in buying a Screen Printer. The one problem we have is that we have to change setups three to four times a day. Due to the small runs of one type of boards that we do.
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 05 17:38:27 EDT 2006 | flipit
I have a lot of experience on 1995 vintage Dek 248 and Dek 249. The 1995 to 1997 vintage were not the best. If Dek has improved them, great! If not, then I would not buy one. Dek 265 is a great printer. Dek did not put a lot of support into Dek
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 17 23:15:23 EST 2006 | fastek
I would also add that I think MPM has a far superior semi-auto printer (SPM) to DEK.
Electronics Forum | Fri May 27 16:27:14 EDT 2005 | cmiller
Could be a lot of things but try this, on the SPM that we have the lead screw that moves the blades up and down runs through a piece of threaded plastic. When it strips out, it starts to cause all kinds of wierd problems. The replacement part we got
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 22 11:33:24 EST 2007 | sliebl
We recently added an SPM printer to our SMT department and I need to buy some tooling pins and center supports. Other than MPM, is there any aftermarket support for this machine? Can anyone point me towards any suppliers for the above mentioned parts
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 02 15:05:38 EDT 2011 | davef
A couple of points: * Just a nit, 'screens' fell in disuse 10-15 years ago. Old habits die slowly don't they? * Yes, DEK and MPM each hold about 50% of the solder paste printer market and about 4 or 5 others hold the rest. SOLDER PASTE PRINTER EQUI
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 11 11:02:23 EST 2005 | russ
i would look at an SPM from MPM(speedline) or an SP200 from Europlacer (speedprint not speedline) We have used both of these machines with great success from 16mil pitch qfps to .5mm pitch uBGAs.
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 16 09:05:15 EST 2006 | adlsmt
We have had an MPM SPM for 5 years that we bought used. It works like a champ, we do down to 19mil pitch with it.
Electronics Forum | Thu May 24 08:29:38 EDT 2007 | bgrant
Hi, Must be the time of year. We just went through the same thing, similar year of printer....It was DOS 6.2
