Hello Bill
A colleague here at ACW just told me about your question and as we have a few of these machines I feel that I'm in a position to answer you.
Prior to 2007 we only used DEK265 (GS & GSX) machines and these we getting a bit old and passed it so we started to look around at what else was available. Initially we were mainly concidering staying with DEK and possibly looking at MPM but we decided to put 1 other supplier in the mix and we added Speedprint.
I am VERY glad that we did. As you have noticed, they are reasonably priced and not overly complicated. The machines are very easy to set up and operate.
When we looked at the performance of the Speedprint machines there was no difference in print quality or speed between them or DEK/MPM and the simplified design suggested to us that there was going to be less to go wrong.
All of the above has proved to be true and we now have 4 machines installed in the UK, 3 machines in China (Zhuhai) and 1 machine in the USA (Durham, NC).
I (we) are extremely happy with the machines and the support that we get from Speedprint. They are part of the Europlacer group and have the back up of their service and installation engineers so we never have a problem with servicing/support etc.
One further point. The machines can be fitted with a laser guided support pin set up. This is an extremely good and simple system that ensures repeatability between machine set-ups and its an option that I can truly recommend. (Much better than the various tooling pin options that DEK have come up with over the last 20 years.)
Please feel free to contact me with any further questions.
Mark Austin
Process Engineer ACW Technology Ltd Southampton UK
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