Recommendations for a secondhand stencil printer

Hello, sir,

Have you ever investigated MPMsmarket price?

Could you please directly mail me your budget and about your details of needs?

That will be helpful to recommend you better.

Thanks.

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I haven't got numbers for older machines. But for recent models DEK is quite clearly bigger than either a Speedprint/Europlacer or an MPM100. Speedprint/Europlacer focuses on its smaller footprint as a selling point, although it looks to me like a Reprint Mantis is smaller again.

All printers seem to be built like tanks but the MPM seems to have another 100Kg+ on its rivals so maybe they really are extra tank like and that's part of the expense, the other being USA built equipment is terrible value outside the USA. Historially in the UK for instance, there have always been lots of MPM 2nd user printers around, I expect there to be far fewer over the next decade or so as the price stinks. For much the same reason we already don't really see UIC placement machines anymore. A random further fact, Chinese printers are often the heaviest of all. If you work with PCBs under 450mm long these can be the same money as a second user big name printer, or even less. If you really long board printers, big name brands can often actually be rebranded printers -sourced from you know where.

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