KevSign
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Sorry, I got the post because I was so sad on this happened to us.
We bought 5'x10' UV Flatbed printer from Stratojet Shark and Finance with MMP Capital.
Here are problems we have and sharing for a small company if try invest for the business.
Stratojet Shark 5'x10' with Ricoh Gen6 but the salesman told me it special print-head from Ricoh no one had it. I hope he is right!
But the printer print very bad quality, it was head alignment problems, after get done, but the print was still not good, the dots was a lot of noise not smooth compared to Ricoh Gen5.
After we learn with CMYK Engineering, they told us the waveform is not good on the Ricoh Gen6 needs to adjust or calibrated. Stratojet agreed but took them 5 weeks no fix and if fix needs a special scanner to scan the test print.
Besides, the printer gets overheated then our print is not dry, we throw away a lot of material with this happen. Ink drop middle print too very bad because negative pressure ink keeps dropping.
In 4 months we lost a lot of time, labor, and jobs too. We were threatened to sue for this lost properly $50,000 in the headache we got. But they pick up the printer end of Nov 2021.
They return the money of $125,000 to the bank later in January 2022 from here we get burned from MMP Capital.
The MMP Capital asking us to make sure they get money in full, and then they will give us money to buy another printer but they want us to re-apply for the loan again. I said no because we did not stop payment with bad printers.
We want them just pay for the equipment then we continue payment and need a printer to print and pay the bank. After we found the printer, took them over 5 days not to get back to us but they already get $125,000 back. I told them that MMP Capital cannot help them return the principal, we were okay to lost almost $4,000 interested. MMP Capital guy told me NO my loan cannot cancel they cannot get the full money back and only give me back $5,000 of $11,500 principal. I say noway and I had to take to small claim for this. This guy from MMP Capital piss off and loud on the phone with me and told me to go ahead.
To me, the small business in this bad inflation, be careful when investing to buy the printer and the Capital company willing to help or crew us for the money.
Money is not easy to make for all of us, much small print shops already closed in 2020, and many large shops may be on the way to closing too if the rent gets too high.
The Stratojet ask us to pay them $7,200 for restocking fees, I told them no, your printer already damage our business, why we pay for it. But we pay the $2,500 for feeling bad about this problem.
We are now buying 2 more EFI Vutek LX3 and GS3250 LX pro with Ultra drop, we already had GS3250 LX Pro Ultra Drop and GS5250 LX Pro 16FT, 2 Latex 3200 and 3600.
The CMYK Engineering support us successful when we still have OCE 350, 660XT. We buy their ink for all our Vutek, and services, Sergey is a very smart technician.
We have used OCE 660 Parts and an LED is good for OCE.
We bought 5'x10' UV Flatbed printer from Stratojet Shark and Finance with MMP Capital.
Here are problems we have and sharing for a small company if try invest for the business.
Stratojet Shark 5'x10' with Ricoh Gen6 but the salesman told me it special print-head from Ricoh no one had it. I hope he is right!
But the printer print very bad quality, it was head alignment problems, after get done, but the print was still not good, the dots was a lot of noise not smooth compared to Ricoh Gen5.
After we learn with CMYK Engineering, they told us the waveform is not good on the Ricoh Gen6 needs to adjust or calibrated. Stratojet agreed but took them 5 weeks no fix and if fix needs a special scanner to scan the test print.
Besides, the printer gets overheated then our print is not dry, we throw away a lot of material with this happen. Ink drop middle print too very bad because negative pressure ink keeps dropping.
In 4 months we lost a lot of time, labor, and jobs too. We were threatened to sue for this lost properly $50,000 in the headache we got. But they pick up the printer end of Nov 2021.
They return the money of $125,000 to the bank later in January 2022 from here we get burned from MMP Capital.
The MMP Capital asking us to make sure they get money in full, and then they will give us money to buy another printer but they want us to re-apply for the loan again. I said no because we did not stop payment with bad printers.
We want them just pay for the equipment then we continue payment and need a printer to print and pay the bank. After we found the printer, took them over 5 days not to get back to us but they already get $125,000 back. I told them that MMP Capital cannot help them return the principal, we were okay to lost almost $4,000 interested. MMP Capital guy told me NO my loan cannot cancel they cannot get the full money back and only give me back $5,000 of $11,500 principal. I say noway and I had to take to small claim for this. This guy from MMP Capital piss off and loud on the phone with me and told me to go ahead.
To me, the small business in this bad inflation, be careful when investing to buy the printer and the Capital company willing to help or crew us for the money.
Money is not easy to make for all of us, much small print shops already closed in 2020, and many large shops may be on the way to closing too if the rent gets too high.
The Stratojet ask us to pay them $7,200 for restocking fees, I told them no, your printer already damage our business, why we pay for it. But we pay the $2,500 for feeling bad about this problem.
We are now buying 2 more EFI Vutek LX3 and GS3250 LX pro with Ultra drop, we already had GS3250 LX Pro Ultra Drop and GS5250 LX Pro 16FT, 2 Latex 3200 and 3600.
The CMYK Engineering support us successful when we still have OCE 350, 660XT. We buy their ink for all our Vutek, and services, Sergey is a very smart technician.
We have used OCE 660 Parts and an LED is good for OCE.
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