ForgeInc
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You seem to take issue with Vutek? Care to elaborate?
I kinda take issue with vutek. As much as they may be workhorses and have good speeds, their output quality leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion. I have highest quality samples off of them and our wimpy FB700 blows em outta the water quality wise.
That said we don't position ourselves on what our machines spit out, but rather by offering creative, high quality solutions. I have a feeling soon all the machines will have similar specs anyway.
The conversation about output speeds etc brings up something I have been thinking about a lot lately, and not to be a thread pirate but I wonder for bigger shops if it is better to have one or two ultra fast, knock stuff out kinda printers like durst or similar spec'ed machine...or 4-5 lower speed, higher quality machines that you might be able to get for the same price?
Our reseller mentioned he has a customer that has like 5 or so HP fb700 machines. If you have the room, this idea kinda makes sense to me. if one goes down you have redundancy, you can have some with white some without, run different jobs all at same time or combine them for huge jobs. Then their is a local printer who relies heavily on an HP7500. Yeah it's a monster...but if the thing goes down for a few days or more...or isn't running right, you can easily be screwed.
I dunno the answer...just something I been pondering.
Back to the thread....Merritt - Curious if you would consider the Latex a good purchase for you all in all? I mean, if you got one season of that job off that machine...seems like it done it's job? I mean, you MUST be able to pay for just about any machine you'd want to run that one job. Anything else is gravy.