WE closed logobear and I took Tracy & George too. We spent about 1 1/2 hours on sunday, and 4 hours on monday, and i could have spent longer but we had over 200 miles to drive home.
I think it is always useful, just talking you pick up all sorts of tips, or have the opportunity to resolve little issues and gripes.
I went and saw the demo of the Oci 711w on both TMT and Xpress, and what a difference!
The Xpress solution seems very clumsey, and reults not as good. With Xpress you just print from a windows driver, so have no control over white toner (the expensive bit) but the worst was having to do first transfere to part 2 paper at 180c for 90 seconds, peel hot, then second press at 180c for 50sec, totally cold peel, and final press for 10 seconds - all a lot of time at high temperature.
The TMT process all happens at 120c - so opportunity to work on much more delicate fabrics. First press to part 2 paper at 120c for 10 seconds - again hot peel, but easy at 120c, then second press only about 30sec? - totally cold peel, and final 5 second press.
The Magic Touch printing is controlkled by a driver interface (called space controller?) - so the white is more appropriately used, and the final result has almost no hand, and looks superb.
Needles to say, I couldn't resist, and bought the Magic Touch solution, I have already had 3 opportunities to use it in under 3 hours this morning, but have to wait a week for delivery.
To be fair, the transfere product is a little cheaper at Xpress, but Magic Touch hinted at a significant price fall in march....
Will keep you posted about use and results, but unlimited floating print on none-whites has been the holy grail, and I am really excited about our new offering,.