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Customprintwales;120212 wrote:I use halogen ovens from B&M Bargains for £30 each but they are pretty much bog standard models that you can find anywhere for that sort of price.

I love them and get much better print than when I used a mug press. Top to bottom is much easier to do as there is no pre-heating to do and using wraps you can get the design much closer to the handle without worrying about fading.

It can take a while to press one mug - I use 18 minutes for a mug - but timing get much better when you do more mugs. I can get 6 in at a time and the timing on that is 28 minutes. for 4 at a time the time is 23 minutes.

At £30 a time I have bought 3 so when I do bulk orders I can do up to 36 mugs an hour. Just make sure you have enough wraps to operate smoothly.

pisquee;120219 wrote:We did - bought a full sized kitchen oven from Argos, fan assisted, top and bottom heat elements, could get 24 mugs in at a time.
Problem was to get consistent heat in the whole oven, the fan was needed, but the fan would blow around any gassed ink that had escaped off the transfers, and so any exposed areas of the mugs got a browny tinge on them.
Other problem was our mugs aren't a standard size, and the silicone wraps available were too big, so we had problems with not having enough pressure around the whole mug.
We ended up with tape around the whole transfer so no ink gas could escape, so went through so much heat tape which wasn't cheap, the increased labour time/cost to wrap the mugs in this way was also therefore expensive.
We wasted a few hundred mugs trying to perfect this, and had to give up in the end, and move back to presses unfortunately.
We cleaned the oven down, and it's now in our kitchen doing a fantastic job of cooking food, replacing the gas oven we had which was terrible at cooking and was condemed by the gas board for being too leaky!

pisquee;120321 wrote:I have seen the oven we used adapted as a mug oven from one supplier - the control panel changed out, and I guess the fans changed to suck the gas/fumes out.

pisquee;120321 wrote:I have seen the oven we used adapted as a mug oven from one supplier - the control panel changed out, and I guess the fans changed to suck the gas/fumes out.

brightday83;120318 wrote:

It's a shame there are no big table top ovens that do the job, that don't cost an arm-and-a-leg.

pw66;120340 wrote:Try some catering equipment suppliers. They stock a range of counter top 13 amp convection ovens, of a similar size to domestic cooker ovens.

This one is £299 + vat, with a temperature range up to 300c.

https://www.cs-catering-equipment.co.uk ... ction-oven