Specification console
A small shop still needs a written configuration. Floor space, one operator, and a single shift do not remove the questions about film width, white ink, power, and what the quotation leaves out. This page is the preparation step before factories are asked to price the same small-business brief.
These cards are buyer questions. They are not a claim that this desk operates a print shop or that any factory has already been approved.
Write the weekly shirt count, the largest graphic in millimeters, and whether jobs are mostly light garments or dark garments that need white ink. A shop that also sells film to other press users should say so, because roll handling differs from platen work.
Name the RIP or design files you already use, the control interface you expect, and the network drop if the printer is supposed to sit on the shop LAN. If artwork stays on a USB stick, write that. Do not let a supplier assume a cloud workflow.
State hours per day and a shirts-per-hour target only with the print area and resolution you mean. A figure taken from a brochure at a different resolution is a headline rating. Ask the supplier to restate throughput against your file, or to mark it as not tested.
List the datasheet revision, the electrical drawing, the ink safety sheet, and any wash test you will accept as evidence. A factory acceptance test, if offered, should name the media and the graphic. Certificates stay with the proposed model. They are not credentials of this desk.
A 120 V, 60 Hz, single-phase outlet is common in a small US shop, and it is still a question. Write the breaker amperage you actually have. If the powder heater is on a second plug, note its rated power in kW. Room temperature near 20 °C to 25 °C and humidity in percent RH are site facts, not printer achievements.
Product family, application, print area with units, quantity of printers, US destination, and the week or month you hope to receive them. Add optional budget with currency and say whether that figure is per unit or the whole order. A finished supplier price is not required to start.
Premium, mid-range, budget-friendly, or not yet decided is your instruction for how options should be presented. It is not a grade this desk has audited. You can change it when the first replies show different accessory lists.
No reply-time clock, no stock list, and no statement that a machine will fit the room. Power, extraction, and floor loading are confirmed from the proposed model documents and your site notes. Start from the inquiry names if you only have a category label so far.
The form has no upload field. Describe the drawing title and revision in the requirement, then send the file when the desk replies. The specification guide shows how to split a bundle so a press is not silently included.
One argument keeps a 300 mm printable width and a single platen when every graphic fits, because the document set stays short. The opposing argument asks for 450 mm or 600 mm, or for a press the shop already owns, when the art does not fit. Write the graphic size in millimeters. A smaller machine price on the narrow width is a different offer from the wider working envelope.
Delivered cost is the other split. When both replies include ink volume in milliliters, film, freight under one incoterm, and commissioning scope, the equipment lines can be ranked. If a reply drops the spare parts list or the RIP seat, leave the cell blank. Duty in hours per day is a shop fact. Throughput in shirts per hour stays tied to dpi and print area. Noise level in dB only counts when the measurement distance is written next to it.
Read the procurement brief if you want the longer evidence list before you type.
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