Moving wide format and production devices

I think you'd be amazed some of the places we've installed wide format machines and console machines and your dealer is multitudes larger than us.  You should have seen the de-install of an Oce we did a couple of months ago.

Disassemble the machine as much as necessary and use a mover's blanket as a cradle and put a guy on each of the four corners is the typical way we do a challenging wide format install.  The more difficult the install the more disassembly you do to get it as light and small as possible.  Reassemble in place.  Old school.

@fisher posted:

I think you'd be amazed some of the places we've installed wide format machines and console machines and your dealer is multitudes larger than us.  You should have seen the de-install of an Oce we did a couple of months ago.

Disassemble the machine as much as necessary and use a mover's blanket as a cradle and put a guy on each of the four corners is the typical way we do a challenging wide format install.  The more difficult the install the more disassembly you do to get it as light and small as possible.  Reassemble in place.  Old school.

sweet!  Old school is right.  food for you and your team

@Art Post posted:

Just a short story,,,,, it was about two years of more ago that I quoted an Architect for a wide format replacement of their inkjet WF.  They were on a second floor, narrow stairs and a lower ceiling at the start of the stairway.  I took one look and decided that my team would not deliver because of the config of the stairs and a turn.  I did not get the order.

Today, I stopped in and guess what they had?  The Ricoh MP W6700SP!

Truly a learning lesson for me. Do not make an assumption that your team can't do it and if they can't farm the job to a company that specializes in wide format and production.  In the northeast I highly recommend FMD

A few years back we hired a rigging company to bring a W6700 in through a 3rd story window with a crane.  Needed a glass company to remove the window...it was quite the operation.