This hat heat press is perfect for anyone wanting to test the waters before pulling the trigger on a machine over 1k. My husband and I weren’t sure if this was something we wanted to add to our services yet so bought this to see. You definitely get what you paid for but it gets the job done. So far we’ve used it to press on embroidery patches & screen print decals onto brim of hats.
This has been a great hat press so far with a couple of minor things that could stand to be improved. Temperature is accurate although it starts with what I am guessing is the Chinese character for Fahrenheit when you power it on before showing the numbers. For a press in this price range the idea of a metal platen is great. I wish they had paid a little more attention to the machining of the platen though as the radiused edges are quite sharp and we've been fighting with marks left from that. If you look closely at the picture with the bill decoration you will see the crease at the back edge of the decoration. We couldn't go any lighter with pressure and still get a good application unfortunately.One thing we love this for is for collar tags and sleeve decorations on short sleeves. The curved platen and shape work great for those applications.Ours arrived with the box pretty banged up but the contents were relatively ok. One of the bolts in the mechanism was bent a little and scraped the side of the enclosure during operation but we were able to straighten it out enough that it is no longer hitting.If they would address the minor manufacturing issues and possibly have interchangeable lower platens this would be one outstanding machine. As it is now for the money it is still a darn good value and appears to be pretty solid. We run a half dozen ecommerce stores and go through a good amount of hats and so far this is doing a great job.
The hat press works perfect. It came already set up, just plug and play. The heat plate is a little smaller than the plate were the hat sits but it's listed in the description, I guess I must of missed it. Other then that, I love what i'm doing with it so far.I recommend it.
Fabiola Mar 
