As most ECRM imagesetter owners already know, ECRM has classsified all of their imagesetters as “end of life” machines. What this means is, if you need a part for your imagesetter, whether its a VRL36, VRL45, Mako 36, Mako 46, Mako 56, Knockout 4550, StingRay 46, StingRay 63, Marlin 46, Marlin 63, or a BlueFin, you may not be able to get parts.

Once a manufacturer classifies a machine as “end of life”, they are no longer required to carry parts for that machine, so they may or may not have the imagesetter part available if you need it.

Here at DEI Systems, we still have a good supply of  parts for ECRM “end of life” imagesetters. We can also rebuild many of the parts for imagesetters. We have a high success rate for rebuilding VRL, Mako, and StingRay spinner motors, we can even rebuild the hologon spinner motor used in the Marlin. We can also rebuild VRL, Mako, StingRay, and Marlin power supplies. And the StingRay and Marlin buffer assemblies, you know the ones where the rubber rollers melt, we can rebuild those too. So even though ECRM has put the “end of life” label on their imagesetters, we at DEI Systems have not.

As a matter of fact if you call ECRM looking for parts, and they don’t have them, they’ll probably tell you to call DEI Systems. And if you have an old Agfa imagesetter, like an Accuset or Avantra, we still have parts for those imagesetters as well.

And when you are finally ready to upgrade to a CTP system, we may even take your imagesetter in on a trade to help offset some of the cost of going computer to plate.,