What the desk will and will not decide
The desk will
- Restate your print process, printable media, and print area in the request that goes out
- Ask suppliers for a datasheet and a drawing tied to the model they name
- Keep ink, transfer paper, heat press, RIP, freight, and commissioning on separate lines
- Pass back specification deviations instead of smoothing them into one paragraph
- Carry an optional budget and a supplier preference as your instruction, not as a rating
The desk will not
- Claim a factory acceptance test has been witnessed unless that visit is separately agreed and recorded
- Convert a certificate on a different model into a credential for the quoted unit
- Publish a savings figure, a duty-cycle result, or a noise level as if the desk had measured it
- Choose shirt chemistry for you when the fabric polyester content is still blank
- Promise a reply clock, a ship date, or an inventory position
A worked sourcing situation, labeled as a worksheet and not a completed order: a decorator wants shirts and a few wide banners from one room. The brief splits a shirt platen question from a roll-width question, names 60 Hz power, and leaves press dwell blank. Factories then answer those blanks. Until those answers arrive, the worksheet has no result to publish, and this page will not invent one.
Input voltage remains a site fact. If the building is 208 V three-phase, that string should be in the brief even when a catalog photo shows a plug you do not have. Rated power is copied from the supplier sheet for the quoted model, with the test conditions beside it, or it stays empty.
Speed figures are handled the same way. A cover number is useful when someone is only sorting replies. It is not a purchase figure until the media, the pass count, and the room conditions are written beside it. The desk will pass both the cover number and the missing test basis back to you. It will not collapse them into one approved rate.
