Hot Stamp Takeover - Yay or Nay (2 Viewers)

[BEANO52]

Saw today, Luxor has introduced Hot Stamps on their ones. I realize it is completely dependent on the particular chip or casino. In fact my Harrahs New Orleans and Luckys are a couple of my favorite sets regardless of them being hot stamps.

Are the casinos switching to hot stamps because they are cheaper to manufacture? Are they tired of chips going home and trying to make them "uglier"?

 

[doublebooyah85]

@djmarc can you get me two racks?

 

[ekricket]

@djmarc can you get me two racks?

I would start a house mold set for these

 

[JMC9389]

Hot stamps are great. The change over from THC to RHC going from inlayed to hot stamped like Paris did is bad.

 

[FreeBop59]

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Saw today, Luxor has introduced Hot Stamps on their ones. I realize it is completely dependent on the particular chip or casino. In fact my Harrahs New Orleans and Luckys are a couple of my favorite sets regardless of them being hot stamps.

Are the casinos switching to hot stamps because they are cheaper to manufacture? Are they tired of chips going home and trying to make them "uglier"?

I wish Caesars Palace would have tried this approach with their hot stamped $1s: keep the house mold & spot pattern while switching the inlay to a hot stamp...

 

[WedgeRock]

Seems to me with inlays, the label is pressed it at the same time the chip is pressed.

With hot stamps, you have to press the chip, then stamp. Seems like an extra step...it can't be that much cheaper.

 

[ekricket]

Seems to me with inlays, the label is pressed it at the same time the chip is pressed.

With hot stamps, you have to press the chip, then stamp. Seems like an extra step...it can't be that much cheaper.

The inlays are designed, each page is printed, each page is laminated, each inlay is cut, each small inlay is affixed to both sides of the chip and then pressed in the final pressing. Every one of those steps is manual labor.

A hot stamp is designed, and then made into a stamp. The stamp is loaded on the hot press, and dozens of chips are loaded at once into a machine and ran off in minutes, then turned over and ran again for the other side. That’s a commercial process, for @Josh Kifer or me it would be a one chip at a time deal, much more labor for sure.

Inlays are just more labor at the commercial scale.

 

[smashed_potato]

@djmarc can you get me two racks?

Going by Danny’s new orders tool they ordered 100 racks!
@djmarc I’m in for a rack or 2 if you are harvesting

 

[smashed_potato]