Bill,
I thought I had it bad here!!!!
I am sure if you contact your Paste Supplier they will give you all the advise you need. Better still contact a Printer Supplier and tell him to assist you in justifying the purchase of a new printer.(I am sure he would be more than happy!).
From my point of view you would be running totally inefficiently for a start not to mention the fact that any one of the Placement machines could breakdown at anytime.
I am sure if you carried out a cost analysis on Operator Changeover and Machine downtime waiting on boards along with Product Turnaround you will easily justify a new printer.( you can pick up printers quite cheaply).
If all that fails I would write a note on a letter and say "Aurevoir" and get the hell out of there.....
aj...
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