I've been running Mr. Blue for almost a year now, it's got about 11,000 jobs on it, and I find it to be a giant piece of crap. Lots of twisted lenses, completley flaky software (you cannot let your guard down for even a minute). The biggest problem is it's unreliability. It's been though a mother board on the blocker, two main bearing on the edger, the GMD unit is currently gone while we wait for some guy in Montreal to authorize "the release" of the part we need. Service through Essilor is slow. Milling bits and drill bits run more than $50 each and the milling function has thrown chunks of lenses at the drill bit, causing them to break.
"Mr Blue is a little *****" is a phrase heard often in our lab. Our Kappa was a bit persnickity, but at least it was reliable.
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