Jennifer, I have an older model Dako Autostainer that still works well. Dako does still service it, too. It had a printer available, but we chose not to use it. Our volume is small, ~2400 slides yr.
The size/type stainer you choose should be based on the number of immuno's that you do a year. NOT on what Dako wants to push on you, equipment or antibody systems. And I do mean PUSH. They tried for a year to Push their new FLEX system on us. It becomes a closed system and much more expensive. Do not allow them to do it to you. I was on the verge of going to a competitor. If you push back, they will back off. I still use Dako for all my IHC, but, again, I may start looking closer at the competition because the corporation is not giving the small lab the breaks that we need to keep up with the big hospitals. It's sad that the Dako leadership is not paying attention to their customers. Dako, Are you listening? I'm not sure how much this helps you, but I feel better by letting someone know that they are/were a good company, but is under bad leadership at the moment. Renee Grow, BA., HT (ASCP) rg...@bmnet.com Histology Supervisor Blount Memorial Hospital 907 E. Lamar Alexander Pkwy. Maryville, TN 37804-5016 (865) 977-4744 (865) 977-5766 Fax ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:45:23 -0700 From: "Jennifer Campbell" <jcampb...@vdxpathology.com> Subject: [Histonet] dako autostainers To: <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Message-ID: <5658cbdb9eae6545abe50d2563d81bf81df...@vdxserver01.vdxpathology.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We are looking into buying the Dako Autostainer Plus. I asked our rep if they still have any older models around to look into. He made it sound like there are older models but, the stainer itself has stayed the same, just the software has changed/improved. He said they don't even like selling the older models anymore b/c they are worried that the software would be out of date. I looked into this on Dako.com and found that there is the older Dado Autostainer. After reading through its description it looks like it just lacks a few of the bells and whistles (like a slide labeler for example) that the Autostainer Plus has but, otherwise looks like it gets the job done just the same. Does anyone have any feedback on either one of these machines and whether or not you think I should even bother looking into the older model? Thank you so much. _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
