If you are comparing to Datron, then you have to look at Zubler's USA's line of mills. The DC1,DC5, and DC7 are all great machines, and I hear they utilizing HyperDent now.
I would NEVER buy one of these mills. Had almost a year of nightmares with a dc-7.
Zubler Usa is a great company, I will buy ovens vacuums handpieces benches etc all day long from them. Love the support and the quality of the equipment.
Dental concept systems, on the other hand, the European manufacturer of the DC Mills was horrible. Finally had to demand that they take back the $170,000 mill after a half dozen different problems with it, including windows update shenanigans, all system tools being in German, an SSD that failed, Spindle problems and catastrophic failures that destroyed the cradle holding the blanks when loading!
All the Europeans wanted to say was “operator error” even when it was running automated operations that do not use technician interaction! They promised to produce error logs that would demonstrate that we had done something wrong, which I was eager to see. After about 3 months I just stopped hearing from them, even after the president of the company swore they would support us in any way needed to make up for the problems.
DCS even offered to fly a technician in from Germany to solve the problems on site. Not only did that never happen, but they had a technician in the us doing other work, and that tech heard about the issues and offered to come to our site and troubleshoot and DCS said no and pulled that tech to go back to Germany.
I do not blame Zubler USA for this, they were hamstrung by the Germans from day 1. Bryan and Ryan and everyone at Zubler USA went way out of their way trying to solve it and did the right thing by us when it became clear it was not going to be solved.
Next year we start development on our next building and the first item on the list to install is a Zubler central suction cuz they rock.
So yeah, we replaced that mill with a 5x200 from Axsys, where tech support is here in the US.
Saved about half the cost too.