Review and testing policy

Every page declares whether we tested the machine

Every printer page and every buying guide carries, near the top, a box that says one of two things: hands-on tested by TRIDYsign, or not tested by TRIDYsign. There is no ambiguous middle state and it is not an optional field: the data schema forces every machine to declare it before it can be published.

We do it this way because the reader is about to spend real money based on what we say, and deserves to know within two seconds whether they are reading experience or documentation review.

Current state: documentation-based coverage

TRIDYsign is a new publication. Today, most of our coverage is analysis of specifications and public documentation: official datasheets, manuals, launch notes and real availability in Mexico. It is clearly labelled as such on every page.

That work has value — comparing twenty official datasheets, filtering out the marketing and turning it into a reasoned recommendation is work almost nobody does in Mexican Spanish — but it is not the same as having used the machine. We do not pretend otherwise.

What tested means at TRIDYsign

We only describe a machine as tested when a member of the team used it and documented the procedure. That means, at minimum:

• Assembly and setup following the official manual, with a note on how long it took and what went wrong.
• Real prints with a stated material and profile, not the demo part from the bundled memory card.
• A record of what was measured, with which instrument, and under what conditions.
• The test date and firmware version, because a printer from last year does not behave the same after three updates.

Measurements coming out of that are published with the measured by TRIDYsign label. Everything else remains a manufacturer figure, even if the machine sat on our desk.

Loaner and review units

We have not received any loaner unit yet. When it happens, these are the rules we will operate under, written before there is a loan on the table:

• The page itself discloses who lent the unit and on what terms.
• Equipment is returned when we are done. If the manufacturer will not take it back, we disclose that it stayed with us and what was done with it.
• There is no copy approval: nobody outside the team reads the article before publication, not even to check facts. If we want to confirm a figure, we ask in writing and cite the answer.
• A loan commits us to no future coverage, neither positive nor continued.
• If a manufacturer makes a loan conditional on any of the above, we decline the loan and say so.

No stars, no aggregate scores

We publish no numeric or star ratings, and we do not collapse several dimensions into a single number. A score of 8.4 looks precise and says nothing: it hides what was weighed, by how much, and why.

Instead we publish who a machine suits, what trade-off the buyer accepts, and what they should not expect. That is a recommendation you can argue with, and therefore correct.

Conflicts of interest

We do not sell printers, materials or printing services, and we are not a distributor for any brand. If in future a team member has a commercial relationship with a manufacturer, shop or distributor we mention, it will be disclosed on the affected pages.

Affiliate commissions, where they exist, are explained in the affiliate disclosure and do not influence the content.