a professional company basically has their machines in a "sterile" room, something no private person, including a private person can afford to do. With that, I prefer the commercial private owned encapsulators over any other method of putting capsules together.....
Chewing the fresh raw herb is the cheapest and most native / traditional way to use herbs....powders made into capsules is the most sissy and most expensive way to consume herbs and Dr. John R. Christopher said he would have went bankrupt if he didn't provide capsules, because that is what customers want most.