Juicing apples

Last year we bought a (very small - Iain was astonished when he saw it in person because he had imagined it was bigger) apple press with the intention of making apple juice and perhaps cider.
We also have a juicer which we have only just unpacked to participate in this experiment. It is great because apples fit in whole.

Doug has tried making apple juice in 3 ways
1.) Cooking the fruit and straining the liquid off with a sieve
2.) Juicing with the electric juicer
3.) Liquidising and then pressing the fruit

The results were as follow
1.) Medium yield, not great flavour/consistancy. Easy clean up
The juice came out like very thin apple sauce rather than juice.
You can buy steam juicers which I guess is a similar idea, but it sounds like they work a bit better - I presume there is no sieving and the juice just runs out and is therefore thinner.
Clean up is relatively easy.

2.) Medium yield, grainy texture. Medium clean up
The juice from this method comes out very foamy which means some is wasted getting rid of that. Often gives a bit gravelly texture to the juice.
Yield could probably be improved by pressing the resulting pulp.
An advantage of this method - if you have room in the kitchen to always have the juicer out - is that it is quite quick and easy. Just about the whole machine goes in the dishwasher, but it helps if you rinse it first.

3.) Good yield, bit brown. Big clean up
This method yielded approx twice as much as the other two. The juice came out quite brown but the addition of a bit of lemon at the blending stage might help that. Also the blending made the fruit too fine so it oozed out between the slats of the press.
This method would work better with a fruit crusher (which is what they are designed to work with) than a blender.
The cleanup is a bit of a big job as you have the blender and the press to clean plus juice tends to ooze out the press rather - it is caught in the bottom of the press but can sometimes escape...
The press would be easier to use if it was possible to fix it to the ground. Bigger ones have screw holes in the feet. When we have a final place for it (the outdoor kitchen?) we will have to work out a way to fix it down.