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Offline ixpoz

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Shop towels or rags
« on: January 20, 2018, 11:21:23 PM »
What type of towels are you guys using to clean up around the shop?  Paper towels or shop rags?  Lint free I’m assuming?  I searched the forums and didn’t see any discussions, so any suggestions would be great.
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Re: Shop towels or rags
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2018, 04:59:28 AM »
Quote from: ixpoz on January 20, 2018, 11:21:23 PM
What type of towels are you guys using to clean up around the shop?  Paper towels or shop rags?  Lint free I’m assuming?  I searched the forums and didn’t see any discussions, so any suggestions would be great.

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Offline 1964GN

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Re: Shop towels or rags
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2018, 07:27:04 AM »
Misprints go into a bin. Those are used for set ups. When they are used up the get cut up into rags. If we run low on screw ups we buy black and tan tubes for set ups, and they go through the same cycle.

Don't get me started on screw ups... I lose sleep over that stuff and it's not even my shop. The last one was a typo, contract client, their art, TONS of eyes looked at that art and proof, 37 shirts printed and the person at the end of the dryer ask "why is it spelled FOOTALL and not FOOTBALL?"
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Re: Shop towels or rags
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2018, 09:47:35 AM »
I use the blue Scotts shop rags. You can buy them in bulk on Amazon for under $2 per roll usually.
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Re: Shop towels or rags
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2018, 01:24:59 PM »
Quote from: 1964GN on January 21, 2018, 07:27:04 AM
Misprints go into a bin. Those are used for set ups. When they are used up the get cut up into rags. If we run low on screw ups we buy black and tan tubes for set ups, and they go through the same cycle.

Don't get me started on screw ups... I lose sleep over that stuff and it's not even my shop. The last one was a typo, contract client, their art, TONS of eyes looked at that art and proof, 37 shirts printed and the person at the end of the dryer ask "why is it spelled FOOTALL and not FOOTBALL?"

Same - we use misprints
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Re: Shop towels or rags
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2018, 01:27:58 AM »
We use both.  My wife likes the blue Scott rags.  I use misprints. 
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Offline Prince Art

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Re: Shop towels or rags
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2018, 09:56:58 AM »
Scrap shirts for some things, but Scott blue shop towels for anything with chemicals. Although I've been meaning to get some lint-free disposables for, oh, a decade.  Used them at my last shop, and they were great for on press color changes.
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Re: Shop towels or rags
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2018, 10:15:27 AM »
misprints and paper towels depending on the application.

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Re: Shop towels or rags
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2018, 11:17:56 AM »
I still like Viva paper towels for on press ink cleaning. I use misprints for other print setups, and then, with their many inked images are just not soft and absorbent enough for me.
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Re: Shop towels or rags
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2018, 11:23:52 AM »
I use the red shop rags like you see in mechanic shops. I wipe send through dryer and use again. You can get them in white/natural too.
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Offline Croft

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Re: Shop towels or rags
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2018, 12:05:05 PM »
Quote from: ThePrinter on January 22, 2018, 11:23:52 AM
I use the red shop rags like you see in mechanic shops. I wipe send through dryer and use again. You can get them in white/natural too.

be careful if you go this route through a service like GK or others that you get printing shop rags not auto or machine shop recleaned rags because of metal shards in the fabric.
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Re: Shop towels or rags
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2018, 01:01:51 PM »
Quote from: Croft on January 22, 2018, 12:05:05 PM
Quote from: ThePrinter on January 22, 2018, 11:23:52 AM
I use the red shop rags like you see in mechanic shops. I wipe send through dryer and use again. You can get them in white/natural too.

be careful if you go this route through a service like GK or others that you get printing shop rags not auto or machine shop recleaned rags because of metal shards in the fabric.

I get mine from Sam's Club https://www.samsclub.com/sams/100pk-shop-towels-members-mark/prod17690135.ip?xid=plp:product:1:2

But that is good to know, I didn't know they clean and reuse/sale them.
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