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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Frog on April 18, 2017, 11:14:43 AM
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We've all had them. (And I have plenty!)
Share, but let's do it just one at a time so more can play.
I'll start with that ever popular printing of a board without a shirt, and the ensuing sound of the screen breaking free of the adhesive.
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How about when you don't realize until you're packing up the order that there are shirts missing? Somehow the entire order has gone through ordering, receiving, printing, and catching, then you look at the paperwork, and say, "Wait, where are the 5 extra smalls?"
Doesn't happen often. But when it does... "doh!" barely covers it.
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I left a floodbar or squeegee clamp on a pallet during setup. Went to register another position, hit the table lift button on the printhead, and POW! Had to reshoot, dry, tape, and re-register that position.
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That's not as bad as lifting tables into a quartz flash with something sitting on a pallet. Not that I ever have.
I hate to say it, but if it is a bonehead move, I've probably done it.
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Pushing to hard on the touch screen for an auto press..... crack/spiderweb.....
Darn thing wasn't responding.... grrr... I felt like such an idiot.
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Burning film backwards and not notice until you tape up and start to register screens on press ;D who does that, me me me me!! :-[
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printing on the wrong side of the shirt
mooseman
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Used the darn metal paint spatula that I even ground the corners on,
that yup- just went through the screen, again!
An invention for someone- make a stronger goop scoop with more of a beveled end
that doesn't hold any ink coming out of a 5'er. :P
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Burning film backwards and not notice until you tape up and start to register screens on press ;D who does that, me me me me!! :-[
sorry Darryl, while this is not a competition, I can top that! We actually went ahead and printed the job thinking the backwards screen was background for the art!!!
DUHHHH!
pierre
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Come on guys, we do all this crap every day! Step up your game here.
How do you spell BASKETBALL? We spell it BASETBALL. But only for an NBA TEAM
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One of my finer moments has to be indexing a pallet under an empty print head catching said printhead (which was unlatched at the time) in the process and shearing the stop block on a tri-lock pallet off.
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There's also leaving a pallet under the flash, walking away for awhile, then having 4 ft high flames catch your attention. (I was only a witness to that one!)
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Come on guys, we do all this crap every day! Step up your game here.
How do you spell BASKETBALL? We spell it BASETBALL. But only for an NBA TEAM
Doh! is bad enough. But if it's Doh! the customer sees, you're playing at another level.
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Many, many years ago, I spelled it basketballl.
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gotta love printing on a pallet with no shirt on it haha dang it!!
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Brand new Belt Printer. Fresh tac . Printed said belt with fresh screen. Carraige frame raised/belt indexed= totally ruined brand new machine (owner did it because he thought he was a printer)
DUUUOOOHHH!
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Dollar amount.... I think Tony's story wins.
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Dollar amount.... I think Tony's story wins.
Yeah, but they weren't his dollars
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As long as we're talking about bosses and/or other employees.
I started in a flat stock shop, union.
To save overtime pay, the owners had some non-union moonlighters come in to work a night shift.
One guy ran a full load of 36 x 48 campaign signs down the belt before anyone realized that the heat was not on.
It took a forklift to remove the resulting giant brick.
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Dollar amount.... I think Tony's story wins.
Yeah, but they weren't his dollars
True that. Either way when the frame carraige that holds two 52x63 screens turns into a trapezoid well..........thats just a sound I don't want to hear again. Hydraulics don't care bout nothing
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As long as we're talking about bosses and/or other employees.
I started in a flat stock shop, union.
To save overtime pay, the owners had some non-union moonlighters come in to work a night shift.
One guy ran a full load of 36 x 48 campaign signs down the belt before anyone realized that the heat was not on.
It took a forklift to remove the resulting giant brick.
Frog, this one had me laughing out loud; they should have sold it as an art sculpture.
I was setting up a job on the manual with a much smaller screen than the previous job and hadn't adjusted the spring tension. Wasn't long before the screen catapulted the squeegee and a bunch of ink all over the press and anything nearby.
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As long as we're talking about bosses and/or other employees.
I started in a flat stock shop, union.
To save overtime pay, the owners had some non-union moonlighters come in to work a night shift.
One guy ran a full load of 36 x 48 campaign signs down the belt before anyone realized that the heat was not on.
It took a forklift to remove the resulting giant brick.
Frog, this one had me laughing out loud; they should have sold it as an art sculpture.
Actually, the art sales were different.
I cleaned screens on a big table covered with extra and leftover billboard print paper.
I was instructed to keep an eye out for those that ended up with visually appealing splotches and patterns.
These were then dried to remove any solvents, and were then picked through by a local decorator who bought some, framed them, and sold them to her clients.
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I think printing an empty pallet is how you know you've made it into screenprinting ;D oh and with fresh glue ;)
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I think printing an empty pallet is how you know you've made it into screenprinting ;D oh and with fresh glue ;)
...and right after you've changed pallet tape!
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I had a guy test print an empty platen. I mean, swung it over, brought it up and printed it. It was pretty funny.
We ran about 50 shirts and the oven wasn't on. Brain fart city. We hit the switch to heat, but I guess not all the way.
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How about when you don't realize until you're packing up the order that there are shirts missing? Somehow the entire order has gone through ordering, receiving, printing, and catching, then you look at the paperwork, and say, "Wait, where are the 5 extra smalls?"
Doesn't happen often. But when it does... "doh!" barely covers it.
Wow, just yesterday, a whole order of black, but with 4 purple added after the fact, the 4 purple have to be run. 3 locations, and neck label transfers... D-oh!
Steve
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When printing a mere pallet; it is traditional, nay expected, to call out "JOB OPENING ON PRESS SIX!!!!" etc
You all have permission to use this
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Pulled the mesh right out of a newman printing and empty pallet with fresh glue.
I'm almost too embarrassed to mention this one though. I rarely turn my compressor off but I had changed the oil in it the night before, came in the next morning, turned the press on and couldn't get it to home. I go to the manual, to the internet and finally called M&R and just as I got my concern out to the tech I remembered that I hadn't turned the compressor on. That was an extreme doh moment with a capital "D"
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who was it that sent a can of spray tack down the tunnel and blew their dryer up? that was a good'n........I think Rick Stefanick told me that story.
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Starter Sportswear New Haven CT
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When printing a mere pallet; it is traditional, nay expected, to call out "JOB OPENING ON PRESS SIX!!!!" etc
You all have permission to use this
...way back in the mid-90's (pre-NAFTA), I worked for a contract shop, that took overflow work from the bigger contract shops when they got bigger orders they couldnt handle.
...We ran this one job continuously for nearly two months....WAY oversize womens sleepshirts printed for "The Mouse". BIG oversize pallets, screens, everything...7 colors on a 12-color Challenger.
...One morning, doin the usual prep stuff, LOTS of fresh glue on the nice clean pallets, all ready to go. Dude (NOT ME) comes in, forgets to hit PRINT-START, and just starts the machine as if its mid-run. Yep, machine indexes, prints all seven screens on the pallets... ALL seven screens stuck to the boards So much so, that the CAROUSEL DOESNT DROP. The screens were actually suspending the entire carousel in the air. Of course, the control panel doesnt work because the prox switch that detects carousel drop throws an error, so now everything is stuck. After much fidgeting, we put some 2x4 blocks under the carousel to "catch" it when it eventually did drop...and started cutting screens out one-by one. All seven perished. Not a good day that day.
...Worst one that actually WAS my fault was for the same print job. With such a large print area, we were drinking up about a 5er of white ink every two hours or so. One of my responsibilities was to keep getting the white ink ready by putting them on the mixer, with a little NC reducer to keep the print flyng fast. End of the day, put a 5er on, and forgot about when I clocked out and bailed. Ink spun all night, so long it built up heat (summer GA warehouses with no a/c arent exactly cool). It gelled, which pushed the mixing blade into the side of the bucket until it chewed completly thru it. Ink mixer and surrounding area covered in partially gelled white ink. That clean up was the worst, but this was shortly after the above disaster story, so it didnt seem too bad by comaparison, I suppose.
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My pre press guy has done this twice THAT I KNOW OF. Filling a five gallon bucket of emulsion from a 55 gallon barrel with a spigot on it. Walks away and forgets about it. I walked in on him mopping up a quite large emulsion lake in my screen room. TWICE!!!
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I've got so many....
Particularly memorable is time I unknowingly kicked the spigot on the dip tank during final shut down procedures for the night. Coming into a production room of pink slime the next morning was a real pisser. 4 years later the floor is still pink in some areas. (Needless to say, there is no longer a spigot on the tank, just a sealed plug and a sump pump for draining).
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Many, many years ago, I spelled it basketballl.
We did a pile of shirts that said "Universary of Cinncinati" years ago, and "Special Olympics of Pioneer Vallley"
Steve
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Any of you manual printers ever yank a shirt before all colors were done? I guess if a head inadvertently gets switched off, it can happen on an auto as well.
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Any of you manual printers ever yank a shirt before all colors were done? I guess if a head inadvertently gets switched off, it can happen on an auto as well.
Of course...
Steve
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Speaking of autos, there's that moment when you reach to pull a shirt and see blotchy streaks because you've dry printed the color on the opposite side of the press - and that means the next 4, 5, 6+ shirts are ruined, too.
...there are just too many ways to screw up in this job!
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My biggest one might be...coming in to work today.
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Speaking of autos, there's that moment when you reach to pull a shirt and see blotchy streaks because you've dry printed the color on the opposite side of the press - and that means the next 4, 5, 6+ shirts are ruined, too.
...there are just too many ways to screw up in this job!
Did this the other day, and of all things with winged flood bars, they making me ink carding lazy LOL
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Printed a 150 pc order for a customer with their supplied film. Supposed to say SECURITY across the front in big letters. Did the whole job and not 1 person in the shop printing, catching, folding, or boxing noticed that the spelling was SECURTY. Lucky for us they supplied the film, but I felt so bad and was so mad with my guys I gave him a break on the 2nd run ::)
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Dropped off a big order to a long time customer and forgot the last box. We didn't realize it until Monday after their event! Doh!
We called them up and they said the event went great and never realized they were missing them... "No worries at all, just bring them down and we'll use them for next year. Thanks again guys!"
(thankfully there was no date or year in the design)
......giant sigh of relief
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Dropped off a big order to a long time customer and forgot the last box. We didn't realize it until Monday after their event! Doh!
We called them up and they said the event went great and never realized they were missing them... "No worries at all, just bring them down and we'll use them for next year. Thanks again guys!"
(thankfully there was no date or year in the design)
......giant sigh of relief
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we did that once, years ago. I made one of my guys drive 2 hours to the event, drop it off and come back. Ever since then we have box labels with all kinds of info on it, customer name, PO, Box__ of __ . We also put the number of boxes on the invoices so when a customer picks up a job, they are signing out 3 boxes or whatever. We had a guy call and say he was missing a box, we didn't have any info on how many boxes he took so we were stuck...lessons learned the hard way but it all works out now.
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Printed a 150 pc order for a customer with their supplied film. Supposed to say SECURITY across the front in big letters. Did the whole job and not 1 person in the shop printing, catching, folding, or boxing noticed that the spelling was SECURTY. Lucky for us they supplied the film, but I felt so bad and was so mad with my guys I gave him a break on the 2nd run ::)
We've had mockups with misspellings approved, then, the artist, screen maker, printer, and catcher all missed it... what the hell do they think we send them proofs for?
Steve
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Speaking of autos, there's that moment when you reach to pull a shirt and see blotchy streaks because you've dry printed the color on the opposite side of the press - and that means the next 4, 5, 6+ shirts are ruined, too.
...there are just too many ways to screw up in this job!
Try 14 :)
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Ran 100 white tanks recently. 7 colours on our 6-colour manual press, with five screens. All was good until I realized the catch bin had some ink in it that transferred to a ton of the tanks.
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Burning film backwards and not notice until you tape up and start to register screens on press ;D who does that, me me me me!! :-[
sorry Darryl, while this is not a competition, I can top that! We actually went ahead and printed the job thinking the backwards screen was background for the art!!!
DUHHHH!
pierre
Well now I don't feel so bad about myself. I left a plate under manual flash unit and took a call... among other things ;D
Steve