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« Last post by balloonguy on May 27, 2024, 10:56:02 AM »
I have a very old diamonback (number 7, I think). With me loading and unloading I can consistently hit 350. With an unloader I can get up to about 450 for a couple of hours. After 3.5 - 4 hours I begin to slow down to 420 or so. Of course the size of the print matters. A left chest can go a little faster than a 14” tall print…
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« Last post by Doug S on May 27, 2024, 09:30:55 AM »
With us just being a mom and pop with an occasional helper. I would say we average 420 give or take a dozen an hour. I am the bottleneck as the loader because I am too obsessed with straight and centered. Unless they are really long prints the number stays roughly the same. I realize there are many that print faster. If I had to do it over again, I would've forked over the difference for a press that the tables didn't raise and lower. I didn't realize how much of a difference that makes until I went to a class that had challengers and I loaded 100 shirts at a speed of 1/3 faster than I load now with less fatigue.
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« Last post by whitewater on May 27, 2024, 08:42:47 AM »
Being realistic, there's no way my staff will print like I used to. I can dial it in, where if I have 2 and myself, I can load in 1 squeegee stroke, they can or do not. There really is no need to bust their ass when they get paid the same no matter what. And in the past I tried to offer incentives, didn't work for me.
What I do though, is we keep track of the time of the job we are doing. Start is when they load the screens in, and finished is when boxed and screens down. They put the time in monday, with any notes of if or why it may have took longer than they thought. Then we pout that in price it, along with whomever does art, they put their time spent doing mockup, seps, and burning screens.
In price it it gives us a percentage of profit or loss...
Monday mornings we go over the previous week and see where we hit our numbers or didn't. And try to figure out why.
Its so hard for me to even get staff to work here, that I try to figure out ways to hold them accountable without directly saying " you are to slow on this, we can print faster."
Maybe instead think of it as " are we hitting our percentages?" " or " they are going a little slow, but there are no mistakes and the prints look good"
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« Last post by Maxie on May 27, 2024, 04:29:54 AM »
I think our printing speeds are too slow. I'd looking for feedback with realistic printing speeds, what do you in your shop on a day to day basis, hour after hour.
We have two printing options. printer plus catcher or printer, puller and catcher. Printing on MHM S type.
How many one color shirts can you print in an hour? Two hours etc.
How many 4 color shirts, etc.? Thanks in advance for your feedback.
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« Last post by Maxie on May 25, 2024, 06:12:10 AM »
Adobe have a PS Photographers version which I believe has everything we need, it's much cheaper
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« Last post by Maxie on May 25, 2024, 06:09:45 AM »
I sorted this out, had to remove all Corel related files on my computer and then install Corel again.
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Can you send me a picture Dave?
Thanks
John
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« Last post by Frog on May 24, 2024, 02:41:07 PM »
Mr. Frog what color channel Black are you using? 100% Black is what I use on the 1800.
Also on more options tab do you have color correction on auto and Bidirectional checked?
I have no option of black color channels, and use RGB black in all art I create. No to the bi-directional option. I've attached the details of the settings visible option on this shot And, yes, this machine is on Windows 11
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« Last post by Grape Ape on May 24, 2024, 02:24:07 PM »
Yeah, so I do use waterproof film and that was used as test when first got printer. Think some of the issue is that my print window is not what Mr. Frog posted. I checked the other computer, and it is same there as Frogs is. Which is a great start to retest the 15000 with settings. The only difference I see offhand is the new computer runs Win11 and old is on Win 10. Will try and test this weekend been fighting my 1800 to get some films done for work this weekend.
Mr. Frog what color channel Black are you using? 100% Black is what I use on the 1800.
Also on more options tab do you have color correction on auto and Bidirectional checked?
Its good to hear that you have moved to outsource your work. You have always been inspiration to me and I am sure to old crew from back in day from original Forum (The one Barnes Destroyed) Dont even remember name been so long. I was banned 2 days after Robert took over. There was years of great print information on that site. Think Hirsch wound up with it from memory and then poof gone.
One place read last year was this one talking about the sensor to read the paper. I think my problem and theirs is I did not have the selection of correct paper.
Search "Issues printing transparencies with ET-15000" on Reddit has one conversation about issue.
Thanks to all.
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« Last post by ebscreen on May 24, 2024, 01:34:19 PM »
Acetone is extremely flammable, especially in aerosol form. Yes it works but the reason they use dcm instead is exactly that.
I know it doesn't seem like much but you're pumping an already flammable solvent up to super high pressures
and then aerosolizing it, all in the palm of your hand. Potential for a lot of things to go very wrong.
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