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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Clark on August 10, 2011, 04:22:49 PM
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In this 1 min clip, you'll see 16 backpacks come off the press. This is for you guys with a small space. YOu don't necessarily need 5K sf to be efficient. We had four people in the shop working on this job, and knocked the whole thing out in around 6 hr and 10 min. When we had to reload the folder would run to the front and reload the loading station. Overall through the entire day, we averaged 13.5 prints per minute or 810 pieces per hour. And I taught some guys born in 1994 what rap sounded like in the 9-Deuce. :)
Printing back packs at 900+/hr (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWWLPuSKf4U#ws)
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Sweet... what kind of ink did you use ??? nice process you had going
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Rutland super poly ink. 125 mesh and smilin jack squeegee with the beveled edge.
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Awesome. Nice music too....
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nice dude..
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nice dude..
impressive!
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we bump the Biggie smalls. . .and Cypress Hill. . . .had to feel nice typing up that invoice.
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That is awesome...I am envious..hope to be that big one day!
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Newman tape over the platen brackets - nice move.
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Good numbers, gotta love jobs like that. Just curious, why 2 people loading?
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The pockets were 9 1/4" and the platens were 8". They were really tough to get on. The flap on the pocket had to be folded up and the zippers had to be unzipped completely. Doing all that with only one person wasn't cuttin it speed wise. So after about 10 minutes I pulled another guy up there. Basically with two loaders it gave each loader one index to get the pockets opened enough to load quickly. If you look closely Moises and I are folding over the pocket flap and pulling the pocket open to kick back the zipper. We got another 30dz an hour with the extra loader. It was a no brainer to keep him up there after we saw the speed increase.
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Upcharge for the zipper etc?
I hate doing that stuff, plus you just increased your labor expense 25% to stay
at decent production speed.
Individually bagged, folded, with tissue, and size label where the print goes. Delightful.
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Took 22 man hours to get them out of the plastic and get them unzipped for production.
And the price went up .25 per when the first box came off the truck. The front pocket was supposed to be 10". We actually had to wait a half hour to unload the truck to get approval on the upcharge.
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Clark I still do bags on my manual one at a time and it sucks, looking at your vid I,m going to try and work something on our auto, big Thanks for the vid!!
Darryl
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Smilin' Jack.Didn't know anyone besides a few used them.You must like them?
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I love the smilim jack. 2/3's of my blades are smilin jacks
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Nice, What is funny though is that 1 man with a transfer press is almost as efficient. I had to press them for 30 seconds each, in that time I could grab the next bag, unbag it, open the zipper and pull up the flaps to make it easy to load. I got through 72 an hour, by myself...this includes reboxing them as well.
I even considered buying a dual platen heat press to load the next one while the other was pressing. But I couldn't have made it pay for itself and I didn't see another use for it after this job.
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Smilin' Jack.Didn't know anyone besides a few used them.You must like them?
I had a tough time with them in the beginning. I am almost certain that when the blades are new, they don't have the edge to print worth a damn, it seems like it takes a few hundred print strokes to get the blade edges to where they'll work correctly. I guess the gasket between the blade and the mesh thread isn't there or isn't functioning right for whatever reason. I think that period of time to get them right is more than some people are willing to spend on them. I use ours for most of our work now, they are two blades in one and if you are printing with the beveled side and it's too much ink, flip the blade around and find the angle that will deposit the right amount that you're looking for. We use the sharp side 90% of the time and I just love the versatility of them. You have such a huge range of ink deposit that you can achieve with them, straight up angle with the sharp side will deposit 1/4th of the ink the beveled side will with a little angle to it. If you put some angle to the sharp side, it will still put down some ink while maintaining a sharp edge to the print. They have flaws, if you are printing a 15" wide print with a 16" blade, it ain't going to happen without upping the squeegee pressure to a very high level. And then there is the amount of time it takes to get used to them and get them printing well. I don't think they are the greatest thing like they were supposed to be, we still use regular 70 duro, a few double beveled blades and a triple 55/90/55 pretty often. I think they shine when printing tough inks through high mesh, and that comes in handy when double stroking something is like getting a root canal around here. I've had our blades for a year and a half and they have never been sharpened and they are holding up very well.
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dave we have a few of them....like them...
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Nice, What is funny though is that 1 man with a transfer press is almost as efficient. I had to press them for 30 seconds each, in that time I could grab the next bag, unbag it, open the zipper and pull up the flaps to make it easy to load. I got through 72 an hour, by myself...this includes reboxing them as well.
I even considered buying a dual platen heat press to load the next one while the other was pressing. But I couldn't have made it pay for itself and I didn't see another use for it after this job.
I've never been that big on screen printed transfers...seem like it is basically doing the same job twice. Is there a reason you didn't direct print? It seems like it would have gone much faster..
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I didn't do the transfers, I ordered them from Ace. It took 1 guy almost 2 days, about 15 hours to do all the bags. Printing things like this is only half the battle. Instead of compartmentalizing the job, we did it all at once. Unbox, unbag, decorate, box, done.
I didn't have a good size platen either, but I had the perfect heat press.