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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Shawn (EIP) on October 25, 2011, 12:41:39 PM
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Just finished up a job that felt more like an epic journey , 600 shirts front and back heather grey 1 hit orange. Orange sucks so I had to flood print flood print but still faster than flashing. 36 hours by myself my help never showed , profited 50 bucks an hour not bad for a 1 person manual shop. Previous largest job on the manual was 500 whites 2 color front and back wet on wet. This job really put the push technique to test, no arm or wrist fatigue what so ever.
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A few of years ago I did 1,700 with a flash to cure. Ug.
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Shawn your getting old, back in the day I could have done that in 12 hours LOL just joking with ya, I know you felt it all a day later
Darryl
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Our biggest order was 25,000 4cp on a manual. For Ted Turner. Had to do it in 5,000 pcs increments.
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Our biggest order was 25,000 4cp on a manual. For Ted Turner. Had to do it in 5,000 pcs increments.
Sounds like to much fun for me even in my younger days
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I was too young to really remember it. It was I think around 1988 or so. So autos were harder to come by at the time. they were around, just not nearly as common. Our first auto was the prototype Javelin. We bought it off the floor of the ISS(I think) show in Atlanta.
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Shawn your getting old, back in the day I could have done that in 12 hours LOL just joking with ya, I know you felt it all a day later
Darryl
I probably could have gotten it done quicker if it wasn't for the drumset breaks to help keep my sanity. If this had been a 2 persons job probably 12 hours, I tend not to stray away from the press as much when I have help. Adult ADD maybe?
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it's hard to focus for that long. You have to get breaks in there to keep your sanity. Trust me, I know. Sometimes when i am working late I'll break for early morning breakfast before going home. You have to relax and unwind occasionally.
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did you walk out in the hallway and take a few deep breaths? I sure would have. . .
10k. . .I'll help set it up.
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and I would have had it done in under 2 hrs while you were selling another job making money...50 bucks an hour....come on...you could be making 4x that if you plan it out....work on it Shawn...
Sam
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Sam, your are beating a dead horse. He'll do it his way, even if you prove there is a better one.
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I would have at least changed something (mesh, EOM, ink viscosity) so that the print
would only be flood/print. Save 1/4 of your time at least.
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Just finished up a job that felt more like an epic journey , 600 shirts front and back heather grey 1 hit orange.
Good Job brother!!
You made a profit and kept busy for a couple days.
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Yesterday I made 125.00 an hour on 3 jobs I outsourced and knocked off at noon....The only dirt on my hands is from counting money.....
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80 an hour = 7.5 hours per side = 15 hours press time. Musta been some long breaks lol! I know if you are by yourself it is tougher to keep a good flow going.
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Last year we did 2300 on a manual press 1200 were one color two sides the rest were one color one side. It was a LOOONG weekend. averaged about 82 shirts an hour, cured with flash dryers. I actually lost 11 lbs that weekend. Now I would just contract it out. We still refer to it as the epic shirt weekend.
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Last year we did 2300 on a manual press 1200 were one color two sides the rest were one color one side. It was a LOOONG weekend. averaged about 82 shirts an hour, cured with flash dryers. I actually lost 11 lbs that weekend. Now I would just contract it out. We still refer to it as the epic shirt weekend.
No thanks! Cured 300 shirts with a flash dryer once, not fun!
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It sucked big time. the wife did nothing but load unload dryers all day while I printed.
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I had a 750 2/2 job a few months ago, cured with flash, by myself afterhours from my day job. I was like screw this! I'm glad to have gotten my new (to me) dryer...
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when I first started, I cured 100 hoodies in my oven. . .in my house. . bake @ 350 til she smoked a bit . . . put some toll house on the bottom rack. . . good times.
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I'm almost done with that 1100 piece order. Doing it by myself and I'm starting to drive myself nuts lol. I take breaks in between which helps. I quit drinking which is suppose to be a good thing but I'm going nuts!
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when I first started, I cured 100 hoodies in my oven. . .in my house. . bake @ 350 til she smoked a bit . . . put some toll house on the bottom rack. . . good times.
I thought I was the only nut to ever dry prints in the oven and mine were printed with waterbase inks LOL
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Endless, Did you do them on the workhorse?
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Gilligan, Brad, and anyone else wondering where the next couple of posts went. They were split and moved to Screen Printing Pricing, because they were discussing...that's right...Screen Printing Pricing.
http://www.theshirtboard.com/index.php?topic=1847.msg19401#new (http://www.theshirtboard.com/index.php?topic=1847.msg19401#new)
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Fair enough... my bad.
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sorry
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Gilligan, Brad, and anyone else wondering where the next couple of posts went. They were split and moved to Screen Printing Pricing, because they were discussing...that's right...Screen Printing Pricing.
[url]http://www.theshirtboard.com/index.php?topic=1847.msg19401#new[/url] ([url]http://www.theshirtboard.com/index.php?topic=1847.msg19401#new[/url])
Good job Frog. ( Dan pats Frog on his wet cold blooded back).
Keep a eye on those suckers. POLICE the area! POLICE the area! use mace if you have to, just try not to hit any kids in the eyes or it'le be all over the Internet.
Seriously, Frog really does a great job at keeping things where they need to be. We needed that diligence all along on all of the other boards. Real pat on back!
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He does, but I have a hard time know where the visible boards are. I was poking around for them the other day, is there a place we can list what isn't visible to the public?
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He does, but I have a hard time know where the visible boards are. I was poking around for them the other day, is there a place we can list what isn't visible to the public?
A posted list could be helpful (if folks read) but in the meantime;
For the most part, especially for those with industry forum experience, it's pretty much common sense.
All of the Pricing boards (Screen Printing, Art, Heat Seal & Embroidery's child boards,) require established membership, as does the Garment Blanks and Other Things locator board, and the entire Business category.
Also, as membership incentive, keeping things a little special for active members, the Internet Art Resources List, and donated Art for Free board.
Member to Member Services should be self-explanatory.
These Boards are all mentioned as "member only" in their descriptions, but agreed , it's not, " in your face", and of course, besides in posts like this, they are not even brought to the attention of guests or even brand new members.
Perhaps that can be remedied if deemed important.
Don't forget to check out our October contest entries and vote! (http://www.theshirtboard.com/index.php?topic=1820.msg19428#new)
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You know Dan... I didn't even think of the parallel... I just accepted I got off topic and posted information that didn't belong here and got reminded of it.
Over and out... no problem.
But it is comical that some people have such problems with it and act like I'm a jerk for asking for the same treatment that I just got. Again, not complaining because my treatment was rational and perfectly acceptable even in the grey area I was treading in vs how some people violate those lines.
Dan is right... great job Andy!
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You know Dan... I didn't even think of the parallel... I just accepted I got off topic and posted information that didn't belong here and got reminded of it.
Over and out... no problem.
But it is comical that some people have such problems with it and act like I'm a jerk for asking for the same treatment that I just got. Again, not complaining because my treatment was rational and perfectly acceptable even in the grey area I was treading in vs how some people violate those lines.
Dan is right... great job Andy!
This must be a more general observation pertaining more to some people at some other forums, where you are a known head butter (or butthead to "some people", I'm sure ;D ) right?
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Truth hunter... our society/industry don't need lies, from ANYONE.
But I got ya!