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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Shanarchy on November 30, 2016, 05:17:15 PM
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How many square feet is your facility, and what is your major equipment you have in there, and do you feel like you have sufficient space?
For example, us:
2500 sq ft
1 manual press, 1 automatic, CTS, a 6 head embroidery machine, and wide format printer.
We are really out of space. I'm trying to do some rearranging to free up space, but I'm looking at different options now for long term. Reason for asking is I know if we had 500-1000 sq ft right now we'd be good. But I don't want to move and have the same issue a year from now, but would also like to keep my rent to as reasonable of a number as possible (ie I don't want to move into a space double the size that I will ever need).
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I have known more than one shop owner to expand vertically, and add loft space for storage and other appropriate parts of the operation.
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I moved from 1285 to 2500 in august. I have 1 auto (6 color), a good compressor, 2 exposure units, washout, 2 automatic balloon printers, spare air compressor and 1 pad printer. I also have several shelves and tables...
I always feel like more space would be good. I am good in my new place but when an order for 2000 hoodies comes in I know I will be cramped until I get them out the door...
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We are in:
800 sq ft
1 manual press.
Small plotter setup. Dedicated darkroom.
We're pretty crammed but trying to make efficient use of the space. I'm hoping it'll be a good habit to have as we grow!
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1600 sqft, two businesses in it. 19x22 for production with 6 color saber, 10' Radicure, 48" washout booth, inks, screen rack, semi-auto coater, dip tank.
15x11 that has my computer work bench and soon to be pre-reg system on one wall and exposure unit, developing tank, double wide drying cab, another screen rack on the other.
Another small room with heat press, two heads of embroidery, 4880 film printer, 24" cutter, and my production manager and another artist production employee.
Another small room with "show room" and office manager.
Small room for meet and greet computer customers.
Small room for wife and I's office.
Two bathrooms, a storage closet, and kitchen counter cubby deal.
Needless to say, it's tight!
I'd be happy with 5k sqft if I could build it out my way. ;)
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7000 sf. Showroom, offices, screenprinting production with 6/8 Sabre and 8/8 workhose manual. Dark room and reclaim area. Embroidery production with muti head taxi a 6 head 2 toyota single heads and a happy comercial single head. Cad cut ,DTG and rhinestone production with 2 plotters , 2- 18x24 auto lift heat presses,1cap press and a dual shuttle heat press for embossing. A brother 541 DTG and a dual Brother 782 DTG and a Lawson pretreat system.Ricoc sublimation printer.
Going to build a 20,000 sf facility just down the road soon
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8,000 sqft, but own the whole building which is 14,000 sqft. We rent 6,000 sqft to a coffee distributor and we have a divided space so we don't share anything. Different utilities and all. We will likely take that space back over in August or 1 year from August. Their lease is up then and we are basically nearing out of room. Hope to add a second auto next year. Currently we have 12/14 CH3D, Sprint 3000, Starlight, i-Image, Mlink with Pretreat machine/heat press, 5 different embroidery machines with total of 22 embroidery heads, 2 artists work area, Roland 64 Inch Pro 4 with Lamination, my office, Shelly's office, couple open offices soon to be moved into and other random supporting equipment. When we take a typical UPS delivery which is now about 20-50 boxes we are quickly out of room.
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8k, two stories, all filled wall to wall.
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Bursting at the seams at 3500sf. Moving 1st quarter of 2017 to 9,500sf. Will be adding additional auto and embroidery heads.
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just under 1000 one 6/6 manual 5 emb heads, vinyl cutter, and a bunch of other junk I can't get to.
mooseman
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5K and soon to be 3 autos (end of this month). It's pretty full, but we will still be able to take a truckload of shirts. . .
pierre
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1800 and looking to downsize to 400 in a year or less.
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2500 housing 2 offices, screen room, washout room, utility room with air comp, chiller and furnace, 6/8 sporty, mini print, 2 manuals, MSP 3140 exposure unit....and a metric crap ton of stuff I probably don't need.
Still room for deliveries of 80 to 100 cases when needed.
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4000 1 6/8 auto 1 6/6 manual, 4 embroidery machines 16 heads, 8 sewing stations (3 machines each station), 2 36" vinyl cutters 2 air fusions, 1 64" epson, 1 64 heat calander, need more room, plus 6 offices and storage areas
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We are a little north of 3k and are stuffed to the gills. I really need to get a storage container here.
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3,600K and really tight. 1 auto 1 manual. Clean out area, dark room 3 offices, embroidery section with two 8 heads and 1 single. We also have a 12 head in another unit we rent space from when we need to really crank out some emb. As we found out recently we can fit about 8k shirts tightly but workable at a time in the print area.
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It doesn't matter. There is never enough room.
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8K, mhm 10/12, old gauntlet 6/8, Rototex 8/4 manual, 48' Tex-Air, 60" Tex-Air, 24" Cincinnati... screen room, art dept, lunch area, offices...
steve
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2800 sq/ft with a 12/14 auto and 6/6 manual, M&R Heatwave Dryer, 2 pad printers, rotary bottle press and a very small clamshell and another 24" wide 14.5' Hix conveyor, 2x 48" x 36" drying racks and all the periphery stuff to support it all.
And now a separate 1800 sq/ft shop which house 4 head embroidery and all the sign shop stuff including install bay and huge vertical panel saw. plus showroom.
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I have known more than one shop owner to expand vertically, and add loft space for storage and other appropriate parts of the operation.
200 of our 2500 is actually a loft/storage space about the stairwell. It's pretty useful.
It doesn't matter. There is never enough room.
I'm pretty sure no matter what size space I am in I will end up filling it.
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11K - too tight now.
2 automatics - CH3, Diamondback. Got rid of manual over a year ago. Sprint 2000 dryer, 4DTG printers, 4 embroidery machines, pad printing, ink mixing etc.
Screen room is pretty big - auto coater, CTS, starlight etc.
I think 20K would be much more effective but we will go with a bit larger to grow into / expand.
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Cramped you say? Micro-shop checking in.. 300sf (containing 6/8 manual, 13' dryer, exposure unit, screen drying cabinet, screen storage, ink mixing station).
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Cramped you say? Micro-shop checking in.. 300sf (containing 6/8 manual, 13' dryer, exposure unit, screen drying cabinet, screen storage, ink mixing station).
Would love to see pics of this as I am struggling to figure out how to do it.
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2600 sq ft and bursting at the seams, both physically and electrically. 12/14 RPM, 6/4 Sidewinder, Sprint 3000, Brother GT-541, Richmond Solarbeam 10k. Our showroom, offices and screen room take up about 1/3 of our space, but we have 20 ft ceilings in the production area and can expand vertically if needed.
Planning on keeping things this size for as long as I own the business, and will be reorganizing everything creatively to make a bit more room in the coming year.
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Cramped you say? Micro-shop checking in.. 300sf (containing 6/8 manual, 13' dryer, exposure unit, screen drying cabinet, screen storage, ink mixing station).
Dude, I would fist-bump you right now if I could! (And I don't do that much.) We're around 450sf, including office.
I realize you guys with bigger shops have to deal with everything on a different scale... but there may be some value in considering "how do tiny shops do it?" Lower volume is the obvious part of the equation. But the other side is efficiency. We constantly have to ask "what can I do to make the most of what I have?" It means getting rid of the junk in the corner and really having to justify every equipment purchase. It means arranging everything in the most space-efficient way possible. (Tetris experience is a plus!) It means being able to stand at any point in the shop with your arms out, turn in a circle , and touch something - probably several things. It means trimming fat everywhere you possibly can. I'm certain some of the bigger shops are doing the same things, and still need space... but I'm just as certain some others could reclaim 100's of sf if they made it a goal.
...Not sure how that "reads" - no hostility intended! ;D Just thoughts. From the peanut gallery, some of the "complaints" are a little amusing, even if legitimate.
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It doesn't matter. There is never enough room.
Yup.
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1100 here (moving to around 450 within the next month or two). I have way too much crap in it right now, so I kind of have 2 foot wide paths to wade to different areas and everything is on casters. I serious need to sell off a bunch of stuff.
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Cramped you say? Micro-shop checking in.. 300sf (containing 6/8 manual, 13' dryer, exposure unit, screen drying cabinet, screen storage, ink mixing station).
We started with about that, we had a darkroom that was 4' x 4', just enough room for a vertical camera, a processor, and room for my size 13's, ah, those were the days...
Steve
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...my production space is a 12'x24' room that houses a 6x4 M&R Kruzer, 7' M&R Economax dryer, LED exposure unit, ink mixing/storage area, work surface, screen storage and wash-out booth.
...art room and shirt storage is another 12'x12' room.
Total of 432 sq' (in the lower level of my home).
That wouldn't work for a full-time gig, but works fine for the 10 hours/week that I print 8) 8)
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22K
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2800. Right now it is more then plenty. That should change soon.
Only main equipment currently is a 8/4 Antec Legend, Curestar 6000, Super Seca auto rotate flash, washout booth and exposure unit.
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1200 home based business.
Large attached 2 car garage is the print shop with 6/6 Antec Legend and 9' x 36” brown dryer and also a heat press and a bunch of tables for staging, ink and accessories.
Small living room for my office and 24” vinyl cutter. Lots of shelves with blanks and other accessories.
Small bedroom with our 2 Melco embroidery machines (single heads).
Basement converted into a nice size dark room, FX Exposure, table for coating screens, tall screen rack in a sectioned off drying area for coated screens. Washout booth, filtration system, kiddy pool for developing exposed screens, horizontal drying racks for wet screens like Greg Kitson's.
This is all in my partners home and we are jammed to the max! We've been looking to move for a while and may have found a bigger spot, more on that tomorrow....
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10K here....
Roughly
3500 for stretching
1500 for supplies
1500 office
3500 for new/used equipment and refurbishing.
Spent the last few days purging the whole thing of unneeded crap...
Feels like I have lots of room right now, but that can change in a day or two.
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We are 2500 sq ft. Cramped with a 10 color sportsman, mini sprint, 6' x 16' weeding table. I'm just glad to know that I'm not the only one that has to walk sideways through a maze to lay out shirts to print. :)
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9k+
12 and 14 color M&R Sprint 2000HO 8C manual press. Offices and Screen Room take 1/4-1/3 of this.
We do a lot of ASI type stuff so the open space gets filled quickly. Then empties... then fills with shirts then empties.... Really nice to have that much open space. We can store over 20 pallets currently.
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1200 sqf basement
6/4 Antec Legend with Atlas 824 dryer and Nuarc 40-1K exposure unit.
2 single head Tajima and Toyota machines. 2 heat presses, 55" laminating machine (with 5'x10' cut table), 54" Graphtec cutter and 64" HP L330 Latex printer.
Few other tables with computers on them, a bunch of shelves and a Furnace in the middle of one room :)
Doing wraps in a 2 car attached garage.
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started the year
3K in 2 semi connected buildings when we had 2 manuals and 1 small electric dryer.
moved 2 blocks west to a 6K mostly open warehouse, got a 8/10 auto and big ass gas dryer to go with the manual. production/showroom/various wet/dark/office/break rooms all in the front half.
back half is walled off, no plumbing or insulation or heat or electric back there and it's full of the PO's crap. BUT IT'S THERE to expand into when needed (and a good place to put large orders in the meantime).
only real snags are that there are center posts in a fairly long rectangle layout and it makes presses larger than 8/10 problematic, trying to get two autos properly arranged near the dyer intake also difficult.