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screen printing => Equipment => Topic started by: 3Deep on April 21, 2017, 10:43:58 AM

Title: Equipment upgrade
Post by: 3Deep on April 21, 2017, 10:43:58 AM
What is the one piece of equipment in your shop if you did an upgrade would make your shop more efficient, mine right now would be a bigger dryer in a tiny space. 
Title: Re: Equipment upgrade
Post by: Prince Art on April 21, 2017, 10:55:00 AM
HA! I've got a laundry list for that question, not just one thing. But #1 is move from manual to auto. After that, upgrade the dryer.
(And then, work on our customer & order management workflow... which isn't equipment, but would help a lot.)
Title: Re: Equipment upgrade
Post by: Croft on April 21, 2017, 11:14:57 AM
chicken before the egg thing  here , New bigger dryer with slower auto or new faster more colour auto with smaller dryer can't afford both
Title: Re: Equipment upgrade
Post by: Stinkhorn Press on April 21, 2017, 01:54:51 PM
What is the one piece of equipment in your shop if you did an upgrade would make your shop more efficient, mine right now would be a bigger dryer in a tiny space.

CTS. (taping to home made FPU, the time and inaccuracy of that isn't yet outweighing the pound of flesh cost)
roller frames.
better workflow/paperwork processes. i suppose that ain't equip unless the answer is shop software out of the box (and that I doubt).
spray gun applicators (tex tec and reclaim chems).
press with more (than the current 8) heads.

in a fantasy world, one of them automated in mixing systems.

answering this is like dreaming about what you'd do with your powerball winnings.
Title: Re: Equipment upgrade
Post by: mk162 on April 21, 2017, 02:04:40 PM
What is the one piece of equipment in your shop if you did an upgrade would make your shop more efficient, mine right now would be a bigger dryer in a tiny space.

CTS. (taping to home made FPU, the time and inaccuracy of that isn't yet outweighing the pound of flesh cost)
roller frames.
better workflow/paperwork processes. i suppose that ain't equip unless the answer is shop software out of the box (and that I doubt).
spray gun applicators (tex tec and reclaim chems).
press with more (than the current 8) heads.

in a fantasy world, one of them automated in mixing systems.

answering this is like dreaming about what you'd do with your powerball winnings.

I'll stick with s-mesh from Spot Color before switching to rollers...much cheaper and damn similar results.  Not to mention your arms will thank you.

ours would just be more staff.  I just hate hiring because usually right after that comes the firing. ;)

Title: Re: Equipment upgrade
Post by: Nation03 on April 21, 2017, 06:11:23 PM
Bigger dryer would help the production along, but our numbers per hour aren't terrible for our size. I think a solid pre-reg setup would help a ton. I also need to get a dip tank, that would be a huge time saver.
Title: Re: Equipment upgrade
Post by: Doug S on April 21, 2017, 06:48:51 PM
A press with more color capability.  I'm saying that because I'm getting more and more request for jobs that a 12 color would really be nice to have but also it would allow us to have a few more jobs set up at the same time in most cases. 
Title: Re: Equipment upgrade
Post by: Homer on April 21, 2017, 07:24:37 PM
What is the one piece of equipment in your shop if you did an upgrade would make your shop more efficient, mine right now would be a bigger dryer in a tiny space.

CTS. (taping to home made FPU, the time and inaccuracy of that isn't yet outweighing the pound of flesh cost)
roller frames.
better workflow/paperwork processes. i suppose that ain't equip unless the answer is shop software out of the box (and that I doubt).
spray gun applicators (tex tec and reclaim chems).
press with more (than the current 8) heads.

in a fantasy world, one of them automated in mixing systems.

answering this is like dreaming about what you'd do with your powerball winnings.
;D there would be a static image of me with a whisp sound followed by screeching tires in the park lot...
Title: Re: Equipment upgrade
Post by: 3Deep on April 23, 2017, 01:40:58 PM
Homer if your talking about hitting the lotto I there with ya burning rubber
Title: Re: Equipment upgrade
Post by: ericheartsu on April 23, 2017, 06:04:12 PM
without a doubt, better invoicing/job management software.