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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: ericheartsu on February 12, 2012, 09:36:40 PM
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Looking for some tips on how to store hundreds and hundreds of flims!
right now i just store them in a flat file, sorted by client in handmade folders, but it takes FOREVER finding folders.
How do you guys do it?
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I actually toss most of them. Space is a premium at my shop. Space is worth more to me than a $1.00 film. alan802 has the best homemade system I think. Do a search and it should show up.
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Howdy Eric. Welcome. As mentioned, there is a thread or two about just this subject. Here's one from July of last year that got action with replies into January.
http://www.theshirtboard.com/index.php/topic,893.msg26547.html#msg26547 (http://www.theshirtboard.com/index.php/topic,893.msg26547.html#msg26547)
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From your description of your current files you could make a bookshelf out of wood that would hold your size file. You should start using design numbers to identify the jobs which would help keep them in order. Create a design sheet and tape one to the outside of the folder. We have a system in place to purge and recycle our folders that have not been ordered in two years and that have dated material.
Any recycled folders you can just x through old design sheet and attach new one in its place.
Hope some of this helps.
ks
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I actually toss most of them. Space is a premium at my shop. Space is worth more to me than a $1.00 film. alan802 has the best homemade system I think. Do a search and it should show up.
Wish I could take credit for our system but I copied txscreener almost exactly. I highly recommend building something like that if you have lot's of repeat orders like we do.
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I made a wood box with legs where I don't have to bend over to the floor the box is 4' long 16'' wide and 14'' deep. We use X-Ray folders and staple paint sticks to them and put them in abc order woks well and we can store hundreds of film.