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screen printing => Equipment => Topic started by: mjrprint on May 01, 2012, 11:26:19 AM
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The finishing touches are being put on our new diamondback and had fun yesterday assembling our new mini sprint 2000. Glad we have a forklift though, makes it easy. They look nice when they are all clean! I am sure that wont last long though lol.
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PICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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how much did that mini sprint set you back? I bought a fusion 8 months ago and I wish I would have got the mini sprint, now I need to upgrade.
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congrats and just dont use aerosol spray and you will keep stuff like new...
sam
ps. also coat with wd40....lint wont stick to it
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congrats and just dont use aerosol spray and you will keep stuff like new...
sam
ps. also coat with wd40....lint wont stick to it
Have you cleaned your floor yet Sam? ;)
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why would i want to do that?
sam
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I've also used plain old spray and wipe car wax. And no, I haven't cleaned my floor either.
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Maybe I'm just a clean freak or just not busy enough, probably not busy enough.
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I've also used plain old spray and wipe car wax. And no, I haven't cleaned my floor either.
Don`t worry bimmridder all the shops have ink on their floors
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If you don't get pics up soon you will be kicked in the nuts...make it happen captain.
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Congrats, I'm glad to hear it. I know you'll be happy you got it.
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Pics will be posted in a few.
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Here are some pics. The press with the gold shirts loaded is the new one. I think there are some other shots of the shop in the album too. http://s22.photobucket.com/albums/b344/garu45/shop%20new%20press/?albumview=slideshow (http://s22.photobucket.com/albums/b344/garu45/shop%20new%20press/?albumview=slideshow)
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Nice!
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Matt you guys rolling like big dogs Nice!!! and I never thought about eating off our floors so I ,m like Sam mine are dirty, but I do try to clean ever now and then.
Darryl
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nice celtics sign...real nice!
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nice celtics sign...real nice!
HAHA We got that from some guys upstairs that do lazer cutting. I will eventually get pics posted of the entire shop. There is still an embroidery area and the whole 2nd floor. Maybe a walk through video.
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Hey Matt,
What part of PA are you from? I'm originally from West Virginia/Pa area.
60 miles below Pittsburgh.
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I love all the mirrors in your shop. They makes it look like you have about 6 or 7 autos in there. Great marketing trick.
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I've also used plain old spray and wipe car wax. And no, I haven't cleaned my floor either.
Don`t worry bimmridder all the shops have ink on their floors
I've seen his floors. There actually pretty clean.
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I love all the mirrors in your shop. They makes it look like you have about 6 or 7 autos in there. Great marketing trick.
4 autos, 5 manuals, 2 laser bridges, 4 dryers
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Hey Matt,
What part of PA are you from? I'm originally from West Virginia/Pa area.
60 miles below Pittsburgh.
We are in southeast pa about 20 minutes west of Philadelphia.
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I love all the mirrors in your shop. They makes it look like you have about 6 or 7 autos in there. Great marketing trick.
4 autos, 5 manuals, 2 laser bridges, 4 dryers
That's a big shop, I would love to see how you keep it all organized. Can't wait to see the video.
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Matt, what is the name of the town, my wife is from there. A little town called Bryn Athyn
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Matt, what is the name of the town, my wife is from there. A little town called Bryn Athyn
Town is Bridgeport. About 20 minutes west of Philly.
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I love all the mirrors in your shop. They makes it look like you have about 6 or 7 autos in there. Great marketing trick.
4 autos, 5 manuals, 2 laser bridges, 4 dryers
That's a big shop, I would love to see how you keep it all organized. Can't wait to see the video.
We have a lot of people that have specific jobs. They each handle logistics, licensing, order tracking. We have one girl who is the production planner and allocated orders each day to each press based on press capability/printer capability etc. Then there are 2 guys that work in the darkroom, 2 that clean screens, 1 girl who handles taping, blockout, and delivery of the orders. I run the shop floor, do all the product line/corp meeting/ licensing samples, and maintain and repair all the equipment. The guy above me handles all the reports and spreadsheet stuff and we also have a print lead that helps all the printers. Oh yea and 9 artists lol.
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That sounds like alot of fun. I am happy with one auto and one manual for now. How many shirts go out everyday? I bet you do more shirts in an hour then I do in a week on average.
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We do about 4000 a day over 4 autos and 3 manuals right now. That number will go up when June hits. Mostly 1-6 color 48-72 piece jobs with color changes. Lots of two ply shorts, sweatpants, and other specialty prints on the manuals. The largest job we do each year is a 40k shirt job with 4 color front and one color back. That usually take 2 weeks Mon-Fri.
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We do about 4000 a day over 4 autos and 3 manuals right now. That number will go up when June hits. Mostly 1-6 color 48-72 piece jobs with color changes. Lots of two ply shorts, sweatpants, and other specialty prints on the manuals. The largest job we do each year is a 40k shirt job with 4 color front and one color back. That usually take 2 weeks Mon-Fri.
4000 a day, that beats my average week. I guess it should since you have 4 autos and 5 manuals. Nice shop.
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Average week?! I haven't even printed that many shirts TOTAL... and that probably includes the ones I contracted out! LOL
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Average week?! I haven't even printed that many shirts TOTAL... and that probably includes the ones I contracted out! LOL
Just when you think your doing good guys like mattleague come and let you know you have hardly started. Matt your shop and numbers are inspiring. The more I think about it I like what I have and don't want to grow anymore.
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We do about 4000 a day over 4 autos and 3 manuals right now. That number will go up when June hits. Mostly 1-6 color 48-72 piece jobs with color changes. Lots of two ply shorts, sweatpants, and other specialty prints on the manuals. The largest job we do each year is a 40k shirt job with 4 color front and one color back. That usually take 2 weeks Mon-Fri.
Nice, that's a damn good workload for a day, I'd lke to average that for a week, but I bet we are slightly under that right now for an average.
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The difference with my situation is that we are a private label. We sell to the collegiate market. I personally think you guys have it much harder dealing with the public and price haggling along with everything else. My hats go of to you guys really. I just have to babysit 45 employees everyday. So I guess we are even lol. I love when something breaks and I can work on a press with headphones on and not answer 30 questions at a time though. If you like the friendly, family type of shop don't get to big. Once you hit a certain point its all business. I miss when this place was smaller and felt like a family. I don't miss the old paychecks though hahaha.
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So as I will be working this weekend I figured I'll shoot that video I promised. Shop wont be running but then I can at least show everything without getting bothered and spare you all from having to suffer from 6 different radios blaring like they do during production lol.
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sweet!
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I'll try to show all of our systems we use to stay organized and keep everything flowing smoothly. Hopefully they could be useful to you guys. We spend a lot of time coming up with best practices and procedures as well as cross training employees.
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I just realised I never shot the video whoops. I will do it Saturday since I have to work. Pardon my rambling in advance lol.