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screen printing => Ink and Chemicals => Topic started by: tonypep on November 07, 2012, 01:44:27 PM
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And I thought I had a clean Ink Dept
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That cant be real lol.
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Wtf
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Definitely something fishy about that pic!
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And heres the screen room
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Thats got to be in Europe or they just dont ever do any work out of there.....lol
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Is that the Bauman dude from our forum?
Shi(r)ts unreal!
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wait, you guys don't keep your that clean? Huh, I thought that was the norm.
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Best guess if the pics are legit is that they just did a remod and snapped pictures before everything got mucked up.
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Shouldn't he be wearing little sanitary footies and a mask?
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Heres the production floor. These are legit I know the guy. The keep it this way.
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Oops
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That is awesome! Thanks for posting Tony. My new hero whoever they are. I get so tired of messy people in all aspects of life. And in our business I get tired of the "well, we just don't have enough people to keep it clean" attitude. But we have enough to make a mess, right? And our shop is far from being that clean. I just get the feeling like I am talking to the brick walls in our shop. We have people leaving (let go/fired) and new ones coming in and they better be clean/organized. So tired of it all.
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that`s the ink room
it looks like you can eat off the floor
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WOW. Amazing. I dropped a squeegee and flood bar (both loaded with ink) the other day at full walking speed...... it made a awesome mess.
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How on earth do they keep their ink buckets so clean?!
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double wow.
that is a g.d. trip, cannot believe that ink room.
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Looks just like palomar printing to me....
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I think my ink storage cabinets are cleaner looking.
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That's fake. Those are Photoshoped :-)
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It's in Myrtle Beach. Five Autos 56K sq ft. They intend to keep it this way. Too much hard work to get where they are.
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They intend to keep it this way. Too much hard work to get where they are.
I can only imagine what all the shops of those who just posted in this thread look like.. a giant freaking mess i'd bet!
why anyone would want to work in filth I don't know, I try very hard to stay as clean as possible because clean is fast dirty is slow.
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They intend to keep it this way. Too much hard work to get where they are.
I can only imagine what all the shops of those who just posted in this thread look like.. a giant freaking mess i'd bet!
why anyone would want to work in filth I don't know, I try very hard to stay as clean as possible because clean is fast dirty is slow.
Why do you say that? Because Tony posted pics of a place that looks more sterile than googles server facilities means every single one of us work in "FILTH" your words.?
My shop is quite darn clean, there is not one drop of ink on anything except the shelves and buckets and even there it is kept pretty clean. We sweep our floors, we wipe the press down weekly. We clean the lint build up often, and we work to avoid messes instead of dealing with them after the fact.
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I say this because in my 27 years the one constant across 'most' shops is their filthy! Ink and lint everywhere.
Good for you! If you're clean and organized, most are not.
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John I dont have 27 years but only a mere 15 but I have seen a few shops in my time and I seen both extremes. I am sure you been in Liquid Blue when you were here in RI I did and that place is awesome as hell, I never been in mirror image but I heard its pretty messy there. I seen shops in upper PA that were fire hazards waiting to happen and close to me there is a shop that is spotless but they also have very little work being a union only shop. Cleanliness is probably my biggest pet peeve in our shop, I have ruined enough clothes over the years because of carelessness and complete laziness. One thing I stress here to any one that works on the printing side is if you see one speck of ink any where it does not belong then clean it immediately not later!
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Some of the ultr-mega shops from th 80s were the worst offenders. Shops in Miami like STS stopped for nothing. They would just run the presses into the ground, junk them for parts, and replace them.
Fortune Fashions in LA ran 13 presses two shifts were on the other end of the spectrum. They treated the floors with an expensive silicone epoxy and had a full time "janitor" who kept things sparkly. They were a huge Disney house with Disney employees on site. Keeping things neat and clean was actually part of their compliance audits.
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Was it you Tony that said you seen the Starter print shop in New Haven way back when? Now that was an absolute nightmare of a place.
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Yes and yes it was. Some old clunker ovals in a run down building off of James Street. Finally burned up when a spray can went through the dryer. That lint is pretty flammable. Lot of smoke damaged sweats that had to be destroyed. I was running Resortworks/Yunz Industries in Branord and the next day installed a length of conduit along all the dryers. Precision later adapted the idea.
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It's in Myrtle Beach. Five Autos 56K sq ft. They intend to keep it this way. Too much hard work to get where they are.
Myrtle Beach? Wow, good for them. Has to be hard with a bunch of girls running around in bikinis everywhere!
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Yes and yes it was. Some old clunker ovals in a run down building off of James Street. Finally burned up when a spray can went through the dryer. That lint is pretty flammable. Lot of smoke damaged sweats that had to be destroyed. I was running Resortworks/Yunz Industries in Branord and the next day installed a length of conduit along all the dryers. Precision later adapted the idea.
Do you remember ever dealing with Sharp Products back then? We sold a lot of products to a lot of the big shops back then. I worked there as well as the owner here.
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No but that was a long time ago.......and a lot of xylene!
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John I dont have 27 years but only a mere 15 but I have seen a few shops in my time and I seen both extremes. I am sure you been in Liquid Blue when you were here in RI I did and that place is awesome as hell, I never been in mirror image but I heard its pretty messy there. I seen shops in upper PA that were fire hazards waiting to happen and close to me there is a shop that is spotless but they also have very little work being a union only shop. Cleanliness is probably my biggest pet peeve in our shop, I have ruined enough clothes over the years because of carelessness and complete laziness. One thing I stress here to any one that works on the printing side is if you see one speck of ink any where it does not belong then clean it immediately not later!
Yeah blue was nice and clean and yeah image was a mess. During my interview there, prod mgr grabbed a white squeege out of the press, dropped it on an ink covered table behind him and put a new blade in w/out batting an eye as he turned and went and did something else.
I personally started the ink dept clean up there and over a few months made it somewhat manageable but it was still a mess overall. Nothing against Rick, his employess didn't give a shart.
I built another ink dept here in cali and still to this day its super clean and very organized. I used to have newbies mix a cup of ink in less than 3 minute to prove how efficient it really was to the owner. Spotless ink cups lined all the shelves, no need for gloves to grab any of the 3000 colors on the shelves.
Plastisol is a pia to clean off anything after its set for a period of time so wiping it up immedietley has always been a good habit to have.
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I like to keep our place clean. Years ago it was absolutely spotless, now it's clean but not like it used to be. I will try to keep the press really clean and I clean ink drops up immediately but my guys don't always do it that way. This thread got me thinking that the next slow day we have we are going to wipe the RPM down clean, top to bottom.
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This thread got me thinking that the next slow day we have we are going to wipe the RPM down clean, top to bottom.
This is the time of year to wipe everything down and open up the dryers and de-lint them. Same with exhaust vents and hanging cords, the walls and any flat surface that is above eye level.