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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: skent on January 02, 2013, 03:58:44 PM
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Hello world my question of the day is this.......Is it just me here in VA or is it just that time of year for everyone to be slow? Our busiest time of year is spring and summer, but dramatically drops off for winter. What say you??
Thanks in advance,
Steve
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Jan/Feb are the slowest, but we do enough different things to keep going okay.
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Comes up on every forum, every year.
For me, I start to slow down around Thanksgiving and it gradually picks and back to full steam by Valentines Day.
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just about dead last few weeks. Had enough work for three days/week. Things are picking up and should be back to full time or close to it before the Jan is over.
pierre
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Slower for sure in December and January for us. February is usually decent and then it's usually full blast till late November.
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That's funny, I always thought this was the busiest time of the year--maintenance time. Not for everyone in the shop, I suppose. ;D
I bet many of the shops cranking out serious numbers right now are printing for nice warm places to visit.
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Weird for us. Last year December was our best month every. This year December was our worst month in over a year, and worst by a lot. It was horrible. I was bleeding money it felt like. BUT we do plan for slow times so we trucked right through it, having a good day today so I hope it continues now that everyone is back to work!
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Slow as a turtle here to, but we've got calls and people coming in just not the good buyers or pulling the trigger just yet.
Darryl
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It used to taper down in December, but with Embroidery in house now it really ramps up. Lots of Jackets for our Canadian Winter!
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Yeah, we are usually busier than we were in December. I think people went from elections to Thanksgiving to Christmas and just got burned out and didn't feel like doing crap. Also, last year seemed to go really fast and I think people weren't even thinking about Christmas until it was right on them. Strange year for sure.
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So if your not printing what else keeps you busy? we DO also have a few embroidery machines that are keeping is afloat.
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right now we are repainting the office. it's looking good!
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So if your not printing what else keeps you busy? we DO also have a few embroidery machines that are keeping is afloat.
Pad Printing
Sign Making
Trophies
Parts screenprinting
Plus I have a long list of shop reno's that we didn't get done last Jan when we moved in.
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So if your not printing what else keeps you busy? we DO also have a few embroidery machines that are keeping is afloat.
Time off!!!
Pierre
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December had enough jobs to pay the bills and tuck a little away...... Spent time working on my auto and restoring it!
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Sloooooow as MOooolassas in the winter. But it's a nice respite. We were too busy much of last year. Not too profitable, mind you. More work isn't always more money, but more work is ALWAYS more work.
Wife and I have never ridden a train, so we might hop an Amtrak at Newton KS, an ride out to Glenwood Springs, CO. Just for the heck of it. Weird how you've gotta go East almost to Chicago, before you can go West to Colorado.
We'll be slow from now 'til mid February. Always are....
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I guess we are the weird print shop where Nov and Dec is the second busiest time after July and August. And this Jan/Feb is almost booked. Last Jan/Feb we were crazy busy and broke records. Then again 2011 was a record breaker and 2012 was a 12% increase over that. Nothing huge there but it is our second year where we broke that magic number!
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Stupid busy over the Holidays. Plus Inventory which takes a few days. Next year I'll be more careful about dolling out Vacation time.
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we are a one man shop with sp & emb. This is nose dive time of year, we pass on ALL the christmas stuff that could go across the embroidery machine, it is just not worth it. We should be pretty slow for next two months....NICE we are tired.
mooseman
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Embroidery fills gaps for us in winter. For example we have only 1 print job scheduled next week, the rest of the week is 100% embroidery for the production side, and its a ton of it.
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I am working on redoing the reception area. Kinda seems like a waste with less foot traffic because more people are doing things online, but there is no reason it shouldn't look great. The feature wall has been done for a while and it gets tons of compliments(I think I posted a pic of it a while ago, it's the old pallet wood wall). Now I am reworking the desk and trying to figure out how to do a logo wall...vinyl seems like the easy way out. I might build a wood "background" and use mask off areas and use different shades of stain to make the logo.
I don't know, I'm lost on that one. But, this time of year I get to make lists of what I want to accomplish for the year. It's going to be a long list. I figure I spend more time here awake than at home, so I might as well make it nice.
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Just added temp workers and have gone to OT.
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Embroidery is always slammed this time of the year, have a three person crew running 500 Carhart jackets two locations. Big stitch counts to boot. Printing is slow as is typical.
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Thanksgiving through New Years Day is absolutely my slowest time of year. Schools are on vacation, it's too cold for outdoor activities, people are into the holidays and it feels like the whole country sort of slacks off for a few weeks.
But there is always plenty to do. I have about five small jobs in house plus ongoing orders for parachute equipment, and it's already picking up. My phone started ringing again yesterday.
I know from experience that around May I'm going to be wishing for a little free time, so I'm enjoying myself...and as Itsa said above, more work does not always mean more money. If there's one thing I've learned over the years it's to pass on the "high-maintenance low-profit" stuff.
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Girls up front are redoing the reception area and conference rooms as they do each Jan. I shld snap off a pic or two they do great work. Tech coming in to connect and vent a dryer, fix an exhuast motor, and overhaul one of the fourteens. Need to be running on all cylinders by Feb !
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I was looking forward to the usually slow Jan.-Feb. but just got slammed
with non-apparel printing. OT for sure.