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General => Introduction => Topic started by: volker on September 07, 2013, 12:41:19 PM
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hello everybody,
please excuse my bad english, it's still a foreign language for me. ;D
so let me introduce our company to you. we are located in dortmund germany in the middle of the biggest german industrial region. mostly we print for the music industry and we are specialised on color separations. our printshop works on six automatic presses from mhm in a tree shift system, so we can print up to 60000 shirts a day what makes us one of the leading printshops in germany and probably in europe too. our screens a exposed on a signtronic cts and are washed with a fully automatic grünig system. actually around 65 persons are doing their best in our shop :D
i hope to get some inspiring contact from all over the world.
best regards
volker
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Hello Volker
Welcome to the site, your English is very good. I would love to see some pictures or video of your shop especially the screen processing and examples of the prints you produce. I also run MHM press but most on this site run M&R equipment. Look forward to learning more about you and your business.
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Welcome, Volker. Your English is better than my German.
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hi robert,
here is a sample we printed last month for a big metal festival. please be aware that we use a metric system if you look at the size there. you find a small hp at www.printpalace.de (http://www.printpalace.de) or just find some pics of the new installed cts on:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Print-Palace/132758813450909?fref=ts (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Print-Palace/132758813450909?fref=ts)
i hope that link works. if not let me know.
kind regards
volker
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Beautiful print. Discharge?
I'm still laughing at Z's comment, but I'm in the same boat. Nice 'small' pic. (that's one of the only "Deutsch" words I remember from school ;) )
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Heck Volker, your English is better than many who speak it here! LOL!
At any rate, so glad you found us, and as you probably know, this is a knowledgeable, generous, friendly bunch.
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it is plastisol. we can do discharge, but it is more complicated. 95% of the prints we do are plastisol.
here is another kleines sample from a shirt we made after it was missprinted from a competitor.
just in case: we made the print on the right side ;D
the other sample is a (what we call) bigprint. thisone is a discharge print
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what time do you have overthere? it is 9 in the evenig here
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what time do you have overthere? it is 9 in the evenig here
Hi Volker,
'glad to have you join us!
East coast is 6 hours behind Germany and the west coast is another 3 hours behind. There are more ppl living on the east coast (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7052 (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7052)) so the +6 is probably slightly more relevant than +9.
pierre
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Time for mittagessen here in Arizona!
Don't get to use that word very often...
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Great printing and seps. Love it.
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Awesome to have you here! Is that supposed to be the singer from Tankard on the right in the "Rock Hard" print?
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yes, that's right, it's gerre from tankard. i did not expect that they are known overseas. :o
that's why i did show this picture. in germany it is a bad idea to show too much about your customers.
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Hey Volker welcome!
Looks like you guys have a nice shop there. Very nice work.
What kind of dryer do you guys have in those pics? The color looks familiar to me... Is it electric or gas?
Again, welcome. It will be neat to hear about the industry from a different area.
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yes, that's right, it's gerre from tankard. i did not expect that they are known overseas. :o
that's why i did show this picture. in germany it is a bad idea to show too much about your customers.
I only happened to know because I had a friend from germany when I was in highschool and he was into them. This was before Gerre got his currently defining feature, *ahem*. Since you are probably our only German printer here, I don't think you are in any danger. Also that print is amazing!
Just out of curiosity, why is it not a good idea to show your work? Is this before they are released? Eventually those shirts will be out in public, right?
Count me in as another person really interested in some of your less common equipment, like the auto screen wash. Do you use and auto coater?
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yes, that's right, it's gerre from tankard. i did not expect that they are known overseas. :o
that's why i did show this picture. in germany it is a bad idea to show too much about your customers.
Since you are probably our only German printer here, I don't think you are in any danger. Also that print is amazing!
Just out of curiosity, why is it not a good idea to show your work? Is this before they are released? Eventually those shirts will be out in public, right?
We actually have (at least) four members in Germany :)
That's merely going from the ".de" in their email addresses
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i wonder if there is a threat which asks for the equipment of the members and asks them to tell about their satisfaction or disappointment.....
this would be very helpful for all members to be more successful in their daily work.
we print on a "small" 10 pallet e-type, one 12 pallet s.type, two 14 pallet s-type and one 16 pallet 3000 mhm. we have a big splitbelt sroque gasdryer, a 180cm belt delta systec gas dryer (that's a small german company) and three different 1 meter belt electric panther dryers which also work perfect and have an extrem low price.
for screenmaking we use an autocoater from gruenig and an dts exposure unit from signtronic with a combined wash/developing and airdrying unit. the dts has a 10screen magazine and can spit out a ready for print screen every four minutes. the quality is amazing and is probably better then our old system with a heidelberg herkules filmrecorder.
we printed maybe around 30 jobs a day with 10 sreens each in average, what needs 300 films to be put in an archive every day. if you calculate 264 days working during a year this makes ca 80000!!!!!! films to be stored every year in case your customer wants a reprint. the needed space is enormous. we only need some space on a nice computer backup now. no more handling time with films anymore.
the washing unit is from gruening and is feeded by a 20screen magazine. it washes and dries a sreen every 3-4 minutes. depends what program you use (plastisol or discharge screens for example).
the results are perfect - screens never looked better before. sreens can be coated after 10 minutes drying in a "heatbox". i do not know the right word for it.
In the Equipment Section, there Are many threads and posts about Equipment owned and used and preferences of our members. You have to browse.
I also moved this thread as a split topic over to Equipment.
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yes, that's right, it's gerre from tankard. i did not expect that they are known overseas. :o
that's why i did show this picture. in germany it is a bad idea to show too much about your customers.
I only happened to know because I had a friend from germany when I was in highschool and he was into them. This was before Gerre got his currently defining feature, *ahem*. Since you are probably our only German printer here, I don't think you are in any danger. Also that print is amazing!
Just out of curiosity, why is it not a good idea to show your work? Is this before they are released? Eventually those shirts will be out in public, right?
Count me in as another person really interested in some of your less common equipment, like the auto screen wash. Do you use and auto coater?
I`m a German printer, but not in Germany though.
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hello everybody,
please excuse my bad english, it's still a foreign language for me. ;D
so let me introduce our company to you. we are located in dortmund germany in the middle of the biggest german industrial region. mostly we print for the music industry and we are specialised on color separations. our printshop works on six automatic presses from mhm in a tree shift system, so we can print up to 60000 shirts a day what makes us one of the leading printshops in germany and probably in europe too. our screens a exposed on a signtronic cts and are washed with a fully automatic grünig system. actually around 65 persons are doing their best in our shop :D
i hope to get some inspiring contact from all over the world.
best regards
volker
Hello to my fellow German. Volker, I`m from Hamburg but learned to print in London before I moved to Osaka/Japan where I set up my own shop. Running a M&R auto and a Chameleon.
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greetings volker
the only german i know is: Ihre Tochter ist achtzehn - and i dont think "google translate" got the translation correct...
a few years back we had the pleasure of printing shirts for my favorite (and very german) band when they toured north america - Kraftwerk.
in the past we have printed for Rammstein, KMFDM, and Einstürzende Neubauten
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D-- let's not the infamous Yngwie Malmsteen shirt (OK he's Swedish but it's a classic JSR work)
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Willkommen!
Hi there, nice to have you here. I've spent about 12 months in Germany starting in 1993 to 1997.
I have relatives in Karlsruhe area. Probably the best beer in the world :) And the chocolate of course.
It was nice to see BVB doing great last year in Europe.
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Willkommen!
Hi there, nice to have you here. I've spent about 12 months in Germany starting in 1993 to 1997.
I have relatives in Karlsruhe area. Probably the best beer in the world :) And the chocolate of course.
It was nice to see BVB doing great last year in Europe.
Great to have someone here who knows about German soccer.
What's your team?
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Great to have someone here who knows about German soccer.
What's your team?
I'm a Man United fan since I started following football (Soccer) in the late 1990.
I was a bit lost for a few years when I came to the States, but thanks to a Fox Soccer channel and now NBC, I try not to miss any of the games.
Loved the Kagawa signing, and I want Subotic to play with Vidic too :)
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hey rockers and dkgrafix - our shop is located in dortmund. so is there any question about my fafourite football team???
i did miss only three (home) games in the last 20 years and supported my team in 16 different countries :-*
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hey rockers and dkgrafix - our shop is located in dortmund. so is there any question about my fafourite football team???
i did miss only three (home) games in the last 20 years and supported my team in 16 different countries :-*
A BVB fan?
I was really rooting for your team last May on Wembley. To bad you lost Goetze and it looks like you are loosing Lewandowski to Bavarians too
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well were on first place at the moment. we got three new players that seem to be more than just a substitute. mikitarian is the most expensive player we ever bought and i believe he is better than lewandowski.
rumors say that kagawa wants to come home because he is not happy sitting on his bench ;)
anyway. we still have 27000 people STANDING behind our goal and we have real beer is the stadion. thats fun ;D
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well were on first place at the moment. we got three new players that seem to be more than just a substitute. mikitarian is the most expensive player we ever bought and i believe he is better than lewandowski.
rumors say that kagawa wants to come home because he is not happy sitting on his bench ;)
anyway. we still have 27000 people STANDING behind our goal and we have real beer is the stadion. thats fun ;D
Yes you guys have a great atmosphere at your home games, they even talk about it in England. At Arsenal the team I support it`s rather the opposite. They are too fancy to make any noise.
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hey rockers and dkgrafix - our shop is located in dortmund. so is there any question about my fafourite football team???
i did miss only three (home) games in the last 20 years and supported my team in 16 different countries :-*
Well you might have migrated from Bavaria to Dortmund still wearing your Lederhosen and cherishing every moment of Bavarian success;)
Great story about Uli Hoeness by the way. What the latest on that saga?
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well i am born here and i believe without a visa they wouldn't let me leave bavaria.
uli? looks like he's in serious trouble 8)
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I got the goosebumps when I saw this on TV.
Awesome
Borussia Dortmund Display Banner vs Malaga 09-04-13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTrOXwVxwrw#ws)
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Hey Volker! Welcome to The Shirt Board, an awesome place with great people. And very knowledgeable ones at that. But it looks like you already have a handle on things! Super happy to have another metal head screen printer on here. I started a band thread on here awhile ago that you should partake in. I need to post more pics but due to my current situation it will be a little bit before I can. But anyway welcome!
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hi brandon,
nice to meet you. where can i find this thread - sounds very interesting for me. is it "the band shirt threat"?
whats the name of your shop?
greets
volker
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Hey, yup, the "band shirt thread." I was with GSP but sold my half due to relocating to New Orleans and other reasons. I will be posting many more band shirt pics soon
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Brandon, so you retirement from active screen print duty is just temporarily? You think you will be getting back into the game in New Orleans?
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Brandon, so you retirement from active screen print duty is just temporarily? You think you will be getting back into the game in New Orleans?
Retirement? Hahahaha, no way! What is that saying, "No rest for the wicked?" I have not had a day off since my last day over a week ago! Screen printing and running a shop are two of the things I actually enjoy doing in life. I will be messaging you in just a bit Matthias. Several others as well. Talk soon!