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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Shanarchy on November 18, 2013, 05:31:43 PM
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Hey gang,
I'm moving my shop this month. It's just down the hall. Space is slightly larger and has some better perks to it. I'm probably most excited for the opportunity to completely rearrange/reorganize everything.
It's an open floor, 40' deep, 60' wide, with an open floor plan (no walls). Anyone on an open floor plan with some good suggestions or pics to share?
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We are completely open with a rectangle shape like yours. We are 50' and 110-120'ish for the production area and have built out a dark room and engraving department on the north end of the space but for the rest of it it's completely open with no obstructions at all. I can whip something up in illy (well, my artist can tomorrow) and I'll post how ours is layed out.
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i would love a square...rectangles suck for screen printing shops.
nothing beats starting with a clean slate. I love cleaning rooms out around here and getting to redo them from scratch. i found so much stuff i forgot about last time i did that.
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I have a good lay out for you....it looks just like mine!
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That would be awesome Alan! I'm trying to come up with a good, economical, way of building some kind of a wash out room.
I'm also trying to figure out a good way to make the area you immediately walk into the customer service/office area. I'm currently in a 40'x50' space now, so a similar layout. I want to make it where customers can not walk into the production area. I like them being able to see it, just not roam freely.
Brad, I think that is what I'm most excited about. I like the clean slate start.
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I have a good lay out for you....it looks just like mine!
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then at the entrance to the production area, have 2 turret mounted .50-cals . that usually says "do not enter" pretty well....
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or you can take the easier route and build a half wall with a an opening that has a door mounted on double action spring hinges.
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Yeah, I was thinking of possibly doing a half wall. I like the idea that they see the shop. Most customers seem to be surprised/impressed. I think they are expecting a big ink jet printer and a heat press.
Although, the 2 turrets sound much more appealing.
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We were going to have a 50-75' half wall at my wife's business between the "play area" and the regular area. In the end, we pulled enough existing cabinets to create this half wall with cabinets (upper and lower). Serves multiple purposes as not only is it a wall but it gives you a lot of storage for the toys on one side with the upper cabinets (removed the doors and made them selves) and the the lower cabinets face outwards and are used as is to store lots of stuff.
As an extra bonus we were able to use doors from the upper cabinets as tops to the bases that had sinks and such in them and to give it all a uniform look.
Basically a free half wall, just had to put in a bit of minor carpentry to them and build door hinges and latches.
Not sure if that is any help to you at all... but something to consider vs just trying to anchor in a half wall.
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That is really smart gilly. It gives you a nice counter space on either side you choose. Shane could do that on the showroom side for samples and use the cabinets for catalog storage and such.
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We ain't no dummies!
It was really a no brainer, we were taking down a bunch of cabinets as we were demoing several exam rooms and workstation spaces. We were going to have a bunch of nice cabinets with nothing to do with them.
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We ain't no dummies!
It was really a no brainer, we were taking down a bunch of cabinets as we were demoing several exam rooms and workstation spaces. We were going to have a bunch of nice cabinets with nothing to do with them.
Wow! you must be a fancy big city printer! We don't have even one exam room.... :P
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We don't have any anymore. We also repurposed the X-Ray room as well. :p
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Yet another "home made" exposure unit I imagine ;D
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I'm going to check out Ikea and some places like that to see if I can find some nice looking stuff that will look clean and professional to the customers eye. If it gets too expensive, I may look into framing it and putting a roof/ceiling on it and using the top as a loft type storage space.
Anyone have any idea how cheap used pallet rack/shelving is?
I think I may have a basic layout in my mind.
Let's see some pics guys!
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sams club and home depot have both brought in some really nice industrial type shelving. I would have purchased that instead of building my own since those are adjustable and they look a little nicer than wood.
Worst case you can just build cabinet boxes and leave them open, they are easy to build and is you use plywood they are sturdy as hell.
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Here is what I whipped up really quickly to show how we've set our shop up.
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Whoops, PDF is not oriented right, my bad.
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Here's what I've tentatively settled on for our space. A square would def be nice, I'm wondering how much exercise I'll get running films from the office to the darkroom every day with this.
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Thanks for the layouts. You two have some pretty big spaces!
Here's what I have in mind so far. Let me know what you think.
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I have a pretty tight space and like to try to keep my inks on the opposite side of the press than the blanks. I think of it as a clean side and a dirty side. When I don't stay on top of cleanup my inks tend to migrate to the clean side and every once in a while I have an issue. I would suggest maybe putting the ink on the wall between exposure/washout and the vinyl area. If you run a super tidy ship it may not be necessary.
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I have a pretty tight space and like to try to keep my inks on the opposite side of the press than the blanks. I think of it as a clean side and a dirty side. When I don't stay on top of cleanup my inks tend to migrate to the clean side and every once in a while I have an issue. I would suggest maybe putting the ink on the wall between exposure/washout and the vinyl area. If you run a super tidy ship it may not be necessary.
Yeah, that was one of my thoughts was making sure the ink does not get to close to the blanks. I may put a pallet rack on the left and right of the garage door, and use the one on the right (towards the corner) for incoming work. These should just be unopened boxes, but definitely a good point to keep the clean stuff away from the messy stuff.
Also, my dimensions got cut off. It's 50" across the back wall and 50" deep. The stairwell on the left cuts in 8'6" and goes back 24'. I have a loft type area above it that I can store stuff.
Keep the suggestions coming!
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Looks good to me. You have room for a larger dryer without moving everything else, seems like a solid layout.
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Here's what I've tentatively settled on for our space. A square would def be nice, I'm wondering how much exercise I'll get running films from the office to the darkroom every day with this.
I'd move your incoming table to back by where you have your inks or at least back by your loading dock somewhere to get a better workflow. Draw the path a load of shirts would take through your shop and you'll see what I mean, you can do the same with films - screens and reclaiming, but those look pretty good. you might be able to shift the printers and dryer to the right a bit and open up the shop floor too.
My Shop layout attached. Grid on the floor is 1' x 1' and we have the same size linoleum tiles down that are great for accurate placement etc. As you can see we are really crowded, the plan is to move the entire tool/workbench area out to a new covered area and move all the incoming and product sorting to the bottom left corner.... oh and shoehorn a bigger dryer in and move the old dryer and padprinting/rotary screenprinting equip. to where the orders ready to print area currently is, then build an addition and move embroidery and sign making out there with an install bay for vehicle graphics.
Sigh.... I ain't moving shops again....
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Can't show ours but think about putting wheels on everything that makes sense. Screen racks, pallet racks, tables, staging carts, ink carts. Ours in constant state of change and we can reconfigure on a dime.
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Inkworks, your layout blows my mind for the attention to detail put in the actual images! I'm trying to keep the work flow in some sort of a line. The black rectangle on the lower right is the garage door. I'm thinking of making it in a U. Shipments come in through the garage door. I think I still may need to do some fine tuning with it.
Tony, great idea with putting things on wheels. This would be a good time for me to start doing that.
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Consider this for example. The designated mobile staging area.
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Very nice!
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everything but our washout booth and a few of our tables that hold stuff like heat presses is on casters. VERY helpful.