Anyone have their equipment on vibration pads? Mainly thinking of compressor and dryer, maybe presses and emb machines.
Idea being to reduce any vibrational noise/feeling. Both are relatively quiet, (comp is rotary) but as I get older I appreciate quiet.

On the same note, what about embroidery room flooring? We've had both finished concrete and now commercial carpet. Carpet
definitely dampens noise but is a nightmare to cleanup threads, any kind of spinning vacuum doesn't stand a chance.

Hahaa sooo funy! The noise of packiging tape guns always drove me nuts, thus the paper tape dispenser. Get the largest toilet bowl brush you can find, it picks up the tread on carplet like crazy. FYI, embroidery noise is no joke to your ears, my hearing is jacked from the countless hours behind a 12 head in small room. A few foam panels on walls and ceilng will help minimize sound as well.

An idea for testing your heat press.
Some heat presses have a few elements and if one is not working it will be hard to tell.
I found the best way to test is to push up the temperature of the press and then press a piece of white printing paper, or lay a few down to fully cover the platen.
The paper will turn yellow from the heat and if there is a problem with a element then it will stay white under the faulty element.

Great idea! Thanks for sharing.

I use this attachment on my shopvac. The press area of the shop (roughly 18x40) is wall to wall low carpet on cement, it was a men's clothing store. Press, dryer and compressor all sit on it.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-1-1-4-in-and-2-1-2-in-VT2530-Carpet-and-Hard-Floor-Nozzle-Accessory-Shop-Vacuum-Attachment-for-RIDGID-Wet-Dry-Vacs-VT2530/100520393

Interesting that the announcement would come just a day or two after we started talking about it here. On the other hand, it does say version 2.0, so was there an earlier version before?

They've had it for awhile, maybe a year. I think there's another thread on it. I was miffed when I saw it advertised as I had thought about developing the same thing.
But then I started really thinking about the way both machine vision works and the way that human press ops work and I can all but guarantee the override button
will get taped down eventually. As an example the initial time spent "training" the machine on the first correct print is going to be far longer than walking it to the office.
Double extra so should the run be different garments/colors.

You might be better off having the cameras on press but the program running on the artists computer to alert them. Reality being the machine is going to flag all kinds
of non-issues, so a human is still going to have to make judgement calls.

I think M&R has it - look them up, I saw a vid about this from them this morning.........10/17/2025