"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
This thing is still kicking.
Brandt, I realize that you don't do any large areas of a single color, but... if you have...did you notice any speckiling in those areas on either the M&R or the Brother?I got our official TSB shirts that were printed on the Brother, on a black shirt, and the print is just not what I would have expected... I'm wondering if this is something that is 'normal' for DTG or not...
Quote from: GraphicDisorder on January 27, 2016, 06:25:42 AMThis thing is still kicking.Are the amount of ink and pretreat spray dollar wise working out like it was on the test samples you did?Very nice prints.Shane
Really awesome artwork and prints!!So are you starting to see situations now that you would pull a job from the Auto over to the M-Link? from a production standpoint...Or are expecting to only market this service and type of work just within DTG??
Quote from: Maff on January 27, 2016, 10:10:24 AMReally awesome artwork and prints!!So are you starting to see situations now that you would pull a job from the Auto over to the M-Link? from a production standpoint...Or are expecting to only market this service and type of work just within DTG??We haven't decided that we'd pull a auto job for the Mlink yet, but I can see that we my should look at it in certain scenarios. Time will tell on that. Right now with our DTG sales we wouldn't have a lot of open time for it. But that may change.
Quote from: GraphicDisorder on January 27, 2016, 10:29:21 AMQuote from: Maff on January 27, 2016, 10:10:24 AMReally awesome artwork and prints!!So are you starting to see situations now that you would pull a job from the Auto over to the M-Link? from a production standpoint...Or are expecting to only market this service and type of work just within DTG??We haven't decided that we'd pull a auto job for the Mlink yet, but I can see that we my should look at it in certain scenarios. Time will tell on that. Right now with our DTG sales we wouldn't have a lot of open time for it. But that may change.Yeah i considered getting a DTG a while ago, just for the sake of pulling high color low quantity jobs over to it, but what your describing makes more sense using it for a DTG specific market... just in a profit sense with the a higher mark up. We pulled away from the idea to focus our efforts and finances on expanding our screen printing instead... but I can see DTG still being a good idea in the future if we market the service right. It's really great to see all the math that you've been calculating... it makes the whole venture better understood.
So in 5hrs we put over $400 in the bank. If my shop can turn 30 shirts a day with that type of profit, 250 working days a year days, that is over 100k in profit for us per year running this thing part time.
I certainly get tired of seeing 8-12 screens for a 24pc job. Sure we are charging good for it but I think we could run them cheaper on the DTG.
Quote from: GraphicDisorder on January 27, 2016, 12:35:51 PMI certainly get tired of seeing 8-12 screens for a 24pc job. Sure we are charging good for it but I think we could run them cheaper on the DTG. HOLY CR@P...8-12 screens for a 24pc job, we'd be at $32 a shirt on the low side to $50 a shirt on the high side for retail to cover shop time, job staging, handling, etc.