Comfort color shirt loading

[Doug S]

Ok,  I am the only one who has ever loaded tshirts at the press.  I've loaded tons of Gildan shirts without an issue unless I became extremely tired and usually just quit at that point or take a break.  Today I had the pleasure of loading Comfort Color Tees and had problems.  I even slowed the index to 18 seconds because there wasn't a lot of them to print. 

It looks like they were sewed a little whoppy jawed "excuse the terminology".  The tshirt weave looked like it was traveling to the left from the collar down.  Anyway to make a long story short I noticed the image was running up hill.  I verified the distance from the pallet to the sleeve on both sides and made sure the collar was centered on the pallet also as the pallet moved I'd look at the side seams to see if they were pretty close to parallel with the pallet.  It was a total of 70 shirts consisting of 35 ea of 2 different designs and ended up with the same result on both sets.  Thank goodness, I noticed them before the customer got there and told them I'd be re-printing them. 

Has anyone ever run into a batch of shirts that may have been sewn a little funky?  I'm baffled! 

[shellyky]

only problem i've had with them is the horrible lint build up and the smell...but i havent printed any in the last 8 months or so.

 Usually on a poorly sewn shirt you can always count on the shoulder seams at least..if you center those with the top of the pallet and pull down equally then in theory your print should be straight on the person wearing it even if it looks weird on the pallet.

[Doug S]

I appreciate that.  That's the method I'll try tomorrow.  I've never had this problem with Gildans as they are a breeze to load unless you're getting into the 4x and 5x range but I'm sure it's that way with all brands.

[whitewater]

only problem i've had with them is the horrible lint build up and the smell...but i havent printed any in the last 8 months or so.

 Usually on a poorly sewn shirt you can always count on the shoulder seams at least..if you center those with the top of the pallet and pull down equally then in theory your print should be straight on the person wearing it even if it looks weird on the pallet.

I like the smell..

[tancehughes]

The problem I have with CC is you can't use your spot removal gun on em. Also as a company they completely suck at keeping stock   


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[Frog]

The problem I have with CC is you can't use your spot removal gun on em.


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Comes with the pigment dyed territory. You almost need to factor in a little more for possible spoilage.

[gtmfg]

Or that they bleed worse then any poly I've ever printed. Or... that there's  usually more dye on my hands after printing then on the shirts themselves

[sportsshoppe]

I have and do... the Tank Tops are even worse!!! looks crooked as heck when on pallet but if you get the grain straight then its a crooked print. But our customers love them.

[Lizard]

The problem I have with CC is you can't use your spot removal gun on em. Also as a company they completely suck at keeping stock   


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You can shoot out the reactive dye colors, just not the pigment dye.  And the reactive dye also doesn't bleed like the others. Easiest telltale is the size tag isn't dyed like the shirt color. And for small spots screen opener on a rag rubbed lightly will save some shirts from the reject bin.