How many of us run auto's solo? (and what's your typical print speed?)

[Gilligan]

I time almost everything we do so I can understand what our true 'hourly' costs are.

Smart man!

[DannyGruninger]

In my shop single operator on our diamondback anywhere from 25-35 doz an hr usually and 35-55 doz an hr on our ch3. Our ch3 produces much more then our dback because of this. Just the other day we were double stroking a small chest print at 74 doz an hr with two press ops. Between the heads dropping and indexing system you can really run it faster as a single or dual operator. Wish my dback was a ch3 lol

[Rockers]

We do anywhere between 25-37 doz on our Diamondback-S as a single person gig.

[Dochertyscott]

Just getting back into auto printing of late and I've been running my Tas solo the last couple weeks. Can have it indexing every 10 secs which seems a nice, comfy, but quick speed... drop the dwell a second and it's manageable 2 seconds and it's a bit hardcore. My dryer is running parallel and I do need to move a little so should probably arrange the dryer better.
With an unloader can be indexing at 6 or 7 secs which seems pretty quick... but I'd rather have that hand standing at the end of the dryer folding as they come out... Would you?
We've had quite a bit of work on the last couple weeks. Me running the auto and another printer on the manual it's great having a catcher at the end of the dryer.

[hoogie]

here at the shop, my nephew (19) young buck been printing for us for three years during summer runs the sporty at 38doz all day long, 42-43 doz. when hes pushing it. I'm around 40doz an hr. with a double stroke with table up for base at the start of production till whites worked over then kick it to one index set at 5-6sec. there is a person at the end of the belt for catching and with belt less than 28" from load and unload station winged flood bars. If the flash is running we almost don't need an unloader IR flashes...javelin on the other hand quite a bit slower but still good numbers...

[jhinkle]

our shopp is all solo printing unless we have a small print and are single hitting. then we put 2 people on press and 1 catcher. doing that setup on a front left chest i have printed 82 doz/hr and only had to stop 3 or 4 times. it took bout 40 mins but i was done after that. to sustain that kind of speed for long is nearly impossible. myself on a small print i can sustain mid 40's doz/hr all day but that makes for a boring lonely day as u cant talk to anyone

[Inkworks]

I'd love to see a video of someone breaking 40dz/hr. solo loading and unloading so I can see what I'm doing wrong.

[jhinkle]

ill get u a video tomorrow if i can

[alan802]

I'd love to see a video of someone breaking 40dz/hr. solo loading and unloading so I can see what I'm doing wrong.

Me too, I'd like to see the technique used because I'm sure there is a better way than how I'm doing it.  I've managed to average 7 shirts per minute for 420/hr and it was very difficult to keep that pace but I did it for about 40 minutes.  I remember reading someone claiming here on this forum that their printer averaged 437/hr for 2 8-hour shifts and I can see that on a C3 or another machine that indexes really fast, but not anything else.  I think in spurts and the right technique can produce faster speeds than I can do and I'd like to see how it's done.

[3Deep]

I solo print and having maybe the smaller press than most of you I print from 21doz and hour to 28 doz which is low numbers to most of you, but good speed for me.... the way some of these numbers are tossed around some of you cats should be millionaire's LOL, yes I know you don't print numbers like that everyday, but when I read someone saying hey we print 60 doz and hour I look at 720 ph x 8 hours =5'760 pc a day  I say WOW!!! they be getting it dogg.  I'm sorry for being stupid at times but I look at real world stuff and think that's what you produce daily LOL, I been in this biz to long and sniff to much screen opener

darryl

[Inkworks]

I solo print and having maybe the smaller press than most of you I print from 21doz and hour to 28 doz which is low numbers to most of you, but good speed for me...

I think those are pretty good solo numbers. 40 doz/hr solo would leave me a puddle of jelly at the end of a day if I could even sustain it.

[mk162]

i think i've hit that once..it's not a speed I can cruise at and I end up panicking and stopping a lot.  The fastest I can cruise at is about 32-25 dz

[IntegrityShirts]

Here's me at 40dz/hr alone on a 400 piece job. I took breaks between sizes to stack/box shirts at the end of the dryer, then pick back up. I have maintained this for extended periods of time, but 36-38dz is a lot easier on your body haha.

http://youtu.be/9WELjwo3IdI

[tonypep]

That's a nice clip

[3Deep]

I second that, nice clip (Anatol press ), but here is a question I would like answered, I know every press has a counter and pph on the control head.  The other day and in the pass I've time myself to see if I was in syn with the counter, and my answer is no, so are you going by that counter or real world time?

darryl