i-Image in the house!

[Inkworks]

Yeah when you start bumping bottleneck responsibilities downstream you can get production gains that can be difficult to calculate linearly.

[Lizard]

thanks for the answers on the art output guys.

[Gilligan]

With a solenoid, there's extra costs, but there's also the wear on the screen and emulsion as the solenoids would have to push the screen back and forth.

honestly, since it still has to go through 2x even with a mod like that, I can't see any reason why you'd want to do that.

the 10 seconds it takes to remove the frame, flip and re-insert just totally seems like a non issue to me.

I think you're starting to pick fly crap out of pepper.

Lol, but ROI on masking tape can be calculated.

Now we look at tangible time savings vs throwing too much technology and money at a small problem, where as before we couldn't put a price on the unicorn feelings a dts gave you.

This discussion just got even more awesome!

[GraphicDisorder]

Today I will find out since our install starts today. I have this wild guess that people like Dave, Danny, and others are going to be right about DTS. 

[bimmridder]

Don't be messing with my reputation. I'm never right.

[jvanick]

Ours is about 30-40 days out... can't wait.

[Doug S]

Ours is about 30-40 days out... can't wait.

Congrats to you too jvanick. 

Brandt, you have yours positioned relative to your exposure unit the same as ours.  I remember your excitement and almost wanting to unwrap and start setting it up myself but I'm glad I waited on the tech.

[GraphicDisorder]

Ours is about 30-40 days out... can't wait.

Congrats to you too jvanick. 

Brandt, you have yours positioned relative to your exposure unit the same as ours.  I remember your excitement and almost wanting to unwrap and start setting it up myself but I'm glad I waited on the tech.

I just guessed on where I thought it should be.  We do have some limitations on power, none on that wall next to it so we can't get too far away from where it is now without adding some power drops.  May do it some day, but I think this will do for now.

[Gilligan]

What is the typical ink consumption on one of these guys?

Screens per liter?

[DannyGruninger]

Gilligan, I don't have exact numbers in front of me on how many screens we've made but in the last several months I've done thousands of screens with 1 liter of ink. Once I can sit down and do the math I'll let you know.

[GraphicDisorder]

What is the typical ink consumption on one of these guys?

Screens per liter?

I believe Rich posted that info in this thread or a recent thread.  It was tiny cost.

[bimmridder]

The average cost of ink per screen here is just under 7.5 cents a screen. This is based on close to 3000 screens made. Obviously my image size won't be the same as yours. We do everything from small doggie hoodies to adult full front. This number, for what it's worth is almost identical to what wax was costing when running the I-Jet. (full disclosure). Again, numbers are for MY shop.

[jvanick]

Brandt, how much "walkway/loading" room do you have between the farthest front part of the iImage to your exposure units?
trying to figure out how much to bump out the wall of the screen room.

[GraphicDisorder]

Brandt, how much "walkway/loading" room do you have between the farthest front part of the iImage to your exposure units?
trying to figure out how much to bump out the wall of the screen room.

Let me get it measured for you when its running and we have it in the final spot. 

[screenprintguy]

word of advice from working with one for 2 years, give yourself, AS MUCH EXTRA SPACE as you can. You bump your knee on the corner of that frame holder and be prepared to scream like a beeeeeeotch!!, PLus you are going to want as much room as possible. If you try to conserve space, you will hate yourself in a few months trust me, I'm actually in the process of laying out a room 2 times the size of the room we built for this beast 2 years ago, and then going to move into it, mainly for more room