Small order came in today...sorry couldn't help it

[Screened Gear]

Looks like its going to be fun.

[Dottonedan]

Awesome blossom!   

[Lonestarapparel]

How many is that?  What are the details?

Brian

[squeegee]

I'm guessing about 6k??

Nice.

[JBLUE]

I will throw out a guess of 15k. There should be about 35 boxes per pallet and there are few of those there.

[Denis Kolar]

I still have to many shirts before my total gets to that number

[Fresh Baked Printing]

Yudu?

[Screened Gear]

Sorry guys. This is not a job. I was at my local supplier and took this picture. In the picture is roughly 20,000 shirts by my guess.  I couldn't help posting the picture.  That's alot of shirts. It made me think how would you print this many shirts? I have come really close a few times to get a job this big. Do you set the auto up to print all the fronts. Box the shirts up after they come out of the dryer then unbox and print the backs. It's really a question of space. Or do you print the fronts of let's say 1,000 then print the backs and do that until your done. I know having two autos would be best. One auto set to print the fronts then after they go thru the dryer they go to the next auto and print the backs.

What do you guys do?

[virgil427]

Yudu?

I'm going to pull up a chair and watch this, you'd better have a couple yudu don't think one will hold up threw 20,000 shirts.LOL

[studog]

We did a job of 20k this May, 3 color front, 1 color back, 6 different backs depending on which state we had to ship it to for sponsors, and we would print about 6 cases on one side then switch so we could box and make room as we also had 2 other orders for 2k. Space was at a premium for us.

[Sbrem]

2 autos help; off one press, on to the other and into the boxes. We did 3K last Tuesday, started about 7:45 (set up the day before) and finished about 3:30 - 4:00, figure 1-1/2 hours for lunch and breaks. MHM 10/12 and Gauntlet 6/8. That's decent I'd say, for us anyway.

Steve

[squeegee]

The biggest run we have done was 18k, a few years back, it was 2 sided, white shirts.  We used 2 presses, 2 dryers and we had 7 people working the job.  2 on each press, 2 catchers and a runner for unpacking and moving boxes and inking screens.  The deal was keeping ahead on the first side to feed to the second press so finished shirts could be moved out of the way to make room for more.  It was hard work, I don't recall the time it took but I know it seemed endless at the time.

[mk162]

We did a 15K piece job a number of years back.  Front & back, we did it with 3 guys, 1 auto and 1 dryer.  I can't remember how long it took, but I got sick and tired of that print.

[Sbrem]

My biggest was for my first shop where I was for 18 years before going on my own, 100K, 1 side for Coca Cola/Burger King. 1 Advance Cameo 18, 1 Filbar chopped to run 2 at once, and some hand printing. $0.125 per hit... It seemed it would never end, went on for weeks. But we proved we could do it, and the money bought the first real auto, a Precision Starter Oval 4 color.

[RICK STEFANICK]

Years back while i was running production of a large contract print shop we ran 6 million prints of that old navy flag print they offer every year. we actually ran it several years in a row. 6 autos round the clock. The worst part was they had to be tagged, bagged and ratio packed in boxes. I dont miss those days.