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Offline blue moon

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hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« on: November 11, 2015, 03:44:48 PM »
'got an order for 7k hoodies with a front and back print. Better part of a full truck. No problem getting them into the warehouse, but keeping the staging up with production is proving difficult. We are tying all the strings so they stay out of the print and the press guys are cruising at almost 900/hour so we had to bring FOUR ppl just to stage. Needles to say, HOODIES are EVERYWHERE!!!

even creeping into the office area. . .

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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2015, 03:52:39 PM »
I see blue lint everywhere ;D have fun
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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2015, 03:53:18 PM »
sweet! I hope i do not get an order for royal bluee hoods coming up.
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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2015, 03:57:30 PM »
I just got done doing royal blue hoodies, nothing near 7k though.
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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2015, 04:00:12 PM »
we've run hoodies at 900/hr before as well... it's kinda wild actually, as they can run faster than tshirts at times...

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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2015, 04:01:06 PM »
They do take up an awful lot of room, hope they aren't 12 oz. cross grains... that approaching 900 is super impressive though...

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Offline blue moon

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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2015, 04:10:34 PM »
Quote from: Sbrem on November 11, 2015, 04:01:06 PM
They do take up an awful lot of room, hope they aren't 12 oz. cross grains... that approaching 900 is super impressive though...

Steve

7.8 and 9oz. we are netting about 550 per hour all day today. Guys are busting their behinds to make it out in time. We only had about 5 days from PO to delivery.

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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2015, 04:13:23 PM »
Quote from: jvanick on November 11, 2015, 04:00:12 PM
we've run hoodies at 900/hr before as well... it's kinda wild actually, as they can run faster than tshirts at times...

there is a groove in the middle of the platen now from the fuzz that's building up around the zipper. The build up alone is almost enough to keep the material in place. I think we went through about 15 cans of web tack so far!

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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2015, 04:25:21 PM »
put some goggly eye on your platens and it will look like the cookie monster  :o
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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2015, 04:41:05 PM »
Quote from: Croft on November 11, 2015, 04:25:21 PM
put some goggly eye on your platens and it will look like the cookie monster  :o

like this?

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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2015, 05:31:27 PM »
wow, and here we are holding 600 crewnecks for a client, thinking we are over whelmed! that's awesome!
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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2015, 06:38:40 PM »
What are you using for pallet adhesive?  We can't run hoodies (550-650/hr) near as fast as shirts (900-1000/hr) due to using web spray adhesive but if you guys have found a way to run them that fast then I'm all ears!!!
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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2015, 06:53:46 PM »
On large fleece jobs we position a "web spray technician" between loader and unloader.
It's an enviable position. Moreso than loader anyways, that much fleece gets tiring by the end
of the day.

More and more we're running the fashionable fleece that doesn't always require web tac.
Particularly with wb inks. Can't argue with that.
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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2015, 08:00:21 PM »
laughing my ass off...been screen printing about 6 years and have not printed 7K pieces in total. :P
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Re: hoodies everywhere! 7k pieces in the shop
« Reply #14 on: November 11, 2015, 08:29:56 PM »
I hear ya Moose!

And I'm over here still waiting for my first 70 piece order.
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