Garment Runner?

[screenprintguy]

Any of you guy use a garment runner instead of cardboard box or plastic bins?

[kingscreen]

We do.  It's great.  Wildly fortunate enough for find one used on Craigslist years ago for cheap.

[mk162]

we built one from plywood.  Put some casters on the bottom and it works great.  Had to modify it for the MD-8, but other than that it's been around for over 20 years.

[Shanarchy]

Ditto to what Kind said.

I'm sure you could build one if need be. As long as it's on casters.

[tonypep]

You should see the custom built robotic vs at Addidas/Reebok.........inline track w/ bins driven electronicaly  using bar code scan bar code to final destinations. Fun to watch. Could be overkill for some

[jvieira]

You should see the custom built robotic vs at Addidas/Reebok.........inline track w/ bins driven electronicaly  using bar code scan bar code to final destinations. Fun to watch. Could be overkill for some

is there a video?

[screenprintguy]

Thanks guys. You know some times when we have a very thin staff for the day, like currently, some jobs can just fall in the box and someone multi tasking can sort later rather than paying another knuckle head to stand and catch smaller jobs, I'd like something better than cardboard boxes that have been taped together lol. I've always seen ads for these things, they look nice vs a box, seem easy to clean and keep from being linty or dusty.


Robotic! man, no we just need a robotic catcher that can work the end of the dryer too, lol. We usually always have someone catching, but sometimes, I'd like to burn through a few jobs and not wait that extra few minutes for so and so to come out of the embroidery ect. 700 shirt capacity on the big runner seems nice. At least to catch a couple hundred and keep the flow going. Just thinking 

[Du Manchu]

I just ordered one after seeing them at every press at the SGIA show.  Just another item for the shop I've designed in my DYI brain for years, but never had the time to build.

The box or flat cardboard at the end of the oven is so underwhelming for the occasional shop tour for visitors.  You walk them through this fascinating process with an automatic machine, a pizza oven the size of a bus, and then their custom shirt creation just drops on the floor! It's like...really?

.... (Not to mention the floor contamination appearing on dark shirts).

It's a no brainier, so I doubt I'll regret spending the $289.00.

[jvanick]

I built this out of a sheet of plywood and some casters



holds about 400 or so shirts...

[pwalsh]

I built this out of a sheet of plywood and some casters



holds about 400 or so shirts...

You are Golden

[whitewater]

we use the cardboard box that some of our auto came in. Its on a set of dolly wheels that we used to move our equipment to our new shop. We bought 4 sets of wheels. 1 under the box and 3 others under the garbage cans.

[GKitson]

at the end of our belt are the boxes assembled pre-stretched Newman 23x31's came into the shop almost 20 years ago.

How's that for re-cycling?

~Kitson

[alan802]

I wasn't aware that many didn't have anything at the end of the dryer.  We ALWAYS have someone catching during a job but we've always had a large wooden framed "basket" that would probably hold 400-500 shirts but it mainly catches and strays that get past the catcher when we're running fast.  It mainly catches test print shirts but it's been many years since we've used it as our 3rd person because the few times we tried it I didn't like how long it took to sort through all of the shirts especially if it's a larger job with lots of different sizes.  But a pet peeve of mine might not bother someone else but regardless of whether you'll love it or not, use it like we do or in a larger capacity, get one.

[bimmridder]

We are fortunate enough to have the need to have a person at the end of the dryers to catch, inspect, sort, etc.

[tonypep]

I'm with Greg and Dave on this one. Its a QC checkpoint.