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Offline Dottonedan

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400,000 piece shirt order
« on: December 03, 2015, 04:25:15 PM »
I came across a printer that needed to start working on an order for 400k shirts.

Wow!  One order, for 400,000.  Later in the day, he got another for a smaller order of 75 thousand.

Nice, but I bet it's boring to run. It's 1 color, white ink on light blue. Front and back.
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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2015, 04:30:48 PM »
Quote from: Dottonedan on December 03, 2015, 04:25:15 PM
I came across a printer that needed to start working on an order for 400k shirts.

Wow!  One order, for 400,000.  Later in the day, he got another for a smaller order of 75 thousand.

Nice, but I bet it's boring to run. It's 1 color, white ink on light blue. Front and back.

In my experience, with shops that get 800,000 impression orders, the boss ain't one of the ones getting bored.
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Offline DannyGruninger

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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2015, 04:33:02 PM »
Thats nothing compared to the guys in china printing 800-900,000 shirts per day LOL

We are on the tail end of closing an order for between 900k-1.4 million pcs but who knows if its going to end up off shore or if we can actually get the contract signed
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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2015, 04:34:16 PM »
Quote from: Frog on December 03, 2015, 04:30:48 PM
Quote from: Dottonedan on December 03, 2015, 04:25:15 PM
I came across a printer that needed to start working on an order for 400k shirts.

Wow!  One order, for 400,000.  Later in the day, he got another for a smaller order of 75 thousand.

Nice, but I bet it's boring to run. It's 1 color, white ink on light blue. Front and back.

In my experience, with shops that get 800,000 impression orders, the boss ain't one of the ones getting bored.

Maybe bored hauling those sacks of money to the bank . . .
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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2015, 04:40:12 PM »
Quote from: tpitman on December 03, 2015, 04:34:16 PM
Quote from: Frog on December 03, 2015, 04:30:48 PM
Quote from: Dottonedan on December 03, 2015, 04:25:15 PM
I came across a printer that needed to start working on an order for 400k shirts.

Wow!  One order, for 400,000.  Later in the day, he got another for a smaller order of 75 thousand.

Nice, but I bet it's boring to run. It's 1 color, white ink on light blue. Front and back.

In my experience, with shops that get 800,000 impression orders, the boss ain't one of the ones getting bored.

Maybe bored hauling those sacks of money to the bank . . .

At that amount pennies per print if you are not careful. Wages, room for everything (rent), pizza, and everything else. That is my experience with it anyway. Depends on client though
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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2015, 04:41:10 PM »
Yeah - "I put 'em on and I pull 'em off" - all the way to the bank.
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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2015, 04:43:10 PM »
dang, we go "squirrel" around 1k pieces.......hell, I go nuts after 36!

typing that invoice up has to feel pretty nice though....
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Offline jvieira

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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2015, 04:44:26 PM »
Quote from: Homer on December 03, 2015, 04:43:10 PM
dang, we go "squirrel" around 1k pieces.......hell, I go nuts after 36!

typing that invoice up has to feel pretty nice though....

getting paid probably feels a lot nicer ;)
but we're on the same boat, 1k orders and we're jumping of happiness
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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2015, 04:47:15 PM »
no no - I mean attention span = GONE...1k pieces and I want to punch myself in the face...give me SOMETHING different to do....this is why I don't print. MY ADD is terrible...

and yeah, as long as the check clears...
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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2015, 04:53:18 PM »
The largest I've been involved with was 150K back in the early 80's, 1 color, 1 side, no real autos... 2 manual presses, one Advance Cameo flatbed converted to print t's (the same thing Advance did with their multi-printers) and a Filbar flatbed converted to print 2 up. Flashing had not been invented yet. And if I remember correctly, for $0.125 per shirt (it was contract) Had a shot at Obama's first inauguration, for about a million, had pricing through New Buffalo which we would have sub-contracted, and made $0.08 per shirt for a few phone calls, but of course, it didn't happen.

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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2015, 05:11:37 PM »
We did Obama's first one, 2 million shirts, almost killed me, but my old boss got rich!  well....richer!
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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #11 on: December 03, 2015, 05:14:06 PM »
Quote from: dirkdiggler on December 03, 2015, 05:11:37 PM
We did Obama's first one, 2 million shirts, almost killed me, but my old boss got rich!  well....richer!

I recently did two custom football jerseys for Marco Rubio, LOL!
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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #12 on: December 03, 2015, 05:44:26 PM »
Quote from: Frog on December 03, 2015, 05:14:06 PM
Quote from: dirkdiggler on December 03, 2015, 05:11:37 PM
We did Obama's first one, 2 million shirts, almost killed me, but my old boss got rich!  well....richer!

I recently did two custom football jerseys for Marco Rubio, LOL!

Bet you enjoyed that.

Did you have to supply him with water to drink as well?
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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2015, 06:06:48 PM »
Quote from: Frog on December 03, 2015, 05:14:06 PM
Quote from: dirkdiggler on December 03, 2015, 05:11:37 PM
We did Obama's first one, 2 million shirts, almost killed me, but my old boss got rich!  well....richer!

I recently did two custom football jerseys for Marco Rubio, LOL!

The one running for President? LOL

Steve
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Re: 400,000 piece shirt order
« Reply #14 on: December 03, 2015, 06:13:18 PM »
so what does that guy do with his afternoon after he is done?
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