Indexing so fast that the sleeves brush open areas on screens....

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Rich:

Is the video on your Youtube channel?

No its not. Its one my salesman took at a customer. Send me an e-mail and I will send to you. rich.hoffman@mrprint.com

[244]

Hmm lots of good points.

I like to have the most time possible for positioning, removing lint/rogue strings etc.  If your press cycles every 6 seconds, but 3 of those are spent lowering, and indexing that only leaves 3 seconds with the board in front of the operator. If it indexes in .75 seconds, you have that much more time.

Yesterday I showed the guys who's boss in the back by printing 200 Black "Staff" prints (So a few inches of stroke distance) at 2 second index on the press. I think we were at 92 dozen per hour.  Yes the likelihood that we print at that pace every day is slim to none. But it is fun to open the press up once in a while



Rich, is there a way to adjust the index slightly? So not a whole pallet size? The Large pallet is quite slow...

If this is a CHIII yes there is.

[244]

Hahah yeah! Tank season is coming up for sure!

Theres never an issue on Small tees, Only for the big boys!

I will send you what it looks like at 1,100+ per hr and they do it all day. 18" pallets makes for an easier alignment as well as controls flying sleeves. Send me an e-mail and I will send it.

[3Deep]

If this is long sleeves your talking about, simple just stuff the sleeves in the neck of the shirt as you load, that's what we do at our shop and never miss a beat.

darryl

[Wildcard]

Well I must say that when your production bottle neck is that the shirts are trying to fly off press at chosen speed then you've got a pretty good set up!

[Screen Dan]

I'm assuming that the sleeve being flung up is the one not being printed...because if it is the sleeve being printed I have no idea how that works.  Our CH3 is always set to max index speed and we've never encountered that problem.

Now, I have encountered that problem years ago on our G2s when printing sleeves on a very sheer fabric garment.  So I got into the habit of after loading the sleeve I would flip the other sleeve over the arm, right in back of the sleeve pallet.   It also prevents the sleeves from dragging on the ground.

Of course, if your press has ink there it's going to be a bad time...but it's far easier to deal with that than a spot gun on hundreds of sleeves. 

Been doing it so long that I honestly had to scratch my head and say to myself "why don't we have that problem?" ...took a minute to remember that we did.

[Colin]

This is in regards to front or back printing of long sleeve garments, not the sleeve itself

[ffokazak]

Correct I was referring to printing fronts, and having the sleeves rub up on the open areas of the screens.

Not even long sleeves, but regular short sleeves.

We just did an 11 colour print, and it was more apparent as there were that many more screens for the sleeve to hit.