Manually printed / How many?

[Get Shirts]

We're in the middle of a large-ish job (8k), 4 color / 2 sides.. And I started thinking about how grateful I am that I have my autos, how amazing technology is, yadda yadda.. And then I thought, how long would this take me on a manual?  A month?  Probably. 

At this point you couldn't pay me enough to do such a thing, but there was a time that I probably would have.

What's the largest job you guys ever printed manually?  I think I maxed out at 300 before I ended the insanity.


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[Prosperi-Tees]

I did 1000 pcs once one sided 2 colors...never again, well if I get my gauntlet fixed never again lol.

[Doug S]

4350 here 5 colors 1 side.  I ordered an auto in the middle of that job.  Never again.

[stitches4815]

1000, 2 sides, 3 colors each side.  That is when we decided to buy an auto.

[Maff]

We are a manual shop. Last year we printed 1,000 navy shirts with a 4 color front and 6 color back. I think that took about 4 days with 2 people on press.

We've done larger orders than that, but not as many colors. We always team print with at least 2-3 guys on press and can actually bang through orders pretty quick for a manual situation.

But we are way overdue for an auto and have been planning to get one for a while now, along with a larger dryer and the rest of the peripherals.  But we first need to find a larger facility to accommodate the expansion... and finding that has been tough.

[3Deep]

Way back we printed like 3200 shirts on a 4/4 manual and you better believe I felt it all after we where done, I told my wife another job like this and it gets farmed out to an auto shop, glad to have our own auto and I still hate large jobs like that

[Racer Tees]

1000 pieces.  5 colors.  2 sides.  7 days.  Never again.  Auto is on the purchase list.

[Get Shirts]

Doug, how many flashes did those 4350 pieces require?

[Doug S]

Doug, how many flashes did those 4350 pieces require?

I was lucky in 1 respect that they were white shirts with 4 cp and 1 spot black at the bottom but it still about killed me.

[bimmridder]

I remember YEARS ago we did some bicycling caps for RAGBRAI, 5 color print, three locations, 3 or four thousand pieces.Ugh

[GraphicDisorder]

We did 1500 in a day before 1 color ink single sided on a sport grey shirt, was a long day though. That was 2 people and we were in a basement at the time so we were dragging 4-5 boxes down print them take 4-5 up. Repeat.

[jvanick]

we went auto very early... the most we have ever printed manually was 250 1 color in a day.

I'm always impressed by manual printers that do 1000's of prints.

But very thankful and happy that we automated early on.

[tpitman]

2100 in February. 2/2 with a flash between colors (white-print/flash/print/flash, then golden yellow). I've done this job for the last 7 or 8 years, although it was around 1700 before this year. I had access to an auto in Daytona, but to trade out my time and the driving made it not really any better. Last time I'm doing it, though.

[Sbrem]

9000 2 color fronts, over a weekend with 2 manuals, one of them an original Harco joke machine...

Steve

[whitewater]

1300 - 5 color front - 3 color back - 1 color left sleeve - 1 color right sleeve - White shirts though. 2 people, we did both sleeves at same time..pretty muched sucked..