diamondback...

[blue moon]

Sam, call me.  Hehe, actually I have to call you.  I am losing an employee and I have no idea what to do.  There are so many opportunities that I am not sure what type of a person to hire.

I just went through the same thing few months back. The girl from the back stepped up big time! She wanted the job and I told her she was not ready. She kept bugging me to give her a chance. Three months later she is running the press and has two ppl reporting to her. Because she never worked at a print shop before, everything is done the way I wanted to rather than trying to introduce bad old behavior. It did take few weeks to iron out the kinks and we had a lot of misprints during that time, but boy did she take charge and make it happen.

Moral of the story, look for the right person. Training might be better than experience (As long as somebody has it).

pierre 

[mk162]

It's tough since Amy does so much here.  She also works with customers really well.  She has a lot more patience than me.

[terryei]

I have a 6/8 Diamondback.
IMHO, it depends on your market and your plan.  I do not regret getting a 6/8.
Obviously we run a flash on head 2 so only have 5 heads to print on.  We have done some high end 4cp on the machine and a lot of your bread and butter 2, 3 color stuff.
It has been good to us.  I can't recall a job we had to turn down because we couldn't print it. 
I'm a "little" older and don't plan on expanding much more.  Our business is not just printing and embroidery, we have several businesses we run.
What does your business plan say?  Are you going to go after the multi color high volume stuff?  There is a lot of competition for that , overseas and here.  Are you going to be the fast turn around, "guy to go to"?  Seems to be a lot of that business.  With an auto you won't believe how fast you can turn the jobs.
Whatever your decision, good luck, and call if you would like.
Terry 

[jesterapparel]

I have a 6/8 Diamondback.
IMHO, it depends on your market and your plan.  I do not regret getting a 6/8.
Obviously we run a flash on head 2 so only have 5 heads to print on.  We have done some high end 4cp on the machine and a lot of your bread and butter 2, 3 color stuff.
It has been good to us.  I can't recall a job we had to turn down because we couldn't print it. 
I'm a "little" older and don't plan on expanding much more.  Our business is not just printing and embroidery, we have several businesses we run.
What does your business plan say?  Are you going to go after the multi color high volume stuff?  There is a lot of competition for that , overseas and here.  Are you going to be the fast turn around, "guy to go to"?  Seems to be a lot of that business.  With an auto you won't believe how fast you can turn the jobs.
Whatever your decision, good luck, and call if you would like.
Terry

Is this the same Terry I just bought the 6/8 from?

[Logoman]

We run a Diamondback 6/8 and love it. It would be nice to get a 8/10 but the price jumps tremendously. Had it for 3 yrs and the only problem we had was a 4  and a half foot flood that covered everything. We cleaned all the muck off of it, cleaned it up, dryed it out and it is still running.
Pete