How many t-shirts?

[yoonbokim]

Hey guys,

I'm wonder how many t-shirt you guys produce on a normal work day per hr? per day? for a simple 2-color design

I just purchased a workhorse sabre 8/6, plug n go flash, 40 inch belt 13 foot long powerhorse quartz dryer, workhorse washout booth, and a ryonet 25x36 exposure unit

How many 2-color t-shirts do you think i should be able to print per hr? per day?

[mooseman]

Yoon
Your are on the edge of a great journey, no one here can predict your progress, destination or the adventures you will see along the way.
In screen printing we all see the same thing from a completely different point of view so to answer your question, who knows? No two jobs or printers  are quite the same and the only way you will understand the journey is to take the first step and keep going. After the art is done, the films printed the screens are burned, the job is set up, the ink is added, the squeegees cleaned then the printing starts.
Just go print something!!!!!!!!
mooseman

[3Deep]

Moose just gave you all the answers anyone on here can give in the real world of printing, except if your talking with a sales rep or an equipment manufacturer, they will give what the equipment should do and was design to do if everything is perfect in your shop..are you perfect in your shop?   Happy printing

[T Shirt Farmer]

If you are running as 1 man with the printed shirts falling into a box it will take longer to sort and stack than print. If you can schedule all printing 1 or 2 days a week and bring in a puller and catcher you will be far more efficient/profitable than running by yourself. JMO

[mimosatexas]

i can solo load/unload on our Sabre 8/10 at 35 to 40 dozen all day long (depends a little on shirt style and size).  As others have posted, even solo loading/unloading you will produce shirts faster than you can sort and stack shirts from a bin so get a catcher at the end of your dryer ASAP!

[Prince Art]

If you are running as 1 man with the printed shirts falling into a box it will take longer to sort and stack than print. If you can schedule all printing 1 or 2 days a week and bring in a puller and catcher you will be far more efficient/profitable than running by yourself. JMO

Absolutely true. Even on a manual, it's much more efficient if the shirts are stacked as you go, no messy piles accumulate, and the order is ready to box when the printing is done. Mutliply this many times over with an automatic.

[blue moon]

you will soon find out that printing only consumes 10-20% of your workload. It's the sales (taking the orders and customer service), prepping the art, burning the screens, registering the job on press, sorting out the and boxing shirts, delivering or filling out the UPS forms for shipping will consume significantly more than the actual printing. Your press is capable of producing several hundred shirts per hour, but you will need a large support crew to get that out of it.

pierre