Most screen printing shops struggle with the leap from manual to automatic printing. It’s a common conversation across Facebook groups, on forums, at trade shows, and in conversations with screen printers that haven’t made the leap to automatic printing: “How do I know if it’s time to buy an automatic screen printing press? What do I buy? How much is it really going to cost?”
Most screen printing shops struggle with the leap from manual to automatic printing. It’s a common conversation across Facebook groups, on forums, at trade shows, and in conversations with screen printers that haven’t made the leap to automatic printing: “How do I know if it’s time to buy an automatic screen printing press? What do I buy? How much is it really going to cost?”
Let’s get started and run through the basics of scaling your production capacity and growing your printing business with automatic screen printing.
When should you upgrade to automatic screen printing press?“As soon as possible if you like money and being profitable.”An automatic screen printing press is the fastest and easiest way to scale your printing capabilities. Automatic printing lets you take jobs you simply couldn’t print before. It can also give you more time to focus on sales and marketing for your business instead of pulling (or pushing) a squeegee.
Manual screen printers are great! They can do all sorts of creative things – and are instrumental in pushing screen printing into the future.
Virtually everyone starts with manual printing. It’s rare you’ll visit a shop – even a huge one – and find they don’t have a manual press somewhere in their shop. But purely manual screen printers have all sorts of reasons why they will not or can not make the leap to automatic screen printing.
Maybe they don’t have enough money to afford a press. Sometimes they claim to love the craft of doing manual labor for 8 hours a day. Others simply don’t want to deal with the (overhyped) hassles and supposed risk of getting an auto.
It's this simple: if you really want to grow your printing business, find a way to get an auto into your shop.
Read the full article here:
https://www.printavo.com/blog/from-manual-to-automatic-screen-printing
