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Realistic printing speeds
Maxie:
We're making some staff changes and I want to make a table with numbers we can aim for. I also want to plan production based on numbers. We use Monday and have a lists of all the jobs to be printed but without times. I want to add times and be able to check at the end of the day if we're keeping up.
At the moment the printer prints at whatever speed he's in the mood for and we have no way the check.
We're are not a normal print shop, we don't do custom printing, we only sell printed shirts. The shirts we import from India and print here. We average about 1400 prints a day which is very slow. I want to keep the figures with less staff.
blue moon:
--- Quote from: Maxie on May 29, 2024, 05:10:05 AM ---We're making some staff changes and I want to make a table with numbers we can aim for. I also want to plan production based on numbers. We use Monday and have a lists of all the jobs to be printed but without times. I want to add times and be able to check at the end of the day if we're keeping up.
At the moment the printer prints at whatever speed he's in the mood for and we have no way the check.
We're are not a normal print shop, we don't do custom printing, we only sell printed shirts. The shirts we import from India and print here. We average about 1400 prints a day which is very slow. I want to keep the figures with less staff.
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1400 finished goods on one press is not bad. It will depend on the number of ppl you have working on the press and how many jobs you print per day. If it was just one design, that’s low, but from what I remember you have multiple setups with higher color counts.
Even with two ppl operating the press(loader and puller) you still need to burn screens and mix inks. If they are doing that too, 1400 is a good number.
This all heavily depends on how many setups you do per day. If it’s 2, you should produce more. If it’s 8 then they are doing well.
My suggestion would be to work based on dollars per hour (or your equivalent).
pj
Maxie:
At the moment we average about 230 per hour so if we are printing 1400 per day we need 6 hours.
Our work day is 8.5 hours net so that leaves 2.5 hrs a day for washing screens, exposing, etc.
Right now we have 2 people on the press, a catcher and a fourth person who gets orders ready, ships, etc.
I think we can manage with one person less, the printer can work alone on smaller jobs and get help with big orders.
blue moon:
--- Quote from: Maxie on May 30, 2024, 04:14:51 AM ---At the moment we average about 230 per hour so if we are printing 1400 per day we need 6 hours.
Our work day is 8.5 hours net so that leaves 2.5 hrs a day for washing screens, exposing, etc.
Right now we have 2 people on the press, a catcher and a fourth person who gets orders ready, ships, etc.
I think we can manage with one person less, the printer can work alone on smaller jobs and get help with big orders.
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What is your average order size?
Maxie:
Average about 75, a lot have front and back. Now and again sleeve as well.
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