whats your biggest "time suck" in your shop?

[ericheartsu]

Ours is registration. It takes us FOREVER to get stuff up and running.
what about you?

[IntegrityShirts]

customer service/email

[Screened Gear]

Ours is registration. It takes us FOREVER to get stuff up and running.
what about you?

What is forever? Give use an example and what press you have. It takes me longer to load the ink then to register. Press to press, shop to shop time to do things is very different.

[GraphicDisorder]

Ours is registration. It takes us FOREVER to get stuff up and running.
what about you?

Screen storage which causes a lack of screens ready to coat/burn which slows down everything screen printing related, but working on a solution now.

[Command-Z]

http://www.theshirtboard.com

And you know it. 

[Frog]

http://www.theshirtboard.com

And you know it. 

From this frog's perspective, that's time well sucked. 

[ericheartsu]

Ours is registration. It takes us FOREVER to get stuff up and running.
what about you?

What is forever? Give use an example and what press you have. It takes me longer to load the ink then to register. Press to press, shop to shop time to do things is very different.

it just took us about 4-5 hours working on a four color job with a pin lock system. We have an M&M Xpress (the missing link between the multi printer and centurian).

Poly White Base (160)
Flash
space
roller screen
Teal (272)
space
light blue (272)
flash
space
Poly White.

4 hours to get it lined up, an hour to match the ink. FML.

[GraphicDisorder]

Ours is registration. It takes us FOREVER to get stuff up and running.
what about you?

What is forever? Give use an example and what press you have. It takes me longer to load the ink then to register. Press to press, shop to shop time to do things is very different.

it just took us about 4-5 hours working on a four color job with a pin lock system. We have an M&M Xpress (the missing link between the multi printer and centurian).

Poly White Base (160)
Flash
space
roller screen
Teal (272)
space
light blue (272)
flash
space
Poly White.

4 hours to get it lined up, an hour to match the ink. FML.

Jesus!!!! 

[Screened Gear]

Ours is registration. It takes us FOREVER to get stuff up and running.
what about you?

What is forever? Give use an example and what press you have. It takes me longer to load the ink then to register. Press to press, shop to shop time to do things is very different.

it just took us about 4-5 hours working on a four color job with a pin lock system. We have an M&M Xpress (the missing link between the multi printer and centurian).

Poly White Base (160)
Flash
space
roller screen
Teal (272)
space
light blue (272)
flash
space
Poly White.

4 hours to get it lined up, an hour to match the ink. FML.

Wait 4 hours to set up a 3 color job. That is beyond nuts. Pin reg? I could set up a 8 color manually on my press faster. Why so long?

Sorry I wanted to be sensitive, but that is really long. You can only do one side of one job in a day with that kind of set up times. You must hate printing.

[kingscreen]

Screen management. Mostly de-taping, ink removal, reclaiming, drying and recoating.

[ericheartsu]

Ours is registration. It takes us FOREVER to get stuff up and running.
what about you?

What is forever? Give use an example and what press you have. It takes me longer to load the ink then to register. Press to press, shop to shop time to do things is very different.

it just took us about 4-5 hours working on a four color job with a pin lock system. We have an M&M Xpress (the missing link between the multi printer and centurian).

Poly White Base (160)
Flash
space
roller screen
Teal (272)
space
light blue (272)
flash
space
Poly White.

4 hours to get it lined up, an hour to match the ink. FML.

Wait 4 hours to set up a 3 color job. That is beyond nuts. Pin reg? I could set up a 8 color manually on my press faster. Why so long?

Sorry I wanted to be sensitive, but that is really long. You can only do one side of one job in a day with that kind of set up times. You must hate printing.

exactly. i'm working on this very hard. but it's giant pain.

The biggest problem with out press is each head has to have the off contact for each corner adjusted for every job.

and our employee who set it up, set it up incorrectly, and we didn't double check until it was inked up and ready to go.

We are about to do an 8 color job, and time ourselves on this.

[GKitson]

Getting customers to approve/release artwork is our biggest delay issue.

Close behind is incomplete paperwork from both customers and in-house.

Mill defects and 100% ship polices.

~Kitson

[Socalfmf]

WTF?  how many hours to set what up....at that pace it is cheaper to junk your press buy and new on with a real regi system....I am dumbfounded at that...and 1 hr to mix ink?  where do you have to go to do that? 

still blown away

[Screened Gear]

ericheartsu,

My advice for you on your press...keep everything consistent. Set the off contact and then just leave it the same on every job. I have my press so all the heads print the same speed and same everything. The white is really the only head that gets messed with. Yes i adjust a little here and there but not too far from my base settings is needed. This gives you a solid starting point on every job. With time it will be second nature how much from your base setting to adjust to get the print dead on. Thats all I have for you. I am no expert.

[ericheartsu]

WTF?  how many hours to set what up....at that pace it is cheaper to junk your press buy and new on with a real regi system....I am dumbfounded at that...and 1 hr to mix ink?  where do you have to go to do that? 

still blown away

working on it