Props to M&R

[Parker 1]

Sam, which M&R press, Flash(es), and dryer are you runnin?

[Socalfmf]

we have the 8 color diamondback reno HW flashes heatwave dyer Iimage and Kool mist.

sam

[Sbrem]

We have 2 guys running our presses most of the time, but if the schedule is jammed, as in late spring and early summer, 2 on press and a 3rd for catching and folding. We have a full time screen guy so that gets done anyway. Like Tony said, whatever works for you. Those are good numbers Sam...

Steve

[tonypep]

For those interested heres how the 2,200 imp/per/hr/pr auto went down:
3,000,000 white shirts f/b one color 354 green. F/B printed  at the same time, double indexed, on the not yet released to the public (and soon to be dreaded) Precision Versa Ovals.
Sequence as follows:
load/load(fronts)/print/print,flash/flash/cool/cool/unload/unload/ flip/load/load/print/print(backs)/flash/flash/cool/cool/unload/unload.
2 people at the back of each production line. The hapless Prod Mngr (me) spent 12 hrs per day on the forklift moving pallets and loading/unloading trucks. At first it was a Chinese fire drill but we quickly turned it into a logistic piece of work to be marveled.
And that was one long boring Summer.

[DannyGruninger]

Figured I'd jump on the props to M&R thread with a video of my brother and I running our new CH3 machine......I'm still blown away with how fast the press is. We are running most jobs between 77-100 doz per hour with no issues.....I believe we were running around 98 doz/hr on the video on this post....... Pretty awesome going from a gauntlet that was 12 yrs old to this. Another pretty awesome feat is we were printing sleeves on our diamondback today and did over 6,000 prints on it......Flying for a diamondback! Anyways, just wanted to give some more props to M&R as this ch3 is amazingly awesome.

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[ZooCity]

Holy smokes, that press is fast as hell. 

These numbers you all are kicking out- is this total production time, including brief stoppages to re-ink, refresh platen tack, wipe off lint or while the press is spinning only? 

[alan802]

Holy smokes, that press is fast as hell. 

These numbers you all are kicking out- is this total production time, including brief stoppages to re-ink, refresh platen tack, wipe off lint or while the press is spinning only? 

I know when I speak of running our press at 1000/hr it's only the speed the press is running, not an average.  I would imagine when most people talk of running at dz/hr it's just what the press is spinning.

[screenprintguy]

man that's what I'm talking about, didn't look like they were struggling either, nice and smooth, that thing is a freakin beast!!

[GraphicDisorder]

Love that press. 

[alan802]

I think the speed at which a press can index the pallet from point A to point B is often overlooked when it comes to comparing autos.  Our old centurian was dreadfully slow indexing, and although it would run 800/hr it was almost equivalent of running the RPM at 1000/hr.  The 3 and MHM's of the world index so quickly that it makes loading the shirt just a tad faster so that extra couple dozen an hour doesn't seem any harder that a smaller quantity on a slow press.  I'd like to put a bigger servo motor on our press if the old one ever goes down so that it will index faster and also return to it's "home" position quicker so the carriage can then drop down.  We could go from 1020/hr to 1300+.  Not that I can load that fast anyway but I'd sure like to try.

[ZooCity]

I concur on the index times.  With air index you have to choose between faster and smoother, can't really get both.  I can see why almost all presses are now servo index.