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Title: Stitch Speed
Post by: ScreenPrinter123 on September 25, 2013, 02:09:14 PM
What are you guys generally running your machines at for flats and caps.  Include your brand as well as that may be helpful for those who already or are looking to own a particular brand.  I know we could increase our speed but wanted to first check and see if some of you consistently run your machines faster without issues.

Tajima
650 caps
800 flats
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: inkman996 on September 25, 2013, 02:15:13 PM
What are you guys generally running your machines at for flats and caps.  Include your brand as well as that may be helpful for those who already or are looking to own a particular brand.  I know we could increase our speed but wanted to first check and see if some of you consistently run your machines faster without issues.

Tajima
650 caps
800 flats

Barudans and we run same as you except some hats we go up to 700.
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: Doug B on September 25, 2013, 02:32:19 PM
  We have older Tajimas and run 600 flats and hats.
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: ScreenPrinter123 on September 25, 2013, 03:32:57 PM
What are you guys generally running your machines at for flats and caps.  Include your brand as well as that may be helpful for those who already or are looking to own a particular brand.  I know we could increase our speed but wanted to first check and see if some of you consistently run your machines faster without issues.

Tajima
650 caps
800 flats

Barudans and we run same as you except some hats we go up to 700.

That's funny you say that.  One reason I was asking this is because I am at the beginning of a 400 piece run of caps with 10,000 stitches and had bumped the speed up from 650 to 700.  Everything looked good but after two rounds but I wanted to see if others have run there caps faster with success.  With 6 heads I will be at this for a while so any time saved without pushing the machine too hard would be helfpful.
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: stitches4815 on September 25, 2013, 03:41:13 PM
I run ours 650-700 depending on the cap.  Flats I run at 850.
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: inkman996 on September 25, 2013, 04:08:05 PM
What are you guys generally running your machines at for flats and caps.  Include your brand as well as that may be helpful for those who already or are looking to own a particular brand.  I know we could increase our speed but wanted to first check and see if some of you consistently run your machines faster without issues.

Tajima
650 caps
800 flats

Barudans and we run same as you except some hats we go up to 700.

That's funny you say that.  One reason I was asking this is because I am at the beginning of a 400 piece run of caps with 10,000 stitches and had bumped the speed up from 650 to 700.  Everything looked good but after two rounds but I wanted to see if others have run there caps faster with success.  With 6 heads I will be at this for a while so any time saved without pushing the machine too hard would be helfpful.

Our machines are later 90's models so 700 is about the max for us on caps and only certain designs. But when you go to the tradeshows the late model barudans seem to run caps at 1,000 easily, I am sure they are cherry picked caps but from what I hear Barudans are the best at caps in the business. Not sure on other brands tho.

I would bump up your speed and if everything looks good and needles are not breaking run with it.

Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: GraphicDisorder on September 25, 2013, 04:28:09 PM
We are running our new Barudan at 850-900 on hats.  We dont sew flats on it.

SWF's 650-750 generally. 
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: ScreenPrinter123 on September 25, 2013, 04:34:03 PM
We were wanting a recent model used Barudan but got tired of waiting and picked up a 2006 Tajima.  We don't do a lot of embroidery but it has been nice to be able to stop outsourcing it.  I will see if I can increase it any more.

That is awesome to be sewing at that speed on caps Brandt.  Money well spent on your Barudan if I say so myself.
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: GraphicDisorder on September 25, 2013, 04:42:22 PM
We were wanting a recent model used Barudan but got tired of waiting and picked up a 2006 Tajima.  We don't do a lot of embroidery but it has been nice to be able to stop outsourcing it.  I will see if I can increase it any more.

That is awesome to be sewing at that speed on caps Brandt.  Money well spent on your Barudan if I say so myself.

It's enough I want to sell my SWFs and replace it with more Barudans for sure.  But we are in a GOOD place right now with number of machines so we can be real felxiable with it all, we have cut a general 2-3 week time line to more like 1.5 week turn on the high side since having it.  It's blowing through work. 
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: alan802 on September 25, 2013, 05:00:16 PM
750 on flats and 650-700 on caps on old Tajimas.
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: tancehughes on September 25, 2013, 05:25:50 PM
By no means are we a good example to go by since we are so new to embroidery, but we are running caps at 650 and flats at 850. It's been really nice to run all of our embroidery ourselves and we are learning so much every day as we keep the thing running all day every day. I just wish we knew so much more!

We are running a 2000 model Tajima 4 head
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: beanie357 on September 25, 2013, 06:29:38 PM
New tajimas
900-950 flats depending on jumps and trims
700 hats
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: Admiral on September 25, 2013, 06:31:25 PM
flats
860-960 depending on design

hats
680-760 depending on design
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: Denis Kolar on September 26, 2013, 07:59:20 AM
650 on hats and around 700-750 on flats.

No rush :)
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: Homer on September 26, 2013, 08:03:00 AM
wow, we are at 850-920 on everything...mainly due to I don't have a clue what I'm doing..so do it faster!! haha

toyota 850, 1997 model too....
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: GraphicDisorder on September 26, 2013, 08:26:56 AM
mainly due to I don't have a clue what I'm doing..so do it faster!! haha


Fake it till you make it buddy.
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: JBLUE on September 26, 2013, 02:12:16 PM
We are running our new Barudan at 850-900 on hats.  We dont sew flats on it.

SWF's 650-750 generally.

Makes a difference huh?........ ;) Running flats as we speak at 1k per minute on the 4 head. We only slow down if the job requires it. We are stupid picky on the embroidery so at that speed for it to be A+ speaks volumes for the machine.
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: GraphicDisorder on September 26, 2013, 02:47:27 PM
We are running our new Barudan at 850-900 on hats.  We dont sew flats on it.

SWF's 650-750 generally.

Makes a difference huh?........ ;) Running flats as we speak at 1k per minute on the 4 head. We only slow down if the job requires it. We are stupid picky on the embroidery so at that speed for it to be A+ speaks volumes for the machine.

It's a great machine.  I can't say a lot of good things about the tech or the paper work, BUT the machine is amazing after I fixed it LOL
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: GaryG on September 26, 2013, 05:10:10 PM
Homer we bought  a local company out 10 years ago and they had a Toyota 830.
Learned a bunch on it before our Tajima. It was a tank until computer went.

Flats 750-850
Caps 650-750
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: JBLUE on September 26, 2013, 08:28:21 PM
We are running our new Barudan at 850-900 on hats.  We dont sew flats on it.

SWF's 650-750 generally.

Makes a difference huh?........ ;) Running flats as we speak at 1k per minute on the 4 head. We only slow down if the job requires it. We are stupid picky on the embroidery so at that speed for it to be A+ speaks volumes for the machine.

It's a great machine.  I can't say a lot of good things about the tech or the paper work, BUT the machine is amazing after I fixed it LOL

I second that on the paperwork. The Tech we had though was awesome. He was also a Wilcom trainer so it was a double bonus.
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: Denis Kolar on September 27, 2013, 07:16:38 AM
650 on hats and around 700-750 on flats.

No rush :)
Just to add to this, I'm a one man shop and usually I'm doing something else while embroidering too. That is why the low speeds.
I usually wash screens, do the design work, expose.........

If I could be doing only embroidery, I was sewing flats at 850 and hats around 700-750.
There is nothing wrong with the machines so I would have to slow down.
Title: Re: Stitch Speed
Post by: GraphicDisorder on September 27, 2013, 07:35:54 AM
We are running our new Barudan at 850-900 on hats.  We dont sew flats on it.

SWF's 650-750 generally.

Makes a difference huh?........ ;) Running flats as we speak at 1k per minute on the 4 head. We only slow down if the job requires it. We are stupid picky on the embroidery so at that speed for it to be A+ speaks volumes for the machine.

It's a great machine.  I can't say a lot of good things about the tech or the paper work, BUT the machine is amazing after I fixed it LOL

I second that on the paperwork. The Tech we had though was awesome. He was also a Wilcom trainer so it was a double bonus.

Our guy showed late, left early.  didn't set but one of the trimmers.  I had to set all 6 trimmers myself a couple weeks ago as most of the heads where not trimming.  Ridiculous to have to do that on a brand new machine.  I wasn't happy.  After fixing them they called me a few days ago to tell me that our machine also has some incorrect parts in it, so a tech will be here Monday to replace those.  Ugh... 

But no BS its a great machine as you know.  Sewing hats at 900 with ease on this thing and watching SWFs next to it struggling at 650 is writting on the wall for these SWF's.  as we need machines I will be replacing with Barudan.  May still keep my SWF's though.  One nice thing about many machines is flexibility.  The other day we were doing bulk jacket order on the 2 4 heads, fronts on one, backs on the other.  We were doing a bulk hat run on the other 9 heads.  The profit per hours was staggering out of the embroidery area that day.