Hang Tags.... Tips for easier application?

[ffokazak]

Were doing a lot of hang tags. Actually we DID a lot. Now we have a Change request and we need to do the same amount again. Over 12,000 pcs.

I have been looking for a pneumatic machine to help, but lead times on manufacturers are 5-6 weeks. {Maybe someone has  a used one to sell me This Change request came 3 days before the deadline, and 2.5 weeks before the cancel date.

So they have the new tags on the way, and we obviously have requested an extension on the delivery date.

Question is, does anyone have any tips on application for me? I know its a long shot but any chance we can get to save as much time as possible is the main goal.... . Oh and the elusive armpit location... ugh

So i thank you in advance for any tips! Cheers guys!

[GKitson]

Were doing a lot of hang tags. Actually we DID a lot. Now we have a Change request and we need to do the same amount again. Over 12,000 pcs.

I have been looking for a pneumatic machine to help, but lead times on manufacturers are 5-6 weeks. {Maybe someone has  a used one to sell me This Change request came 3 days before the deadline, and 2.5 weeks before the cancel date.

So they have the new tags on the way, and we obviously have requested an extension on the delivery date.

Question is, does anyone have any tips on application for me? I know its a long shot but any chance we can get to save as much time as possible is the main goal.... . Oh and the elusive armpit location... ugh

So i thank you in advance for any tips! Cheers guys!

If you are in the midwest I may have a machine I can rent/lease/sell to you, I'm in NE Indiana.

If I was faced with this I would be contacting volunteer groups that were interested in a fund raiser.

Buy a couple dozen tach it guns, offer them a per unit conversion 'donation' to their build a new childrens' nook in the library fund, or whatever cause they were interested in, and find a space with lots of tables.  20 church ladies could knock this project off in an afternoon.

My 2 cents.

~Kitson

[Screened Gear]

Were doing a lot of hang tags. Actually we DID a lot. Now we have a Change request and we need to do the same amount again. Over 12,000 pcs.

I have been looking for a pneumatic machine to help, but lead times on manufacturers are 5-6 weeks. {Maybe someone has  a used one to sell me This Change request came 3 days before the deadline, and 2.5 weeks before the cancel date.

So they have the new tags on the way, and we obviously have requested an extension on the delivery date.

Question is, does anyone have any tips on application for me? I know its a long shot but any chance we can get to save as much time as possible is the main goal.... . Oh and the elusive armpit location... ugh

So i thank you in advance for any tips! Cheers guys!

How are you doing them now...

I have only done small jobs of them. I just take a stack of 30 or so shirts and fold over as I go. I do the same thing when taking tags out. I'd guess I could do 3 to 5 hundred an hour putting hang tags in.

[ffokazak]

Yup we got staff using the guns, and tagging them by hand.

I can do one every 6 seconds or so, but as most business owners know, there is no one who is as fast/accurate/skilled/awesome as they are

I have even done my own adjustments to the system, which is putting the gun pointing straight up in a long clamp which stabilizes it. And then you only have to put the cardboard tag on the needle, grab a shirt, and push on the trigger with the back of your fingers. {The M&R/Ramko LLM tag machines have a  robot that places the tag, but the needle location is the same. That is where I got the inspiration for this method} This eliminates the holding of the cardboard tag which fumbling the gun. I find it faster, but one of my girls does it the old fashioned way. Not a huge gain in time savings really...

Doesn't look like anything would compare with the pneumatic machines at this point, but I thought who better to ask than the friendly members of TSB

[Screened Gear]

I think when your talking about numbers like 12,000 the handling of the shirts takes longer then the task we are getting paid for. Thats alot of unboxing, stacking, tagging, recounting, reboxing to do.

[ffokazak]

Agreed. There is around 90 cases of tees.

And the tags have prices for specific designs/sizes/colours as well. Thats right I say Colours. hahah

Not to mention over 10000 of them are folded tagged and ready to be bagged up.... Yikes.