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Offline Screened Gear

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Re: New press and dryer installed!!!!
« Reply #30 on: May 09, 2012, 05:36:42 PM »
Average week?!  I haven't even printed that many shirts TOTAL... and that probably includes the ones I contracted out!  LOL

Just when you think your doing good guys like mattleague come and let you know you have hardly started. Matt your shop and numbers are inspiring. The more I think about it I like what I have and don't want to grow anymore.


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Re: New press and dryer installed!!!!
« Reply #31 on: May 09, 2012, 06:11:40 PM »
We do about 4000 a day over 4 autos and 3 manuals right now. That number will go up when June hits. Mostly 1-6 color 48-72 piece jobs with color changes. Lots of two ply shorts, sweatpants, and other specialty prints on the manuals. The largest job we do each year is a 40k shirt job with 4 color front and one color back. That usually take 2 weeks Mon-Fri.

Nice, that's a damn good workload for a day, I'd lke to average that for a week, but I bet we are slightly under that right now for an average.
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Offline mjrprint

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Re: New press and dryer installed!!!!
« Reply #32 on: May 10, 2012, 11:06:42 AM »
The difference with my situation is that we are a private label. We sell to the collegiate market. I personally think you guys have it much harder dealing with the public and price haggling along with everything else. My hats go of to you guys really. I just have to babysit 45 employees everyday. So I guess we are even lol. I love when something breaks and I can work on a press with headphones on and not answer 30 questions at a time though. If you like the friendly, family type of shop don't get to big. Once you hit a certain point its all business. I miss when this place was smaller and felt like a family. I don't miss the old paychecks though hahaha.
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Re: New press and dryer installed!!!!
« Reply #33 on: May 17, 2012, 08:18:29 AM »
So as I will be working this weekend I figured I'll shoot that video I promised. Shop wont be running but then I can at least show everything without getting bothered and spare you all from having to suffer from  6 different radios blaring like they do during production lol.

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Re: New press and dryer installed!!!!
« Reply #34 on: May 17, 2012, 08:23:20 AM »
sweet!

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Re: New press and dryer installed!!!!
« Reply #35 on: May 17, 2012, 08:52:07 AM »
I'll try to show all of our systems we use to stay organized and keep everything flowing smoothly. Hopefully they could be useful to you guys. We spend a lot of time coming up with best practices and procedures as well as cross training employees.

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Re: New press and dryer installed!!!!
« Reply #36 on: May 31, 2012, 07:13:27 AM »
I just realised I never shot the video whoops. I will do it Saturday since I have to work. Pardon my rambling in advance lol.