Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
300 hats on a single is nuts, honestly I bet you can sub that out and make as much or more on it. We could have that run in several hours tops.
I wouldn't do that many on a single. Check around, I bet you can get them sewn for under $2 each.
2400 stitches is nothing, I am running a left chest design with 19,000 right now. I think the 74 pcs will put me through over 20 bobbins...I have been lining them up like little soldiers...I have plenty of time between runs.
go for it Dennis. Eventually, you'll want to sub out what can be done less expensively, and do what you do best with your equipment, or of course, start buying more equipment. But you need the experience under your belt. I worked for someone else for about 18 years before going on my own 20 years ago. Our first big job was when the Pope came to Boston in '79. We had 5 designs all being printed by hand. For one color, we had 3 people on a manual with a speed table, one loader, one unloader, and one printer. Over 200 per hour easy. I guess what I'm saying is you'll figure out what works best by experiencing doing the process yourself, then you have something to work with when contemplating the next job. One embroiderer that we print for gets tens of thousands of hats made in China. Complete custom hats for under a buck. They lose bids over a penny. But they don't have to do anything but place phone calls, and meanwhile his machines run "normal" orders.Steve
We are in the middle of a 7500 hat run right now. It's nice to have big orders like that but lot's of other customers can suffer and it ties up the machines. I had an opportunity to bid on a 20K piece screen printing order last week but they needed a fast turnaround and we would have had to only print that one job for 5 days and we have over 40 screen printing jobs in the system right now. Trying to do 4K pieces a day for 5 days in this heat is asking for trouble as well. Oh well, it wasn't meant to be. Why don't 20K piece jobs come around in February?
Quote from: alan802 on August 17, 2011, 09:42:53 AMWe are in the middle of a 7500 hat run right now. It's nice to have big orders like that but lot's of other customers can suffer and it ties up the machines. I had an opportunity to bid on a 20K piece screen printing order last week but they needed a fast turnaround and we would have had to only print that one job for 5 days and we have over 40 screen printing jobs in the system right now. Trying to do 4K pieces a day for 5 days in this heat is asking for trouble as well. Oh well, it wasn't meant to be. Why don't 20K piece jobs come around in February?I got room for it.
Quote from: Clark on August 17, 2011, 11:37:19 AMQuote from: alan802 on August 17, 2011, 09:42:53 AMWe are in the middle of a 7500 hat run right now. It's nice to have big orders like that but lot's of other customers can suffer and it ties up the machines. I had an opportunity to bid on a 20K piece screen printing order last week but they needed a fast turnaround and we would have had to only print that one job for 5 days and we have over 40 screen printing jobs in the system right now. Trying to do 4K pieces a day for 5 days in this heat is asking for trouble as well. Oh well, it wasn't meant to be. Why don't 20K piece jobs come around in February?I got room for it. Next time I come across one of those big bids I'll forward it to you as well. If we don't get it, I'd want a friend to have it.
We are having our second lazer installed this week and two more 8 heads are on the way.