i-Image in the house!

[GraphicDisorder]

Well I am glad this DTS thread has turned into another copy of the other tons of them lol. 

We changed the flow of imaging/burning/washing out. Freeing up a whole employee for something else. Hey maybe we can get our incoming garments sorted before the day it's time to print them now.  That would be nice.   

There will be other time savings as well for OUR shop.  But for now even that alone is pretty big deal for us.

[Sbrem]

Well I am glad this DTS thread has turned into another copy of the other tons of them lol. 

We changed the flow of imaging/burning/washing out. Freeing up a whole employee for something else. Hey maybe we can get our incoming garments sorted before the day it's time to print them now.  That would be nice.   

There will be other time savings as well for OUR shop.  But for now even that alone is pretty big deal for us.

I can see it for some shops, depending on their flow and size. And of course, being a normal screenprinter, I just love cool equipment. But, we have a full time screen guy, with close to 30 years under his belt. He keeps the machines fed, so we don't need him to do a different job. If he got more screens out, he'd just be that much farther ahead. We have enough people for the jobs we need done.  We don't have tasks waiting for someone to free up so they can get done. If you have the work, get the amount of staff necessary to "man the stations", they more than pay for themselves. So, for me, it's about where the dollars go. Like I said before, a new press would be much better. And we are very interested in going to the LED light source to get away from Metal Halide and it's drawbacks. I'd like to thank everyone for this thread, with all of it's twists and turns, and bickering, I've still managed to pull a lot from it to help with my decision making...

Steve

[Gilligan]

I think some ppl were making the point that vs spend 40-60k they would rather spend a small amount of time changing/fixing their systems... Ie: stop using carriers and use the trilock as an fpu.

If a dts is saving you that much time then there were other ways to save that time, but if you didn't want to take those steps then a dts is a "shortcut" to getting that same goal.

Different strokes for different folks I guess.

For us, a dts is just simply not in the picture on multiple levels for some time to come.  This thread demonstrates that we can make sure that we have all our systems in place and fine tuned as it IS something we can do today and still gain a lot of the time benefits that some of you guys are seeing with the dts.

[GraphicDisorder]

I guess what we can take from this other than beating a dead horse like some of you are doing, is that your shops answer doesn't apply to the next as the situation in each shop is often completely different in staff, space, speed of employee, layout, type of jobs, and so on. 1 answer doesn't apply to all unless we all run the same. 

[ericheartsu]

hi, my name is eric and i like to screen print. I like learning about screen printing.

[Gilligan]

Is there a term for beating a beaten dead horse?

[Sbrem]

Is there a term for beating a beaten dead horse?

Horseburger?

Steve

[Dottonedan]

Well, I was going to post a 3 page letter, but nooooooooo.   LOL.

[IntegrityShirts]

Is there a term for beating a beaten dead horse?

Necro-bestiality?

[Gilligan]

Is there a term for beating a beaten dead horse?

Necro-bestiality?

That fits!

[Prosperi-Tees]

Great now im hungry

[mk162]

i'd eat horse.

[GraphicDisorder]

i'd eat horse.

DO YOU HAVE A FPU FOR THAT.

[spotcolorsupply]

i'd eat horse.

im so hungry i could eat a horse-family guy

[Gilligan]

It's supposed to be more healthy than beef, I'm down!

But then again, I'd eat Long Pig.