Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
Quote from: alan802 on September 26, 2014, 11:58:40 AMMaybe I'm not looking at this through the right glasses, that's why I asked the question.put your money glasses on and think cost per minute. an 8 hour shift only has 450 minutes to be productivelabor hour in the screen room = $11.00 = $.18 cents per minute labor hour on press = $250 = $4.16 per minuteto clean a screen on press is both a time and money loss.
Maybe I'm not looking at this through the right glasses, that's why I asked the question.
Yeah Steve, if it were really that black and white it would be an easy decision. Where I'm at so far this morning is I've got an average of 11 seconds to tape up the second image on the screen so that it doesn't get contaminated with ink and I've got 2 seconds to pull off that tape before using it. I haven't had a chance to time the screen switch-over where we tape up the shirt side of the image we just got through printing. And then I'll look at the differences in reclaim between a 2 imaged screen and a single, along with the time it takes to peel the tape off the shirt side of the first image. Can anyone else think of other things I need to look at with the watch?
But most shops have to wait for the fronts to run through the dryer before the stack comes back around to print the backs. That's a solid 2 minutes for flipping a screen or plopping in a new one.
Quote from: IntegrityShirts on September 29, 2014, 02:10:24 PMBut most shops have to wait for the fronts to run through the dryer before the stack comes back around to print the backs. That's a solid 2 minutes for flipping a screen or plopping in a new one.That's actually a really good point I hadn't thought of.How does everyone organize ganged screens? That's a major issue for us too. When we put a job on the job cart it can be hardto be like "oh and the black screen for the back is with that other job over there" etc etc.