ink rooms

[ericheartsu]

We need to build a bigger one.

I'd love to see pics from everyone else's.

Here is ours. Let's see some pics of yours!

[ericheartsu]

Another angle

[tonypep]

Here you go Eric

[KevWilso]

Another angle

I like the muscle man in the bottom left Eric.

[ericheartsu]

Another angle

I like the muscle man in the bottom left Eric.

That's a plush toy of the Tick! One of my all time favorite tv shows. We also do all the print work for the company that holds the licensee!

[ericheartsu]

Here you go Eric

tony, where are the shelves with the back stock!

[tonypep]

nother one

[tonypep]

here

[Gilligan]

Another angle

I like the muscle man in the bottom left Eric.

SPOOOOONNNNN!!!!!!

Man, that was a great show!  "Speak to me speak, SPEAK TO ME!!!"

[jsheridan]

Muscle man. 

That is THE TICK!!!


finally a thread i can post pictures in..

[tonypep]

Nice setup John. But after all how old is it?

[mimosatexas]

I love the idea of those cut outs in the countertop, and the drill press.  I'm going to have to craigslist one of those asap.  The hand drill has been pissing me off recently.

What ink containers are y'all using?

[ebscreen]

What ink containers are y'all using?

Delitainers here, and looks like Eric's shop as well.

I've got a question, I'm looking for shelving for ink storage and am having a hard time finding
anything super shallow. The majority of our mixes are quart size with some gallons, and I'd love to have
shelves that are one quart deep. The only thing I can find are bookshelves. Ideas?

[ZooCity]

We had our contractor buddy build us shelves out of 1x6 laminated around the outside of the screen room which we left the outside of unfinished so it's just done between/around the studs.  Works great, saves space and was comparatively cheap.  They fit 1 gal or 2 quarts. 

We use the clear vapor lock quarts for everything and reuse emulsion and wb ink gallon vapor locks until the seals go.  Black vapor locks for flatstock ink so there's no confusion. 

We try hard to keep our ink inventory down by using the IMS for Wilflex and, soon, standardizing our WB/DC color and trying to steer most orders to them v. mixing for 2 colors out of every job.  I think that's the first goal with an ink room, just minimize as much as you can.  That's my ideal...reality is we have about 2x more of the shelving in the pic wrapping around the screen room and then another big ass nsf rack full of ink with a 5 gal tucked all over.

You guys with the drill presses- are these fast enough?   I've been looking at high speed shear mixers, smaller ones like used in a lab setting.  I see an advantage there when mixing WB/DC from a PC/Base system.

I haven't read the Tick comics in a few years, some of my all time favorites.

[mimosatexas]

I use the wire metro shelves with 1/4 plywood or some other kind of thin material on top if necessary.  Whatever is cheap and laying around.  I have probably 78 or 9 of those units in my shop so far.  I use one for my tools, 3 for ink, 2 as dry racks now after that recent thread, and 1 for my pallets and assorted press related stuff.  I regularly buy them for $40 or less on craigslist or at garage/estate sales, but even new at lowe's they are $80 or so.  The great thing about them is all the shelves work on all the units, so for my ink units I have more shelves, and the drying racks have fewer.  Stock they have 5 typically.  You could frankenstein two units together for a 10 shelf unit that would fit quarts nicely.