Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
Been rocking the new gear all day today, and I have to say this has stepped up my printing game in nearly inmeasurable amounts...We've now setup 19 different jobs on the new press, and burned nearly 70 screens with the I-Image.Sorry film guys, but even our small shop that does around 20 or so screens a day can already see a difference in screen quality, exposure time, and setup time. out of the 19 jobs, 16 of them were multi color, and I was able to hit 2 of them with absolutely no micro'ing.While there's definitely some bugs in the Rip code on the I-Image that I'm not too happy about (mainly having to re-open the same file multiple times to get it to actually open without an error), the unit works great and is really easy to use.The new press, well, what can I say.. I'm printing right now at least 2x, if not 3x faster than I was able to run solo on the old press. We have roughly 5000 shirts to run this weekend, and will have plenty of help, I'm guessing we'll be able to push the press to at least 650-700 shirts/hr, and maybe even faster... Gonna need to optimize the Sprint dryer speeds tho... we're at 380 degrees, belt at 12fpm, and the shirts are around 340 right before they leave... I'd like to get the belt up to at least 15fpm if not faster... may need to lower the gates, as well as bump the temperature higher.Rich: you were exactly spot on in how much faster I'm able to print on the new press...
it's not super noticeable in the pics I posted, but all around the press, ink table, ink racks etc, there's 50# craft paper on the floor... hopefully that'll catch most of the mess...
bet that double wall pipe out the ceiling set you back a penny or two!