How many shirts counted on your Auto?

[Logoman]

I took this photo of the count on my Auto and them a few months after that the Brain died so I sent it off to get it re-programmed. Now my counter starts at "0" again. What's the count on yours?

[LuckyFlyinROUSH]

I keep selling them...two I have now are 2.3Million and 450,000 put on the other last year.

[alan802]

About to turn 1.6.  I've always been amazed by those shops that can put a million on an auto in a year.  I guess we average a little under 300K/year which isn't that much, a tad under 6K/week, 1,100 per day, and we average 8-9 jobs per day.  There are so many different variables involved that it's almost impossible to compare the numbers from shop to shop.  I always try to keep up with the average color count per job, pieces per job, shirt color, etc and I wish the color count was low, piece size was high, and shirt color was light.  But unfortunately that's never going to be the case around here.  You'd think people living in 100 degree temps for 70 days of the year wouldn't want so many dark colored garments.   

[GraphicDisorder]

Had our new press about a year, only just roughly 170k prints on it last I looked. Small timers over here. We print mostly black shirts, mostly sim process, mostly 4-7 colors per side and we only print 4 days a week except in super rush situations (rare).

[Screen Dan]

our oldest continuously running press, (the older one got put in storage for a year and brought back again)a 2002 Gauntlet 2, has just shy of 7 million...3.5 million+ of which I put on it myself over the course of 7 years.

These new kids just can't keep that thing spinning like we used to.  Just another case of Grumpy Old Man Syndrome?   I just went over to the machine and hit the counter button to get that number...nobody was using it...so, you tell me, lol.

[tancehughes]

We ran 139,000 prints last year, probably on pace to run closer to 175,000 this year. We have had our Diamondback since 2010 and only have about 400,000 on it. Our Gauntlet II has around 770,000 but we just got it and have maybe put 20,000 on it.

[tonypep]

Some of our autos are up just about 20 ys yold. Counters read 0.........M............G

[rmonks]

I have the auto that this little ole lady used to print shirts on sunday. It has 365,000 prints 2001 Gauntlet.

[jvanick]

We're at 46k on the counter on our Sportsman that we turned on in November last year.

# of indexes and print strokes tho is like 70k due to running revolver a lot on short runs...

[cleveprint]

coming up on the 3 year anniversary of our diamondback, we are almost to 350k. no where near some of your guys numbers, but im pretty happy.

[jamiem]

Oldest running machine 2000 Gauntlet  12m, newest running machine 2013 Challenger 3D 1.8m

[244]

Oldest running machine 2000 Gauntlet  12m, newest running machine 2013 Challenger 3D 1.8m

the most I have personally seen was a shop that had 8 presses, Gauntlet II and Formula mix. The lowest count was 43,000,000 and the highest was 48,000,000. Presses were old but running well @ 800 per hr average.

[Zelko-4-EVA]

Oldest running machine 2000 Gauntlet  12m, newest running machine 2013 Challenger 3D 1.8m

the most I have personally seen was a shop that had 8 presses, Gauntlet II and Formula mix. The lowest count was 43,000,000 and the highest was 48,000,000. Presses were old but running well @ 800 per hr average.

do you know what their formula for keeping them up and running?

clean air
clean electricity
avoiding spray tack?

[jvanick]

Oldest running machine 2000 Gauntlet  12m, newest running machine 2013 Challenger 3D 1.8m

the most I have personally seen was a shop that had 8 presses, Gauntlet II and Formula mix. The lowest count was 43,000,000 and the highest was 48,000,000. Presses were old but running well @ 800 per hr average.

do you know what their formula for keeping them up and running?

clean air
clean electricity
avoiding spray tack?

add in good maintenance...  if you keep everything greased and well maintained, there's not a whole heck of a lot that can really go wrong...

[Zelko-4-EVA]

Oldest running machine 2000 Gauntlet  12m, newest running machine 2013 Challenger 3D 1.8m

the most I have personally seen was a shop that had 8 presses, Gauntlet II and Formula mix. The lowest count was 43,000,000 and the highest was 48,000,000. Presses were old but running well @ 800 per hr average.

do you know what their formula for keeping them up and running?

clean air
clean electricity
avoiding spray tack?

add in good maintenance...  if you keep everything greased and well maintained, there's not a whole heck of a lot that can really go wrong...

i was assuming that the maintenance schedule was being followed. 

we have two (10 color) Gauntlet II  - our 2003 has 5 million and our 2008 has 2.8 million.  the (12 color) Gauntlet III that was installed 13 days ago has 23,000.