How big do you print?

[Shanarchy]

How big do you print, and how often?

Auto users with a 16x18 max print size, how often are you finding this limits you? Or the reverse, auto users with larger print areas, how often do you have orders where this was needed?

[GraphicDisorder]

We print 15x17 as our standard size. 15x23 with larger screens (oversized).

[mimosatexas]

Manual only here.  I do 19 inch long prints CONSTANTLY on shirts.  Everyone wants "as big as possible" it seems like...  I do prints that are up to 23 inches long pretty much every month as well, though I charge more for that size (bigger screen involved) and usually talk people down to the 19 inch length unless they really want it.  I can also only do one color prints that size due to pallet restrictions.  If I got an auto, I would try really hard to find one that could do as big as possible.

[Sbrem]

ran a 14 x 17 the other day on our MHM. Not all that often in our market. 17 x 22 film. Did a race car job earlier this year about that size too. Otherwise we see mostly the standard sizes most of us print without much consideration.

Steve

[mimosatexas]

My "standard" really is much closer to the 19 inch length than 17 inches.  Unless it is a left chest or a few lines of text, it always seems to fill the shirt.  All the clothing brand guys, sponsor backs, school shirts, etc want big.  Just my experience of course.

[Colin]

We would offer it if we had market demand for it....

No demand (very very little really), so we do not offer it

Other wise, standard 15x17 print area.

[Screen Dan]

on our 23x31s we stick to 15x17...though we do have a couple 15x21 images that won't work on the CH3 and Gauntlet Z because they have slightly restricted stroke length...I'm assuming this has something to do with the AC heads drive train...we're talking like 0.25" ...it cuts it that close.  It's fine on the Gauntlet 2s.

on our 32x48s we do 20x25 and I think we can go as big as 26x38, but that's pointless since our jumbo pallets and squeegees can't even cover that.  20x25 is enough to cover the entire back of a medium, so, that's pretty effing huge.

...god I hate those jumbos.  everything takes 5 times longer and 5 times more materials to do.

[head north]

Our standard size covers up to 13" x 18" and we print that all the time.   Oversized is 15" x 21" and we print those often too.  Like Mimosa, it's a lot of "as big as possible".

[ffokazak]

Up here in Canada we've seen a trend for smaller, more subtle prints. I am not going to contest this

[ebscreen]

17x20 pretty frequently.


The ability to do something that others physically can't will set you apart.
I'd think like Colin as well but it's a "Field of Dreams" type thing.

I think the all-over tap out fad has largely passed thank jeebus, but there's always
the need for larger prints. And in 7 years or so all-over will be back in a different
incarnation.

[tonypep]

30"wide.

[Frog]

My max is a measly (by some standards) 12x13, and that is only very rarely not large enough for my market. In fact, I have found that prints as well as shirt sizes in general have gone down for me over the last five or ten years.

[Maxie]

Our standard printing size is 12 X 14.
Some of you are printing really big images.

[siestasol]

3 standard sizes here..
Regular size: 13 x 16
Jumbo: 17 x 24
All over: 28 x 40

[ZooCity]

15x17 standard here as well.

Next auto will be larger format.  It keeps coming up, not enough to push us into a larger auto immediately but it's an obvious need. 

What I like about larger format machines is we could go to 25x36 standard screen size- bigger sweet spot, easy to gang, image size that will work for 90% of jobs -and then stock a handful of max size screens for the biggest prints.