Moments of "doh!"

[tonypep]

Brand new Belt Printer. Fresh tac . Printed said belt with fresh screen. Carraige frame raised/belt indexed= totally ruined brand new machine (owner did it because he thought he was a printer)
DUUUOOOHHH!

[Colin]

Dollar amount.... I think Tony's story wins.

[Frog]

Dollar amount.... I think Tony's story wins.

Yeah, but they weren't  his dollars

[Frog]

As long as we're talking about bosses and/or other employees.
I started in a flat stock shop, union.
To save overtime pay, the owners had some non-union moonlighters come in to work a night shift.
One guy ran a full load of 36 x 48 campaign signs down the belt before anyone realized that the heat was not on.
It took a forklift to remove the resulting giant brick.

[tonypep]

Dollar amount.... I think Tony's story wins.

Yeah, but they weren't  his dollars

True that. Either way when the frame carraige that holds two 52x63 screens turns into a trapezoid well..........thats just a sound I don't want to hear again. Hydraulics don't care bout nothing

[Wildcard]

As long as we're talking about bosses and/or other employees.
I started in a flat stock shop, union.
To save overtime pay, the owners had some non-union moonlighters come in to work a night shift.
One guy ran a full load of 36 x 48 campaign signs down the belt before anyone realized that the heat was not on.
It took a forklift to remove the resulting giant brick.

Frog, this one had me laughing out loud; they should have sold it as an art sculpture.

I was setting up a job on the manual with a much smaller screen than the previous job and hadn't adjusted the spring tension. Wasn't long before the screen catapulted the squeegee and a bunch of ink all over the press and anything nearby.

[Frog]

As long as we're talking about bosses and/or other employees.
I started in a flat stock shop, union.
To save overtime pay, the owners had some non-union moonlighters come in to work a night shift.
One guy ran a full load of 36 x 48 campaign signs down the belt before anyone realized that the heat was not on.
It took a forklift to remove the resulting giant brick.

Frog, this one had me laughing out loud; they should have sold it as an art sculpture.

Actually, the art sales were different.
I cleaned screens on a big table covered with extra and leftover billboard print paper.
I was instructed to keep an eye out for those that ended up with visually appealing splotches and patterns.
These were then dried to remove any solvents, and were then picked through by a local decorator who bought some, framed them, and sold them to her clients.

[3Deep]

I think printing an empty pallet is how you know you've made it into screenprinting oh and with fresh glue

[Prince Art]

I think printing an empty pallet is how you know you've made it into screenprinting oh and with fresh glue

...and right after you've changed pallet tape!

[mk162]

I had a guy test print an empty platen.  I mean, swung it over, brought it up and printed it.  It was pretty funny.

We ran about 50 shirts and the oven wasn't on.  Brain fart city.  We hit the switch to heat, but  I guess not all the way.

[Sbrem]

How about when you don't realize until you're packing up the order that there are shirts missing? Somehow the entire order has gone through ordering, receiving, printing, and catching, then you look at the paperwork, and say, "Wait, where are the 5 extra smalls?"
Doesn't happen often. But when it does... "doh!" barely covers it.

Wow, just yesterday, a whole order of black, but with 4 purple added after the fact, the 4 purple have to be run. 3 locations, and neck label transfers... D-oh!

Steve

[tonypep]

When printing a mere pallet; it is traditional, nay expected, to call out "JOB OPENING ON PRESS SIX!!!!" etc
You all have permission to use this

[Doug S]

Pulled the mesh right out of a newman printing and empty pallet with fresh glue.

I'm almost too embarrassed to mention this one though.  I rarely turn my compressor off but I had changed the oil in it the night before, came in the next morning, turned the press on and couldn't get it to home.  I go to the manual, to the internet and finally called M&R and just as I got my concern out to the tech I remembered that I hadn't turned the compressor on.  That was an extreme doh moment with a capital "D"

[Homer]

who was it that sent a can of spray tack down the tunnel and blew their dryer up? that was a good'n........I think Rick Stefanick told me that story.

[tonypep]

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