"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
Its alot of work. I am really asking this in hind sight. I already got the job and finishing it up this week. I messed up and never thought about how long it would take (way to busy to quote everything up front, client knows my pricing and is fine with what ever it comes to). It took over 15 hours to sort all the shirts into the orders. Many have color changes so all the jobs break down into close to 100 piles of shirts. Then you have the sizes that need to be sorted out at the end of printing each. You don't think about the time it takes for that, normally only 10 mins a job. But when you multiply that by almost 100 jobs (with color changes) its over whelming. Here is a question: how long would you have told them this would take???
Quote from: Screened Gear on July 25, 2012, 03:42:22 PMIts alot of work. I am really asking this in hind sight. I already got the job and finishing it up this week. I messed up and never thought about how long it would take (way to busy to quote everything up front, client knows my pricing and is fine with what ever it comes to). It took over 15 hours to sort all the shirts into the orders. Many have color changes so all the jobs break down into close to 100 piles of shirts. Then you have the sizes that need to be sorted out at the end of printing each. You don't think about the time it takes for that, normally only 10 mins a job. But when you multiply that by almost 100 jobs (with color changes) its over whelming. Here is a question: how long would you have told them this would take???we have printed as many as 30 of those in a day. So there's solid two days worth of work. Adding it to other work, we'd probably tell them about 10 days (to make sure we get all the art and garments ready).but, that was with six ppl. . . .pierre
Quote from: blue moon on July 25, 2012, 04:15:03 PMQuote from: Screened Gear on July 25, 2012, 03:42:22 PMIts alot of work. I am really asking this in hind sight. I already got the job and finishing it up this week. I messed up and never thought about how long it would take (way to busy to quote everything up front, client knows my pricing and is fine with what ever it comes to). It took over 15 hours to sort all the shirts into the orders. Many have color changes so all the jobs break down into close to 100 piles of shirts. Then you have the sizes that need to be sorted out at the end of printing each. You don't think about the time it takes for that, normally only 10 mins a job. But when you multiply that by almost 100 jobs (with color changes) its over whelming. Here is a question: how long would you have told them this would take???we have printed as many as 30 of those in a day. So there's solid two days worth of work. Adding it to other work, we'd probably tell them about 10 days (to make sure we get all the art and garments ready).but, that was with six ppl. . . .pierreI think your about right. I have about 15 hours in art and cleanup (including film output) I have 15 hours in sorting before printing. With my work load (its just nuts here) Its going to take 2.5 to 3 weeks from the day I got the last of the shirts in. That includes sorting after printed and boxing. Not sure I would want one of these again.
I think the key is to not give a discount based on the total volume and treat it like 50 different customers with 24 pc orders. If your pricing structure is good then it should just represent a good weeks (or two) worth of work.