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Hey I enjoy your video's, unfortunately due to a busy life I don't get to watch them as often as I would like. I'm a screen printer by trade. Learned screen printing in the 80's. Not garment, mainly industrial although I did some garment work down through the years. Worked a bit in California in the 90's, got into IT in the Noughties and kinda drifted into and out of printing for a few years before I decided printing was no longer a good career for me. It's a bit physical for a guy on the wrong side of 50, punching buttons is a bit easier. Anyway, you've got a great focus on cleanliness and tidiness which is great. You are using some visual organisation such as the embroidery tools in the foam 'shadow-board' cut out. Ink organisation is also critical from the standpoint of finding what you need quickly & time is money. Can I make a suggestion? You are not registering your press correctly. All your registration needs to be done off-press. There are a few variations of this. Pins on screens to snap your screen positives onto and then your screens go into pins on the press. basically your screens are registered when they are snapped onto the press. Trying to train up guys to use screen registration knobs in this day and age when you are in competition with fast DTG presses is crazy. Press set-up times needs to be a few minutes. Snap the screens in, do a test print & go. No twiddling knobs. Google it. The other thing I wanted to talk to you about is space. You simply don't have enough. Even though there is a great vibe in your shop I couldn't work there. There is no space, I would get claustrophobia. You've got to find someone who owns a big building and convince him/her to rent it to you at low rent or offer them a share of your business to lock in more space. You are being smothered. The last thing I will suggest is quite old Skool. I watched in interest as you reeled off the jobs for the day and their various levels of urgency. Your guys aren't on the same wavelength as you man. They can't retain all this information. As you get busier, you can't expect them to keep up with you and absorb everything you say during your 5 minute morning production meeting. Apart from that, shit changes and the plan needs to be adaptable. You need a production board. A visual map of every job in your shop, where it is at and what inputs are required. This is critical. Everyone should be able to walk in, look at the board and see what's in process, where it is at and what remaining processes are required to get out out the door. Anyway man I look forward to checking in with you again at some point. I'm really happy you put in a special effort to try and save that beetle. That demonstrates you are a person with real empathy.
I always get on RU-vid waiting for another video!! Love everything you do and how you do it, I’ve already printed my labels for my cleaner spray bottles
At my old shop we had the same dilemma. To realistically have an auto and a manual press going you're almost need 2 complete lines ie dryers, staff, space and enough work to run both lines. Till then the manual just takes up alot of valuable floor space.
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To keep Ed, have you considered a day care "TYPE" of situation. Something catered and customized possibly? I'm trying to throw out a fix. Seems you really enjoyed him and vice versa. ❤
Appreciate this video. I am afforded an opportunity to buy a whole screen printing set up from a school who discontinued the class. I will be getting it for a fraction of the cost new. I also found a location I could set shop up in. I am just worried about the learning curve as well as running out of money during start up without closing enough deals. Your video was extremely motivating as well as informational. Thank you!
wonder if you will look into figuring out how to clean it better or if you will figure out a better tool and way to clean it. anyway fun to see you test out products and not want to chuck them into the garbage. keep up the fun cheers.
Hahahaha fuck eh… it actually worked 😂😂😂. Well a guy will have to pick one up now, my mind especially went to less wear and tare on your press as well. If you’re only doing 1 stroke compared to 2 that’s half the work for your equipment. We print so much 1 colour white prints it’s Fucking bonkers. I’ll be getting one for our “base” and top whites 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻 appreciate the video brother.
