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Old May 20th, 2008 -   #20 (permalink)
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Default Re: Your printing speeds with manual press?

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Originally Posted by out da box
Why can't you go fast and have quality? I would hold any one of my tees against anyone's and I'll tell you that my quality is excellent. Everybody screws up, granted. You make mistakes when rushing.
But when your art is right, your screens are right, your press is tight and registered and you're set, then get it on get it down and get it off, that's how we run em.
Time is money, we print a lot of shirts and it's ALWAYS a rush order. We grind hard.
I'm paid to be a efficient as possible AND still have excellent quality.
True dont sacrifice quality for speed, but don't sacrifice speed for incompetence.
Keep it spinnin'- 1700 pcs today.
I don't care to get into an argument over who's better and who's faster. But the simple fact is that as your speed increases, your quality goes down. Say what you want, but that's reality. If you print 150/hr and I'm printing 100/hr, everything else being equal, I guarantee you that I will have better quality shirts. Now at 150/hr, your shirts may have "acceptable quality" to you, and may not be acceptable to me. It's all objective.

I'm curious, are your shirts lint free? Do you never get any pin holes in your prints from a piece of lint on the shirt? Because there is no way you can repair the lint holes and remove the lint from the screen and still do 150/hr. Or do you use a lint roller before you put each shirt on?