Starting Friday we have 400 dozen peices coming by freight. All white tees-I hope- 4 color fronts,
1 color backs, 2 designs.
We're gonna open up our new auto press for the first time doing such a long run. This is gonna be fun! Can't wait to see how fast we can actually print on this thing!
We've been doing short runs, 50 pcs, 72pcs, 200pcs, etc., but no long runs and no hour or two continuos printing stretches. So I don't know what we're capable of yet.
I'm shooting for 360pcs/hr- WIDE OPEN!
I'll keep you posted on this odyssey.
Wow, that is amazing. Who orders that many t-shirts? Unless it's like for an Orginization or a t-shirt give away at a HUGE event.
When I lived in Montana...there were less than 30,000 people that lived in the whole town. And that included women, children and I think even pets..haha
__________________ Insanity is when you keep on doing the same things, hoping for different results.
The thing you've got to realize when handling a job that big is the logistics.
When does shipment arrive? Where to stack them. How many cases of each color? Organize heavy cases of shirts. On and on....
We got our freight in today- a day early.
Glad they got here early, so we can start first thing in the morning.
Problem is there is no artwork yet.
I wanted to get a jump on the backs and get our timing and method down.
But we cant move yet.
Got screens cleaned and boxes seperated and stacked and counted.
We operate as 2 man unit with one floater/troubleshooter.
5000 pcs stacked on your shop floor can make you intimidated.
pricing was tough, we had to bid on the order, and we just order some here and there, we dont have the storage for all of them at one time.
Have you talked with your vendor about blanket pricing? With that kind of quantity I'm sure you could deal direct with the manufacturer, lock in pricing for the full quantity and stagger the deliveries to a set schedule. You've probably already talked about this, but just in case...
I kinda know a guy who does 150k + runs somewhat regularly. I haven't been to his shop, but my buddy said it's floor to ceiling cases and has an ocean container full of shirts outside. I'm guessing that they come straight from the mfgr.
one changeover, took too LONG.
Did 400 backs and 1300 fronts today.
About the same production as yesterday- 1700pcs/10 hr shift.
We should be at 2400/ day.
The stop and go is killing us!
Take a note- DO NOT USE 230 MESH WITH BIG SPOT COLORS!!!
I had to use 2 strokes on the colors to get them opaque.
The back of this shirt used almost 4 gallons of genesis black in one day.
That was on a 110 mesh and a pretty big image area. Sucked ink like exxon gas.
So I burned the bottom colors on 230 mesh to save on ink- backfired.
Full throttle 
