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Ok, On average how long would it take to set-up for a job with a typical 4 color silk screen printer?
Saying that the designs you had were already burned & ready to go & you kept the frames stored, and were doing anywhere from one color to 3 or 4 color designs with fairly simple artwork?
My plan is to buy a silk screen printing press ( probably a 4color 1station printer) with or possibly without micro-registration, and do shirts as customers order them... I understand that this would be a time inefficeint way to do this type of printing considering the fact that a heat press would be much faster for one off jobs...
However, I feel that the quality of silk screening is better than heat press ( opinion only, I just like the look & feel of silk screened stuff opposed to heat pressed ones)... Plus, I think that filling orders on a as needed basis would quicken my learning rate at becoming a good printer due to the fact that I would be setting up & taking down different jobs all the time....
I know it is the most time consuming way to do it like this, but I plan to make shirts in my free time, for myself , family, & friends at first until I get good at it & if I get too many orders that I cant fill, then I will outsource some of them to a shop.....
But I was wondering how long it takes to set-up for a run if you already have the frames ready & was going to be using a 4 color press with one station... And with or without micro-registration....
5 minutes??? 20 minutes???
Even just a ball park figure would help tremendously...
Saying that the designs you had were already burned & ready to go & you kept the frames stored, and were doing anywhere from one color to 3 or 4 color designs with fairly simple artwork?
My plan is to buy a silk screen printing press ( probably a 4color 1station printer) with or possibly without micro-registration, and do shirts as customers order them... I understand that this would be a time inefficeint way to do this type of printing considering the fact that a heat press would be much faster for one off jobs...
However, I feel that the quality of silk screening is better than heat press ( opinion only, I just like the look & feel of silk screened stuff opposed to heat pressed ones)... Plus, I think that filling orders on a as needed basis would quicken my learning rate at becoming a good printer due to the fact that I would be setting up & taking down different jobs all the time....
I know it is the most time consuming way to do it like this, but I plan to make shirts in my free time, for myself , family, & friends at first until I get good at it & if I get too many orders that I cant fill, then I will outsource some of them to a shop.....
But I was wondering how long it takes to set-up for a run if you already have the frames ready & was going to be using a 4 color press with one station... And with or without micro-registration....
5 minutes??? 20 minutes???
Even just a ball park figure would help tremendously...