[Human Zamboni]

I am re-posting this where I meant to in the first place. Sorry, it was my first post.

Hope I'm not in trouble for being from America and trolling the Asia section... ) I have a six platen table line press that I built from this site, and love it. I am more into the design side of t-shirts rather than the mass production side, making runs of around 8 to 10 shirts basically to see how the design looks and let a few friends wear to get feedback. I would like to up my printing to maybe runs of 50 or so. Since it is just me in my basement, I am thinking of going to the system where each shirt has it's own platen, so I can load up 50 shirts or so at a time. I print mostly single colors in water based inks so time can be an issue. What are the platens made from and what are the typical dimensions? Is 1/4" plywood or chipboard sufficient? Anything I should know about this type of setup? I do prefer a push stroke so hopefully that will still work. Any feedback, direction, dimensions, materials, plans, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your time.

 

[CHRISLOPS]

sir some printers uses 1/4 thick plywood without registrations. as long as it is coated with table adhesive..forgive my english... 1/4 thick is ok as long its flat..

 

[Human Zamboni]

Thank you for the reply and your english is great! I'm just trying to figure a way so that I'm not constantly loading shirts as I am by myself. I figured if I could line up 25 shirts or so at once and print them it would be more efficient. I suppose the only negative is that I couldn't do two color prints just eyeballing.