Tattoosleeve
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Curious what measures everybody takes to maintain a clean print/production environment? What tools, equipment and procedures to you follow to try and prevent contaminates ending up in a print/sign?
We're moving to a new shop in roughly 6 weeks and one of the things I want to do is control contaminates in our print/production environment more. In our current shop the production and print area is right in the middle of the shop. Bay is at the back, washroom is at the back, sales and design area in the front. Lots gets tracked through the room because there is simply no way around it. The new shop is set up with sales/design area in the center with the print and production room to one side of the building and the bays are on the opposite side of the building so that will already make a big difference.
The new print/production room is 38'x45' and will include solvent printer S60600, flatbed printer(FB550) and finishing table (Esko X24), graphtec FC8000, Summa D Series, Edge FX, Envision cutter, 64" laminator (x2) one for laminating one for mounting. The Esko table will be curtained off from the rest of the room with clear industrial curtains. They will be 8' tall but the ceiling goes to 16' so the top 8' above the table is exposed to the rest of the room. We will be installing (x2) air filtration units that will cycle the air in the room every 23minutes on the low setting. One will be directly above the Esko and the 2nd will be in the corner over by the printers to try and pull as much out of those areas as possible.
The plan to maintain a clean work area is to sweep and/or vacuum daily, particularly around the printers, clean laminator as needed (rollers, surfaces). Wipe down equipment once a week to keep free of dust build up. Use tack cloths and those gummy rollers when laminating/mounting.
The idea was thrown out to have an "inside shoe only" policy in the production room. Is that overkill?
Thanks in advance for any feedback
We're moving to a new shop in roughly 6 weeks and one of the things I want to do is control contaminates in our print/production environment more. In our current shop the production and print area is right in the middle of the shop. Bay is at the back, washroom is at the back, sales and design area in the front. Lots gets tracked through the room because there is simply no way around it. The new shop is set up with sales/design area in the center with the print and production room to one side of the building and the bays are on the opposite side of the building so that will already make a big difference.
The new print/production room is 38'x45' and will include solvent printer S60600, flatbed printer(FB550) and finishing table (Esko X24), graphtec FC8000, Summa D Series, Edge FX, Envision cutter, 64" laminator (x2) one for laminating one for mounting. The Esko table will be curtained off from the rest of the room with clear industrial curtains. They will be 8' tall but the ceiling goes to 16' so the top 8' above the table is exposed to the rest of the room. We will be installing (x2) air filtration units that will cycle the air in the room every 23minutes on the low setting. One will be directly above the Esko and the 2nd will be in the corner over by the printers to try and pull as much out of those areas as possible.
The plan to maintain a clean work area is to sweep and/or vacuum daily, particularly around the printers, clean laminator as needed (rollers, surfaces). Wipe down equipment once a week to keep free of dust build up. Use tack cloths and those gummy rollers when laminating/mounting.
The idea was thrown out to have an "inside shoe only" policy in the production room. Is that overkill?
Thanks in advance for any feedback
