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corel4signs
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Morning Folks,
How many of you offer screen printing in house? Please let me know
Thanx
Lars
How many of you offer screen printing in house? Please let me know
Thanx
Lars
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cleanmywound
New Member
we do. along with heat transfer. we sub out for DTG, found someone close that does dtg out of their home.
Air Art Girl
New Member
sold all the screen printing equipment long ago. It's very labor intensive. Easier to outsource for us.
Bill Modzel
New Member
It's more like we offer signs in our screen printing shop.
We started out as a flatstock screen shop in 1980. Never have done the t-shirt route
and never have regretted that decision.
Back than is was hand brushed or screen printed. The only vinyl was white and we printed on it.
We added a Mac and a Graphtec in 89 and an Edge in 98. Also went digital with an HP5000 and now a HP9000s.
Our ratio of digital to screen printing has certainly changed over the years but when it comes to speed there's still nothing to compete with a screen press if the quantities justify the setup.
We printed just under 10K yardsigns for local elections last year.
We do a fair amount of "industrial" printing also like aluminum control panels that have to be screen printed. Right now were doing 210 "boxes" about 15x15x16 for a POP CD display unit. 4 sides, two colors on wood grained chipboard. Some things there's just no other way to print.
We started out as a flatstock screen shop in 1980. Never have done the t-shirt route
and never have regretted that decision.
Back than is was hand brushed or screen printed. The only vinyl was white and we printed on it.
We added a Mac and a Graphtec in 89 and an Edge in 98. Also went digital with an HP5000 and now a HP9000s.
Our ratio of digital to screen printing has certainly changed over the years but when it comes to speed there's still nothing to compete with a screen press if the quantities justify the setup.
We printed just under 10K yardsigns for local elections last year.
We do a fair amount of "industrial" printing also like aluminum control panels that have to be screen printed. Right now were doing 210 "boxes" about 15x15x16 for a POP CD display unit. 4 sides, two colors on wood grained chipboard. Some things there's just no other way to print.
anthony smith
New Member
We print shirts caps signs you name it
use a 6 color M&R sportsman can set up as fast
as a manual
will do as little as 24 pieces and can do 6 to 8 of those kind of orders
in a day no problem with 1 man
no body really going after that size order here so price not so much
a issue as in the larger oders can make more on 10 24 piece orders than
2 240 piece orders just have to keep it simple 1 to 2 color for the smaller
orders
use a 6 color M&R sportsman can set up as fast
as a manual
will do as little as 24 pieces and can do 6 to 8 of those kind of orders
in a day no problem with 1 man
no body really going after that size order here so price not so much
a issue as in the larger oders can make more on 10 24 piece orders than
2 240 piece orders just have to keep it simple 1 to 2 color for the smaller
orders
SignManiac
New Member
All digital here. Roland for solvent printing, HP Scitex for UV curable rigid media and some roll to roll, DTG for garments along with some sublimation. Have often toyed with the idea of screen printing garments but just not feeling the vibe to make the leap.
WhiskeyDreamer
Professional Snow Ninja
six color screen press, heat press, hat press, dtg...all in house
We have a 10 platten, 8 station, 6 color auto and a 4 color manual and a 6 color hat press (that we rarely use) and a numbering machine.
We also have a couple of small format offset presses along with a lot of bindery equipment.
Like someone else said, to us it is like we offer advertising specialties (1 year) and signs (3 years) and screen printing (4 years) in our offset shop (20 years).
But offset is a shrinking industry and I find that we are farming out more offset every month.
We also have a couple of small format offset presses along with a lot of bindery equipment.
Like someone else said, to us it is like we offer advertising specialties (1 year) and signs (3 years) and screen printing (4 years) in our offset shop (20 years).
But offset is a shrinking industry and I find that we are farming out more offset every month.