Seeing the amount of production you are capable of with your space vs the retail "walk ins" 8-6 M-F Design / Print / Plans Exchange service I've been within for last 10 years is astounding. Thanks for the inspiring and informational content here. It is insane how much you remind me of the original owner of the shop I work at ha. Dopplegager status. Much love from HD+P here in Montana, USA. 🤘🛸🖖🇺🇲
You need both..... Having been in the industry for 40 years plus now for a small company I recommend a zund and a UV for the flat bed.. It's also a matter of room you need a fair amount.
Great information. I have a question for sales people do do just commission with percentage or do you give a hourly and commission? I’m. Looking to hire and would like your opinion. Thank you in advance
Have you ever thought of a pneumatic heat press? Where i work we use only transmatic pneumatic presses with 2 platens and for a 1 placement job we can do around 150 shirts an hour. It's so much faster than anything else and have a pretty small footprint
We really like the Summa S2 Tangential cutter. It's quick and does a good job. It has a few quirks like most equipment but overall we like it. Daron - have you moved to in-house DTF production or are you still using a third party?
I'm using TTtransfers.com - I don't want to add another machine to maintain right now. And the cost savings is not enough to outweigh another employee to run it.
I have a mix. Most have a base and a timeline they need to hit a certain sales level. If they don't, a base reduction or a parting of ways will happen.
Seeing the amount of production you are capable of with your space vs the retail "walk ins" 8-6 M-F Design / Print / Plans Exchange service I've been within for last 10 years is astounding. Thanks for the inspiring and informational content here. It is insane how much you remind me of the original owner of the shop I work at ha. Dopplegager status. Much love from HD+P here in Montana, USA. 🤘🛸🖖🇺🇲
Summa tangential cutter is awesome - We had three of them running wall decals & Stickers. Made easy work of them
I plan on taking a closer look while at Printing United.
Just got a new job in printing, If i lived in usa I would approach you for a job. Seems like a great place to work.
We try to have fun.
You need both..... Having been in the industry for 40 years plus now for a small company I recommend a zund and a UV for the flat bed.. It's also a matter of room you need a fair amount.
Great information. I have a question for sales people do do just commission with percentage or do you give a hourly and commission? I’m. Looking to hire and would like your opinion. Thank you in advance
This would make a great video
Yes it will. I was looking in the comments to find this out.
Whats the brand of your application table./ Size? Where did you get it? Cost? Love your videos.
See this video -
ua-cam.com/video/jL4ji9xdCaI/v-deo.html
Have you ever thought of a pneumatic heat press? Where i work we use only transmatic pneumatic presses with 2 platens and for a 1 placement job we can do around 150 shirts an hour. It's so much faster than anything else and have a pretty small footprint
Great point. I recently purchased a two platen pneumatic press from Geo Knight. As an owner/operator I think it is worth every penny.
I'll be ordering one some time this month.
We really like the Summa S2 Tangential cutter. It's quick and does a good job. It has a few quirks like most equipment but overall we like it.
Daron - have you moved to in-house DTF production or are you still using a third party?
I'm using TTtransfers.com - I don't want to add another machine to maintain right now. And the cost savings is not enough to outweigh another employee to run it.
Are you using the Wilcombe software? They actually have one that’ll do an estimation of stitch count based off of vectors or PNG’s
I outsource all our digitizing.
Printing white on my hp 700w is easy…… prepping the file from Flexi is comically bad. I have to re learn the process and quirks every time.
How do you keep your warehouse area cool? Does it have AC?
We have 3 mini splits.
For tumbler automation... Would data merge in InDesign or something similar to PDF help that workflow?
If I also wrote something to automatically load the files. Which I need to do regardless but haven't taken the time to do.
Do your sales people work on 100% commission, or do you also pay them a salary?
I have a mix. Most have a base and a timeline they need to hit a certain sales level. If they don't, a base reduction or a parting of ways will happen.
Hey brother, where did you get the application table?
See this video ua-cam.com/video/jL4ji9xdCaI/v-deo.html
You would have to claw my flatbed printer out of my cold dead hands! A cutter would be nice though.
I happily sold mine. You also have way more space than me.
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How much does each salesman average in sales per year for you?
We just finalized their monthly goal, but I haven't had any long enough to cover a year's time yet.
Time for me to buy a new building. lol
Me too
suumma flat bed is expensive.
Depends on how you look at it.