Curing DTG Inks – Use silicone paper compared with Teflon sheets in DTG curing to get better wash fastness and less of a gloss.
Quick Tip August 29th, 2014 by Terry Combs
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Saving Money on Sublimation Ink – Don’t let the initial investment or the words wide format deter you from taking a good hard look at jumping in and saving yourself some real money. If you do the math on the sublimation ink options available in the US, you will see the small format desktop printers cost about $2,100 a liter for the ink, while the mid size 24 and 36” printers cost about $460 per liter. Those are some pretty big numbers compared to the $115 a liter for wide format printers. It doesn’t take much ink to make up for the difference on initial investment, so make sure you really look at the wide format option before investing in your next sublimation printer.
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Exposure Calculator An exposure calculator is basically a film positive that comes with five or more identical images including fine lines and dots. Using our best guess starting point exposure times, we double that time and expose the film onto a screen, and wash out as normal. After the screen is complete, hold it up to a light and compare the different images. The one that is exposed the best, where the image looks the most crisp, is our target. A formula under that image will tell us our ideal exposure time.
Exposure calculators are available from all emulsion manufacturers and your local supplier might give you this exposure film for free.
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The Four Day Workweek – On my own production floor, the four consecutive 10-hour day workweek has been a success. And the employees love having a three day weekend. With this schedule you save one day of starting up and shutting down production. Instead, that saved time translates to more productivity. And that translates to another step on the road to doubling your production.
Another plus with the four day workweek is the availability of an entire day (Friday) for overtime work when necessary. Having a crew for a half or full day of overtime on a Friday is tremendously easier to pull off than arranging overtime for Saturday. All this overtime work is accomplished while employees’ friends and family are at their own jobs or school. And the staff still has a traditional two day weekend ahead.
For the front office, the fifth day with no production staff allows them to get things done without questions and issues from the production floor. It’s the perfect opportunity to work on projects and long term planning, or to just get caught up or ahead of the game.
If management squirms about the idea of shutting off the lights in production on Friday, it’s usually because they’re afraid some last minute rush order won’t get done. The easy solution is to have one all around versatile employee work on Friday to take care of any out of the ordinary order or issue, while in reality this employee is just there to make other managers feel better. Before long, everyone will discover that this one Friday employee-in-reserve will be unnecessary.
