I always laugh a little when you say "My shop is small". I look at the pile of boxes and wish I had that much space. 😆 I guess you just gotta think big.
I always get on RUclips waiting for another video!! Love everything you do and how you do it, I’ve already printed my labels for my cleaner spray bottles
At my old shop we had the same dilemma. To realistically have an auto and a manual press going you're almost need 2 complete lines ie dryers, staff, space and enough work to run both lines. Till then the manual just takes up alot of valuable floor space.
Hey I enjoy your video's, unfortunately due to a busy life I don't get to watch them as often as I would like. I'm a screen printer by trade. Learned screen printing in the 80's. Not garment, mainly industrial although I did some garment work down through the years. Worked a bit in California in the 90's, got into IT in the Noughties and kinda drifted into and out of printing for a few years before I decided printing was no longer a good career for me. It's a bit physical for a guy on the wrong side of 50, punching buttons is a bit easier. Anyway, you've got a great focus on cleanliness and tidiness which is great. You are using some visual organisation such as the embroidery tools in the foam 'shadow-board' cut out. Ink organisation is also critical from the standpoint of finding what you need quickly & time is money. Can I make a suggestion? You are not registering your press correctly. All your registration needs to be done off-press. There are a few variations of this. Pins on screens to snap your screen positives onto and then your screens go into pins on the press. basically your screens are registered when they are snapped onto the press. Trying to train up guys to use screen registration knobs in this day and age when you are in competition with fast DTG presses is crazy. Press set-up times needs to be a few minutes. Snap the screens in, do a test print & go. No twiddling knobs. Google it. The other thing I wanted to talk to you about is space. You simply don't have enough. Even though there is a great vibe in your shop I couldn't work there. There is no space, I would get claustrophobia. You've got to find someone who owns a big building and convince him/her to rent it to you at low rent or offer them a share of your business to lock in more space. You are being smothered. The last thing I will suggest is quite old Skool. I watched in interest as you reeled off the jobs for the day and their various levels of urgency. Your guys aren't on the same wavelength as you man. They can't retain all this information. As you get busier, you can't expect them to keep up with you and absorb everything you say during your 5 minute morning production meeting. Apart from that, shit changes and the plan needs to be adaptable. You need a production board. A visual map of every job in your shop, where it is at and what inputs are required. This is critical. Everyone should be able to walk in, look at the board and see what's in process, where it is at and what remaining processes are required to get out out the door. Anyway man I look forward to checking in with you again at some point. I'm really happy you put in a special effort to try and save that beetle. That demonstrates you are a person with real empathy.
Gary is a champion.
Fighting for his life for who knows how many days.
A new Rouge Lab T-Shirt is needed with an awesome beetle graphic.
That's actually a great idea 😂
I always laugh a little when you say "My shop is small". I look at the pile of boxes and wish I had that much space. 😆 I guess you just gotta think big.
It's 1250sf so it is pretty small for what I'm packing in here, but I'm definitely thinking much bigger
Thank you for choosing mercy. ❤😊
Gary deserved a chance
@@leestuart38 he sure did.
I always get on RUclips waiting for another video!! Love everything you do and how you do it, I’ve already printed my labels for my cleaner spray bottles
Hell ya! Those little changes add up
At my old shop we had the same dilemma. To realistically have an auto and a manual press going you're almost need 2 complete lines ie dryers, staff, space and enough work to run both lines. Till then the manual just takes up alot of valuable floor space.
I totally agree. While it would be nice to keep it, it just isn't practical in the small amount of space that I have.
You guys used yo work 4 days a week?! Damn!
Makes me want to travel all the way from Mexico to Canada.😂
No womder why we, dirty mexicans, are taking all the jobs 😂
Love your videos man. I started watching sinse you got your manual prpess ❤
It worked well for us for a while but then we got too busy
What's up with the double squeegee you used for the white ink? Need that!
If you could put that press in the background of your live podcast setup, that would be sick.
Your custom press on your screen printing podcast.
Stevie Wonder Registration HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH............ DUDE. That must be on a Shirt sometime.
A good meme at the very least
@@leestuart38 ow for sure, already have something in mind.😉
Every Friday.. 😮💯
Which software solution do you use for your shop? DecoNetwork, Printavo etc. 😊
I'm using YoPrint. There's a link and a discount code for it in the video description if you want to check it out 🤘🏻
Hey I enjoy your video's, unfortunately due to a busy life I don't get to watch them as often as I would like. I'm a screen printer by trade. Learned screen printing in the 80's. Not garment, mainly industrial although I did some garment work down through the years. Worked a bit in California in the 90's, got into IT in the Noughties and kinda drifted into and out of printing for a few years before I decided printing was no longer a good career for me. It's a bit physical for a guy on the wrong side of 50, punching buttons is a bit easier. Anyway, you've got a great focus on cleanliness and tidiness which is great. You are using some visual organisation such as the embroidery tools in the foam 'shadow-board' cut out. Ink organisation is also critical from the standpoint of finding what you need quickly & time is money. Can I make a suggestion? You are not registering your press correctly. All your registration needs to be done off-press. There are a few variations of this. Pins on screens to snap your screen positives onto and then your screens go into pins on the press. basically your screens are registered when they are snapped onto the press. Trying to train up guys to use screen registration knobs in this day and age when you are in competition with fast DTG presses is crazy. Press set-up times needs to be a few minutes. Snap the screens in, do a test print & go. No twiddling knobs. Google it. The other thing I wanted to talk to you about is space. You simply don't have enough. Even though there is a great vibe in your shop I couldn't work there. There is no space, I would get claustrophobia. You've got to find someone who owns a big building and convince him/her to rent it to you at low rent or offer them a share of your business to lock in more space. You are being smothered. The last thing I will suggest is quite old Skool. I watched in interest as you reeled off the jobs for the day and their various levels of urgency. Your guys aren't on the same wavelength as you man. They can't retain all this information. As you get busier, you can't expect them to keep up with you and absorb everything you say during your 5 minute morning production meeting. Apart from that, shit changes and the plan needs to be adaptable. You need a production board. A visual map of every job in your shop, where it is at and what inputs are required. This is critical. Everyone should be able to walk in, look at the board and see what's in process, where it is at and what remaining processes are required to get out out the door. Anyway man I look forward to checking in with you again at some point. I'm really happy you put in a special effort to try and save that beetle. That demonstrates you are a person with real empathy.
My address for shipping that manual is……
😂😂😂
😂😂great content. Sad to see it go
It'll be back 🤘🏻
dejo buenos recuerdos
You are still our hero
we going to miss you Savvy at the shop
@8:49 "When we move into the new shop..." Something you want to tell us!?!?
All in due time 🙃
😢 No no no not you too
Had to happen 🤷🏻♂️
@leestuart38 I love how you are doing your shop more stronger 💪 I love it!
Ghostbuster hell yea!!! :D
Who you gonna call? 👻
new shop!!!???
Thats the current trajectory 🎯
Lmfao😂 Fucking ya Gary. 🤘🏻
that stevie wonder reg mark .
Dammmmm
Can I have it 😂
Raffle it
It's staying with me
Did you say, move to a new shop?😮
Maybe 🤔
@@leestuart38 well good luck to you
The wet on wet 👌
🏴☠🏴☠🏴☠
F 🫡
Who makes that green sweatshirt?