Screen Printing T Shirts on a M & R Diamondback automatic carousel

[BulkShirts]

Great Video, sending it to my customers for a quick education on the carosel!

[tonyde61]

It can of course run much faster than 300 with two operators.

There is a difference with the speed it runs per hour and the amount you run per hour.

It's like a car, you can drive at 70 mph on a motorway but you have roadworks, slow drivers, large vehicles that at times can reduce you to maybe 40 mph so the average drops all the time!

Adding ink can slow it down, shirts loading can be hindered occasionally with some of the shirts having loose thread or creases.

[user24Jerricho]

damn thats a slow machine, should be running at around 500ph. and yes 300 is too slow or are you running it slow cos you have only a single operator? shouldn't need to be running a flash cure on white eather. I would run the ink through a 90 or 100 to increase stroke speeds with much less angle on the squeegy to limit deposit, but as of yet I have not had any exp on a M & R , i'll be taking 1 for a test drive this saterday morning. I wonder if it is a noisy machine or quiet?

[tonyde61]

The speed that the machine runs at depends on the print job and the operators. It can quite easily be run at 300 shirts per hour, which is not too slow!

A one colour print with no need to flash cure can run as fast as you can load and take off.

As for the other question, how does the machine receive it's direction!

Well this is down to the skilled operator, position of print, registration is all driven by good artwork and repro work and the expertise of the guy running the machine.

[macman216]

wow its cool but damn slow

[olsoncor]

How does the machine receieve its direction and know what type of a design to print? are their manual templates? or can it receive digital instruction?

[obzelite]

@olsoncor i think you might be a tad confused, this is not a digital direct to garment printer, its traditional screenprinting with an automated machine. designs are put into the screens, the screen are loaded, ink is added and away it goes printing. you just load the shirts and make sure it has enough ink. thats the simple version. i missed multi colour alignment of the screen etc etc.

[fretduster03]

damn this machine is a beast.

[LowNKum]

@fretduster03

nah, there's this one that M & R has that I saw at the last Screen printing convention in Long Beach CA, it's got a GANG of print heads! That thing took up more than half the display areas it was so HUGE!