print runs

[Geneva Olson]

just curious. what's the longest print runs you guys have? with plotting and without plotting.

 

[balstestrat]

Full rolls?

 

[Geneva Olson]

Full rolls?

seriously? i have so much respect. i run 200-300-400 inches...but not whole roles. some day i'll grow up and be like you! LOL

 

[balstestrat]

Obviously I'm not a print shop but it's not uncommon I walk into a shop running roll after roll after roll etc. Goes pretty fast when you do loads of wraps or wallpapers etc.
But I guess even I can say I sometimes print a full roll to test it...

 

[Boudica]

If it's going to be laminated, I will keep it to about 50'. If the print is tight, 25'.

 

[victor bogdanov]

Full rolls printed then goes into Graphtec and whole roll gets cut with the automatic barcodes

 

[ikarasu]

100 yard rolls! Super heavy, but we were doing tons of wraps and I got left swapping out 50 yard rolls so I bought a few 100 yard rolls. It wasn't worth it.... Mike my back loading and unloading and then loading into the laminator...

For putting and cut we keep the cut panels at 15 ft Mac length, but still print full rolls with when cutting.

 

[Pauly]

In a day, or largest single customer order?

longest day print run would have been around 600m / 12 rolls.
longest single order print run would have been around 2500m / 50 rolls
and all finished on the fotoba.

 

[BVG]

In a day, or largest single customer order?

longest day print run would have been around 600m / 12 rolls.
longest single order print run would have been around 2500m / 50 rolls
and all finished on the fotoba.

Bet you were thankful for the Colorado print speed on those.

 

[YNOT_TONY]

Often run two up rolls on the Latex 1500, changing out every 3 hours then run 2 more rolls. Last fall I ran 10,000 sqft of supplied carpet over a weekend on my HP FB750 flatbed.

 

[garyroy]

Pauly, that Fotoba must be a beast!

 

[CanuckSigns]

we run full roles on a regular basis, we then cut on our summa flatbed, however I make sure each "section" is no longer than 20', but with the barcodes it just keeps going.

 

[Elwood "Woody" Smith]

My largest large format roll job was 26 - 54"x 164' rolls of vinyl + laminate decals for one job. On the flatbed have run several pallets of material for larger jobs.

 

[Pauly]

Bet you were thankful for the Colorado print speed on those.

100%
We where 3 months into the Colorado at the time.

Pauly, that Fotoba must be a beast!

Absolutely. We’ve got the high speed version, so for that job it was cutting each roll In to posters with in 10 minutes each.

 

[Stacey K]

So far for me 10' LOL

 

[citysignshop]

So far for me 10' LOL

Ummm, yeah, not able to print/cut or laminate anything more than about 10'....things just don't track well enough...but in fact, most of my jobs are small wraps or 4'x8' type signage, so I've never had the NEED to address these issues. Roland Vs-540 won't print /cut well at all....my Royal Sovereign 54" laminator was fine for about 10 years of VERY light use, now doesn't track worth beans. Tired of troubleshooting all this BS, just use it, and dream of hand-lettering back in '85!

 

[GaSouthpaw]

I mean, I've printed jobs that required 300+ rolls of media (plus 300+ of laminate), so... it's all relative. As far as size for a single job, murals that used 3 rolls of media. Print/cut items, we always tried to keep sections under 20' because the guy who laminated stuff wouldn't always keep the tension even on the laminator and the media would start to skew when plotting- particularly with heavy materials (reflectives, etc.).

 

[Geneva Olson]

Often run two up rolls on the Latex 1500, changing out every 3 hours then run 2 more rolls. Last fall I ran 10,000 sqft of supplied carpet over a weekend on my HP FB750 flatbed.

what was on the carpet?

 

[Geneva Olson]

I mean, I've printed jobs that required 300+ rolls of media (plus 300+ of laminate), so... it's all relative. As far as size for a single job, murals that used 3 rolls of media. Print/cut items, we always tried to keep sections under 20' because the guy who laminated stuff wouldn't always keep the tension even on the laminator and the media would start to skew when plotting- particularly with heavy materials (reflectives, etc.).

I don't have a take up reel. I guess I need to get one!

 

[BigNate]

... a decade+ ago my employer got the job to make 4 million credit card sized coupons for a major sub sandwich company. had a big "Q" and lots of green and red. it all ran on a 40" press - took over a week to cut apart in 12 hour shifts on the guillotine.