[sudoroom] Glass and Screen Printing

[Max Klein]

To comment on the original thread, and no the digression, are you imagining
cut vinyl for the hexagonal window? I volunteered to coordinate signage and
I took a look at the blue awnings last night. There is some room on the
semicircular over-entrace which is vertical. Also There is more canvas
space on the tops of the awnings which can't be seen if standing on the
same side of the street. But are easily visible from the other side of the
street.
In either case I was imagining cut vinyl for both the exterior sign and
your interior decoration. I think Ace Monster Toys has a vinyl cutter.
Otherwise do you know another place to cut vinyl, or were you thinking of a
different material?

Max


On 15 November 2012 02:21, Daniel Finlay <somniac at me.com> wrote:

> When the process is streamlined and staffed, the shop can print up to a
> four-color shirt every 30 seconds.
>
> The equipment would pretty much fill one of those rooms, for the various
> phases of the process, but I already own it all, and soon may not have a
> place to keep it.
>
> The shop isn't currently a full-time job for me, but I've never actively
> pursued clients, just word of mouth.  I'm not sure if the shop would be a
> better resource if it already had full-time work coming through it, or if I
> kept it open to people to bring their own work.  I guess supplying enough
> client work that members could work for money, and in turn bring down the
> hourly cost for the whole organization.
>
> Maybe I should ask that guy who works on the same floor, who came to
> tonight's meeting to help get clients.  Does anyone have his contact info?
>  He said growing businesses is what he did.  If he could bring enough
> clients in to keep the shop paying for itself, then it could become a
> community resource the rest of the time.  I'd be open to excessive revenue
> being used to pay for more hack-space, particularly if I didn't have to be
> constantly supervising the space, and could simply rent it like anyone else.
>
> I was imagining free workshops on Saturday to gain membership.  Proper
> maintaining of the shop would keep membership, etc...
>
> What I need most right now is perspective, although if I were to make the
> move I might consider a kickstarter to help hold the doors open while we
> found our sea-legs.  Do enough people want to print their own ware, or need
> the work?  Could a flexibly-scheduled workspace be more efficient than a
> centrally owned one?  Would this be too big of a liability to be feasible?
>  Are there ways to make a space usable by lots of different people?
>
> These are interesting questions, I'm going to sleep on it for now.  I'll
> look forward to the talk on Saturday about making a worker-owned business!
>
> -Dan
>
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2012, at 1:57 AM, Jae Kwon <jkwon.work at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Wow. That design is beautiful. I hope that happens.
> >
> > RE your post, it sounds great. How easy is it to book a session
> consistently every day? Are you already working on this full time?
> >
> > How much equipment and space do you need run a screen printing operation?
> >
> > How can we help? What do you need?
> >
> > How long does it take to get a t-shirt made? (can I make one in 2hours?)
> >
> > - Jae
>
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