[sudoroom] Glass and Screen Printing

[Evan Martin]

I've been doing some screen-printing at home and would rather move this
somewhat messy process to a shop. I'd also offer to donate my Yudu to the
shop/hackerspace but if there are already professional printers/screens I
don't know if it would be useful.

-Evan

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Jehan Tremback <jehan.tremback at gmail.com>wrote:

> Window logo looks great!
> On Nov 15, 2012 8:41 AM, "Max Klein" <isalix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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