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print room & finishing room advice needed please
Hey guys,
Were slowly expanding. We’re adding another printer to our setup and decided to build a dedicated print and finishing room to keep all the dust out and make our work flow more streamlined. At the moment we have the printer in our upstairs office and our cutters down stairs in the front reception area and the cutting and finishing out in the factory area. We also have our laminator upstairs which isn’t ideal with the amount of work we are doing now.
We want to build an enclosed area of 70 square metres split into two.
We are leaving room if we want to expand the printing room further down when we add additional areas. The room will be built with a mezzanine level with storage on top.
I’ve attached a diagram of my proposed layout. Does anyone see any problems with this setup or any improvements I can make.
We are leaving our doming setup upstairs because our upstairs office is 100 square metres and there is only two of us. So heaps of space to grow later.
Thanks
Jason
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Jason
looks good but have you got enough room to feed boards into the Ezy taper or do you not use it for mountingKev
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Hey Kevin,
We barely do any board mounting any more. I have two options. I can wheel the ezytaper out into the factory area in the event I need to do this or I can move the cutting table abit closer to the door. My cutting table is 3m by 1.5m so ill have enough room to put the sheet on the cutting table into the ezy taper and out the other size. Would need 5.4 metres and my room length is 7 metres.
To be honest in the last year I’ve mounted maybe ten 8×4 sheets.
I’m trying to keep the rooms as small as possible as well as fitting everything in to reduce energy consumption through heating and lighting etc.
That’s why I put the print room at the back. So in the event we need to expand we can just add another print room towards the back of the factory maybe flatbed.
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Looks good. We have a table either side the laminator, the first table has brackets on to hold a roll of print & feed thro the laminator & we roll up the print/laminate on the 2nd table.
John
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Hey John,
Does your laminator have loading and take up mandrels?
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Hi Jason, no it doesn’t – which is no major problem because not all our print jobs are long runs – so hence the need for tables either side (which also double up as work benches).
cheers
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Hey guys, were taking out that middle wall and having one big room.
I will start another build thread to post the progress.
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John, any chance of you posting a picture of the way your table is set up with the ezy taper for laminating. We have ours set up with tables either side permanent. 6m table then ezy taper then 2.4m table. They are fixed in position though and I would like an easy way of mounting laminate hence looking for other suggestions.
Thanks James
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