There is a rhythm to running a single buck shirt unit that seems to have gotten lost in the soup somehow. Most pressers do something that is close, but not close enough to make for good productivity. You may have heard statements that suggest that fast pressing breeds poor quality. Not knowing how to run […]
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The sleeve press has not been missed by this writer, nor by most plant owners and managers. For many that have been in this business for less than ten years, they know of no other way. In fact, they may not be completely sure what a “sleeve press” is, exactly. For the uninitiated, for around
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In my travels and during my interactions with plant owners and managers, there is one subject (at least) that I have never covered in this column. I’m not apologizing for that. It is a genuine challenge to teach someone how to improve their pressing skills by merely tapping keys on a laptop computer. However, with
I was in a hotel breakfast room a few months ago and there was an array of breakfast sandwiches displayed for the taking. On the packaging of the sandwiches were the words “Made from Scratch”. First of all, I did not take one, secondly, they certainly did not look very appealing and lastly, I thought
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Headlining part three of my Clean Show coverage is my presentation of Sankosha’s new single-buck shirt unit and their new companion Collar/Cuff press. At first glance, this new unit dubbed LP-5600U, looks like many other Sankosha shirts except for this….I’ve been writing this column for well over 20 years. I have not been covering the
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The Clean Show landed in Atlanta once again for the third time since 1987 and if you looked hard enough, you saw some rather amazing things. Over the next few months, I’ll share them with you, but I will tease you a bit right now. Suppose I told you that there is a new shirt
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