Double Heat Press

[GoldRapt]

I was watching a you tube video today and the presenter used a double heat press to press a t-shirt.

I imagine it is used to press 2 shirts at a time but has anyone ever seen something like this before or have knowledge of its make/model please?

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[Justin]

Twin pneumatic press, load one shirt whilst other is pressing and so on, usually manual push over to other platen but some are auto. Can also be bought as multi station, 4/5 station carousel etc.

[GoldRapt]

Must be a cracking piece of kit if you have the space.

[pw66]

Very useful for volume sublimation due to the longer printing time. You have plenty of time to get the next print lined up accurately so you can maintain a high print rate of 60+ an hour.

Less of a benifit on cut vinyl because the print time is shorter and you are likely to still be setting up the next print when the first one finishes, so your production rate won't be increased much. If you use 5 second vinyl then there is no point even thinking about a double headed press.

[GoldRapt]

I see your point, but couldn't you load up 2 and press one after other, then rinse and repeat? I don't have the space so i'll never find out :biggrin:

[socialgiraffe]

I have one that I use for my sublimation hi vis. Its not a Pneumatic one but it is twin platen made by Adkins.

Bloody brilliant for sublimation work on high volume, but not much time saved when doing DTF work. This is because a DTF presses at 15 seconds (approx) and it takes longer than that to place another garment. Plus DTF needs two pressings.

Sublimation wise I get around 35-40 ish vests an hour with an experienced operator. This could well be across several orders with each garment individually named front and back. At the end of the hour the orders will also be packed and ready to ship. Pneumatic would not get any more garments per hour and would just make the operator lazy

You can pick up absolute bargains if you shop around. This one only cost me £450 as it was an Adkins ex demo purchased from them direct when they were alive. I have seen a few "meatier" ones that are around the £1500 mark but I don't need it so have not looked any further.

[GoldRapt]

I saw it in a video where an all over DTF was printed on one shirt using the twin platten in the photo.t
They printed one quarter, moved the heat press across then pressed the next quarter again for 7 seconds, once the four quarters were done they pressed again using the reverse of the dtf sheet. Didnt look like a shirt i would want to wear as it was a lot of ink taken to the extreeme but a lesson on what could be done. Interesting to see, oddly they pressed at 300 fot 7 seconds each time.