In the new age of automation, everything we see or use has switched from manual to automatic. Cars, for instance, are rapidly approaching automatic-only manufacturing. You would be hard-pressed to find a car owner of the current generation who knows how to drive a stick shift. Similarly, companies are switching to new-age ideas, where convenience and ease outweigh manual labor. That is why it is becoming imperative for all companies, including those in the screen-printing industry, to evaluate automation.
Screen printing companies can save large sums of time and money by switching to automatic screen rooms. Production will benefit, and while initial investments may be more costly than older alternatives, long-term benefits can be astronomical. Furthermore, employers do not have to pay as much for training, because the manual aspect of screen prep will be replaced with the easier, more streamlined automatic screen prep. All industries recover what they invest into automation, and more. The same is true for the screen-printing industry; the sooner, the better.
Why Automation is Necessary
Screen room automation will become even more invaluable, primarily due to its innovative capabilities of increasing production speed and cutting labor time and costs. It cuts many time-consuming steps in pre and post press processes, and it lessens worker fatigue. Furthermore, in such an expansive and forward-thinking world, it is all too common to get left behind in the race to success. Hundreds if not thousands of companies just like yours are taking leaps and strides to get ahead of the game. It is becoming an automated world and it will become easier to get left behind the longer you postpone your shop’s automation.
Automation is not a new concept anymore. In recent years and even in the past two decades, automation has taken entire industries by storm. To make it big, or to continue to grow in the current economy, you will have to jump on the automation bandwagon. There are countless advantages both tangible and intangible:
- Reduced employment costs.
- Pre- and post-press processes done manually now, and can be done with fewer personnel resources.
- Reduced demand on personnel resources frees those resources up to perform other demanding tasks.
- Productivity will boom.
- There will be a lower margin for error.
- Supplies costs will decrease.
- Considering increased productivity, you become advantaged to sell your merchandise more competitively or at higher margins.
- This can put you ahead of the competition and makes you a more desirable supplier.
CTS Printing
Computer-To-Screen (CTS) imaging devices for screen printing businesses help owners improve efficiencies, saving time. Frankly, it is all about time. In order to save money, time, and eliminate processes in screen preparation, consider a CTS printer.
CTS printers help reduce common screen printing errors like pinholes, blurry stencils, or even jagged edges. CTS printers provide an easier and more accurate method for screen printers and improve efficiencies by removing manual processes. Replacing these processes with a more accurate, automated production method of screen imaging frees up valuable time to work on other tasks, namely printing. It is a revolutionary way to turn the tide in your business’s favor.
In short, the future of screen room automation is in your hands, and the benefits are yours for the taking if you so choose. And you should choose it! Whether you believe it or not, automation is the future. Success is in automation. Likely, in spite of the next innovative step in the textile industry’s future, screen printing automation is here, and it is here to stay. Make the most of it!
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