Hey Brainwaves. I would also like to see what most people pick for their first at-home-print-setup.

Right now I am starting at the bottom with a one color DIY Gigposter kit from Ryonet. Trying to start really cheap and work my way up. Plus I’m setting it up in my garage like you and I want to make sure I have enough room. I’m afraid a 4 color would mean I could no longer park my car in there.

I’m still in the process of setting up in my garage and I know there’s a ton of other stuff that I’ll need to put in there besides the press and I’ll share that as a blog post and here in the forums.

By the way this is a very inspirational garage setup over at gig posters dot com. Gonna implement some of these ideas for sure.
http://www.gigposters.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71832

I also have a $5 off coupon code on any of the Ryonet DIY kits if anybody is interested. Use discount code “STARTNOW” at checkout.

Yeah thats a good point about the 2 station, parrot.

For my next upgrade level I was looking at this 6 color 4 station press because of how mobile it is I guess.
http://catspitscreenprintsupply.com/6-color-4-station-cruiser-screen-printing-system/

Been really focusing on the portability of my next press cause I dont want to take up to much room and I want to stay in the garage as long as possible. The fact that its stacked on top of a belt dryer kicks ass. I would love it if they had just everything stacked on top of eachother ha. Somehow fit an exposure unit under that and that would be amazing.

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BTW Jonathan at catspit is also a good one to deal with. I went with rilly-Hopkins because of how well they are built in relation to their prices. The Riley-Hopkins is a perfect entry level press and because of the price I was able to get all of what I needed including a conveyor dryer (vastex) for around $5500 bucks

Brainwaves…….Ryonet has been extremely helpful to me in the short time I’ve been dealing with them……However, I went with a bank loan because of the interest.

One thing…….I found out that my kit was all waterbased ink and I didn’t want that due to the fact that the ink dries out on the screen too quickly……have enough to learn without worrying about that. So…..I had them replace my kit with a plastisol based kit. They didn’t bat an eye.
The 16X16 flash dryer did an OK job when I went to their class but I went with the 18X18 for greater coverage and I’m glad I did. Also very glad I went with plastisol ink.

The press you’re looking at is the same as mine other than mine is the 6 color press. I felt this was a better option for simulated process on dark shirts because of the need for a white underbase.

Hi jeremyah. Ive only really used an m&r and a javelin at work and nothing else. Right now im just using a one color DIY screen printing kit from ryonet so I can essentially start as small as possible and get to every skill level one at a time really. I have an unboxing of that kit going up this week and then a full review video in a couple of weeks.

I have an upgrade timeline in my head of what future presses i want to try out. I actually had not looked at vastex at all but i will definitely add it to the possibilities list

I am also planning for this, maybe just need to wait a little more time to complete my finances and have this one ready for real. Right now all of my business printing needs including book and booklet bounds color, I am using this resources http://www.digitekprinting.com/booklets-color.