So it is here, the new embroidery machine came last week.  It is a beast, thanks to all of our friends for coming and helping us move it in, it was 800lbs down a flight of stairs.  Anyway, the machine is great, it is already proving it’s worth and we have done over 100 hats on it.  Stay tuned for specials and such, this machine will help us produce the quality of products at the pace you have come to demand from Graphic Disorder!

The embroidery machine has been maxxed out for a while now, so today, we’ve purchased another machine.  This time 15-color, dual head machine.  This puts us with a total of three heads, capable of THREE times faster production for me, and THREE times faster that your order will ship, for you!  Shouldn’t be too much of a learning curve over the other one, so I’d imagine we will be up and running as soon as we take delivery within 10-14 business days.  Check our websites and be on the lookout for more embroidery sales, faster turnaround times, and overall cheaper pricing.

We’d like to thank our loyal customers who help make it possible for us to constantly stay ahead of the curve! 

Wow, so a few months ago we decided to upgrade Shellys daily computer, well we ran across a sweet deal on a quad core pc at Dell and decided to hop on board for one.  The cool thing is that it came with a 24 inch wide screen, which would go nice next to her already nice 24 inch wide screen to bring her up to 2 24 inch wide screens.

 Jealous would be the best word to describe me.  I let this go on for awhile, then I folded.  I purchased a new 40 inch Samsung 10,000:1 Contrast Ratio Wide Screen.  Now this goes nice to my own 24 that I was using the whole time.  So I gotta say if you have never used dual monitors, specifically large ones, go for it.  I am doing work faster and find myself rubbing my eyes less and less.  I think we may be finally done upgrading our network/pcs for awhile. 

Well after giving my PPC-6700 my best effort to like I just couldn’t get happy with it.  So I made the mistake of checking out a Apple Store and playing with the iPhone.  Well it took me about 10 seconds to realize I had to have one, and by the time Shelly had decided she had to have one also.  So we are the new owners of 2 16gb iPhones.  These gadgets should help us keep up with our customers while on the road traveling and out of town.  We have a laptop but getting to that isn’t always easy.  This is just another way we take keeping in touch with us up a level since we can now be handling email from litterly anywhere. 

 So dont freak out when I reply to your emails on a holiday at 4am… just means im playing with my iPhone!

We are growing again, fun huh? 

 We pick up our new Vastex Screen Print Press Monday.  Should be up and running same day and ready for production shortly after.  This is a new 6 color/6 station press.  Conveyor dryer, exposure unit with drying cabinet, VRS Pin Registration, ect.  This is a heavy duty machine, and is light years ahead of the small press we currently use.  This new equipment should allow us to do your orders faster, even more accurate, and best of all…..at a lower price. 

 -hint look for a sale soon……

Most of our East Coast and Midwest customers are used to there cards taking a couple days longer than what our West Coast customers see.  That is because our main print shop is in California.  However some of you may have already noticed that your getting your print even faster.  Thats because we now have 2 locations for printing.  Your cards will come from the one closer to you and our second print shop is in Ohio.  so we have basically split the US.  Nothing has changed on the quality the print quality will remain perfect as well as the thick paper that others can not match and our pricing will remain the same. 

 This should speed up print orders by a couple days for some of you Midwest/South/East guys.  Just another way we are commited to being the fastest and best printer in this Industry.

We got tired hauling around our Cannon 40d just for random pictures so we picked up us a new point and shoot camera so we can keep the 40D at home and only bring it out when we need those super nice pictures. We got a DSC-W55 7.2mp Sony. Its not the greatest camerea in the world but it takes a decent image just enough for less important pictures.

So its been here a couple weeks now and I have had time to install it and see it running daily.  This thing is awesome.  On a nightly basis it goes out and backs up all the PC’s.  It keeps a data base of backups for as long as you ask it to and you can restore files from any of those days, or do a complete restore back to that day.  I have ours configured with 1 x 500gb and 3 x 750gb Sata drives.  Total space after formating was 2.5tb or 2,500gb for those not geeky.  I also installed a new 750gb data drive into each of mine and Shellys PC’s to bring us both to around 1.3tb or 1,300gbs on our personal PCs.  So now the odds of us losing any data are slim and none and thats great.  This thing also has a webshare function so we can now trade photo albums on the web with friends and family, it even allows them to save and upload there own images.  Another great feature is that we can now remote desktop to any PC in the house via any web browser and work or get files like we are sitting at it.  Its pretty slick. While I was at it I also upgraded the home network to all gigabit switches so data can now travel 10x faster on our network.

Here is a quick shot of it with my cell phone and a bottle of advil to give you some idea on size. It is less then 10inches tall.

New addition to my camera equipment–Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM. This is a rediculously wide lens. I look forward to using it with my 40D for some great shots!

We have been running low on drive space for some time now. It was time for a drastic solution. So we ordered up a HP Media Smart Server and we are filling it with 1 x 500gb and 3 x 750 gig hard drives, we are also putting 750gb drives in each of our design computers in addition to there main drives now. This should bring us to around 6.6tb of drive space on the network after we get everything settled. Redundant as well. This just another way we are commited to our business and our customers and the work we do for them.

Stay tuned I will post up some pictures as we recieve the items and get them up and running.