I have received the order from my customer and am busily working to produce 3100 pieces of ceramic tile and 225 various other items. While it is not a mural, it IS the largest job to date. It is exciting and stressful at the same time. So many things can and usually do go wrong in the middle of a time sensitive production. Here are a few…the printer has spurted ink (clogged head), eaten paper (worried that it would knock the head out of alignment or worse…lucked out and is up and running again), the thermostat on the press is reading 40 degrees hotter that actual temperature (wasted 2 cases of tile figuring that out!) and finally my hired help has been a GOD-send but they are not as physically strong as what is needed to control the release of pressure upon opening the press. I cringe every time I hear the head of the press P-O-P open. Over all, however, we are doing good and the “head-popping” doesn’t seem to be causing any problems except for grating on my nerves.
We have five more days of production with the second load of tiles due to arrive on Monday…keep your fingers crossed! At least I have the weekend off.
