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Still more Shirt Pressing Defects

It took me a while to start to like to blown-sleeve shirt units, but, never wanting to be dubbed an �old-school thinker, I found my way out of my close-mindedness several years ago and I have really come to like them. My personal shirts are always pressed on a blown-sleeve unit and quality is fine.
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How to press lab coats

I did a time study at a client�s plant on the west coast about a year ago. We were trying to do something about the poor production numbers from the drycleaning pressers. I found that a large number of lab jackets from the laundry department were being washed, dried and sent to a drycleaning finisher.
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Production can Improve Quality!

When I spoke at one of the DLI�s Educational sessions during the Clean Show last summer, I said something about poor production being a cause of poor quality. A great many drycleaners are certain that lower productivity � be it at the shirt unit, the pants station, or anywhere else � is allowed, and perhaps encouraged to a certain extent, to allow for better quality. Thousands of times, a manager or owner has explained to me that the shirts per