Yup. All of my cabinet shop friends basically have enough volume to keep 2+ spray finishers busy all-day every day, and are busy trying to get their per-sheet

Yup. All of my cabinet shop friends basically have enough volume to keep 2+ spray finishers busy all-day every day, and are busy trying to get their per-sheet times from 5 minutes to less ;) That's the low volume guys. The high volume guys are just completely automated from material handling to flat line finishing. Outside of startup costs, complete automation of this stuff isn't usually that expensive (<200k of machines). Single proprietors will never compete with the level of automation you can easily get in the bay area.