It’s what you can’t see that matters. Screen room personnel often fall into a repetitive cycle in screen making. Handling screens becomes a constant work pattern where little thought is given to the condition of the emulsion, the screen room, the exposure process, or...
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This month’s newsletter gets back to the basics of screen making. Spring is the start of the busy season in screen printing with new companies opening their doors and new employees that need to know how to make a screen. Not just any screen mind you, but a screen that...
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The Power of S Threads Today’s screen printing world is in the midst of major change. PVC and Pthalate free inks are being used more and more, but they print far differently than any ink you have used in the past. Plastisol will still have its’ place, but many major...
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Screen mesh technology has come a long way from the 12xx multilament mesh days. For those too young to know what 12xx means; this was a typical mesh made of...
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Screen Printing is unique among printing methods. It can vary from a printed medical circuit, to a 14 color simulated process masterpiece on a t-shirt, to a 100 screen fine art serigraph. While the print process is very similar, squeegee, mesh, ink, and substrate,...
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3D Foiling Trick Within a Discharge Print Foiling has regained popularity over the past few years as an accent for water base and discharge ink prints. Generally however the foiling falls short of the sparkle that foil can have when it is applied over a textured base....
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Screen Room Design How It Effects Exposure Quality In last month’s newsletter we discussed exposure lamps and their effect on emulsion exposure. The screen room also plays an important role in exposure quality and how it performs on press. In most shops the screen...
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Automatic Textile Presses The Hidden Costs Automatic textile presses require more company resources than meets the eye. Too often owners look past the cost of the press payments and focus only on the potential profits of increased production capacity. When profit...
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Murakami Pre Stretched Screens can be stretched with any of our Smartmesh meshes. Stretched on precision stretchers with balanced tensions from frame to frame and consistent mesh to frame orientation for predictable halftone angle... Read More ››