09.29.2010

Screen printing presses

A curse and a blessing for screen printing is that many things can be done wrong or in a far less than optimum way and print the job and possibly have a satisfied customer. Add the low price of entering screen printing and you can see how sometimes the m… more »
Categories: Screen Printer Ranting, Industry News, Tools and Equipment, Testing/Troubleshooting
07.7.2009

How old before it is outdated?

Knowing about how screen printing worked when twisted multi-fiber thread mesh was common or the only thread available and synthetic threads were new is interesting but new products only hold a basic similarity in performance to that primitive equipment.… more »
Categories: Screen Printer Ranting, Screen Printing History, Quality Control, Testing/Troubleshooting, Substrates, Mesh, Emulsion, Inks, Positives
05.10.2009

Magic? or is that just printing?

Question: Do I have to have retensionable frames to print four color process? A Rep at a show said I had to to get good results. Answer: Retensionable frames DO make a difference by adding just that much more consistency available to the prin… more »
Categories: Screen Printer Ranting, Quality Control, Tools and Equipment, Testing/Troubleshooting, Graphics, Screens, Mesh
05.10.2009

RIP or no?

Recently there have been several machines capable of applying ink, wax, or other media directly onto a screen's layer of emulsion to replace the positive. Basically everything we need from the positive without the film. More on this later. Without wax… more »
Categories: Screen Printer Ranting, Improvising, Computers, Quality Control, Testing/Troubleshooting, Graphics, Screens, Emulsion, Positives, Expose_Develop
05.5.2009

How to chose a line count (frequency) correctly for your mesh

How to START to chose a line count (frequency) correctly for your mesh There are simple answers and propeller head math junkie answers. Unless I am mistaken you can find a rather complicated formula for finding exact (yet theoretical) size to mesh… more »
Categories: Printing Process, Quality Control, Testing/Troubleshooting, Graphics, Screens, Mesh, Emulsion, Positives, Expose_Develop
04.30.2009

Is a tension meter a tension meter or not?

You may have seen the debate about this, and because of a recent post about this subject I wanted to review a bit about the inexpensive drum tension tuner... In fact, there have been several small screen printing supply companies who have used thi… more »
Categories: Improvising, Printing Process, Quality Control, Tools and Equipment, Testing/Troubleshooting, Screens, Mesh