Short squeegee/floods for auto

[Gilligan]

How do you guys handle this?  We could obviously slip smaller squeegee material in the squeegee bar, but it would still come down and hit the frame if we were to try and slide it over.  Do they just make it flat till the point that it needs to clamp the squeegee when you get one from Action or the factory?

We are looking to cheat a frame over (front and rear hangers) to get another left chest out of the screen.  I'm pretty sure we can just cheat everything over and be fine, but it got me thinking.

Also should I slip in smaller squeegee material and avoid the squeegee overlapping/hanging partly off the platen or is there really any concern there?  We run about 26-27 psi on our white, through S-Mesh if that matters.

[3Deep]

Damm!!! Gil you loss me there buddy which ain't to hard to do

[ebscreen]

Yeah, I'm not quite following either.

Will say this though, unless the squeegee is centered in the holder, don't do it. You'll never get even pressure left to right.
DO cut your squeegee shorter than the pallets they fit though, and/or round the corners.

Gang by using both ends of the screen, front to back, not side to side. If you do it side to side you have to tape
off the image on the ink side of the screen. If you are already doing all of this and still need more images per screen
it's time to get more screens or an auto-reclaim.

[jvanick]

Sounds like he's trying to gang a 2nd 'left' chest in the 'middle' of the screen and compensating by having the screen hang 'half-off' the press.

based on our current (and future TriLoc) registration  methods, this certainly wouldn't work for us, and probably not worth the effort.

That being said... just grab some squeegee holders from action and grab a hack saw...   the flood bar shouldn't matter much... just the squeegee holder...

I have a set of squeegees that are actually 2 separate pieces of squeegee rubber for doing upper chest prints on zip-up hoodies and polo shirts (the gap in the center allows the squeegee to pass over the zipper/buttons).

That all being said.. I think you may run into troubles with having the print bar 'un balanced'.. you will most likely need a chunk of squeegee rubber on the 'right' side of the platen to balance things (unless you're using the chopper stops as your pressure adjustment)

[Gilligan]

Hadn't thought of that (pressure differences).

Have to regroup on that one.

Reason for cheaping out is that it's 3 different left chest for like 50 shirts... one color so not hard if I can save needing an extra screen.

[3Deep]

I kind of see what your asking now, this how I do my screens when trying to gang up large prints and left chest prints on the same screen then tape up what I'm not going to print.  Even double left chest prints just move one down and tape the other up, I also use the full squeegee and flood bar.

[Prosperi-Tees]

Is there where a side clamp press has the advantage?

[Gilligan]

Ah.. True, I can cheat them down/up a little.

See Alan, this is where moving hangers front and back are nice.

[Parker 1]

Is there where a side clamp press has the advantage?

Yes, this is where side clamps shine.  Name drop all on one screen and pull screen out to the next image and your off printing again.  We do this for tag prints takes less than 30sec. between sizes to set up.  We get SM-XXL on one screen.

Gilligan, you may consider leaving the screen locked and moving your pallet front to back.  Don't know how the pallets are attached on the Saber.  Just a thought to get you by. 

[Gilligan]

Is there where a side clamp press has the advantage?

Yes, this is where side clamps shine.  Name drop all on one screen and pull screen out to the next image and your off printing again.  We do this for tag prints takes less than 30sec. between sizes to set up.  We get SM-XXL on one screen.

Gilligan, you may consider leaving the screen locked and moving your pallet front to back.  Don't know how the pallets are attached on the Saber.  Just a thought to get you by.

It would be easier to just move the hangers (only have to move one vs 8 two times) but we had thought of that as well if we really needed more leverage.

Also just looked at it and we could actually do 4 per screen by rotating the screen 90* each go.  Only need to move the back hanger that way and that is probably what we will do.