Purpose of The Manual Roller Squeegee
The Manual Roller Squeegee assists you in two key areas.
1 – for use as a smoothing utensil. It has been proven that the use of a roller squeegee greatly assists in achieving a very smooth opaque print. For the Manual Roller Squeegee, the roller length is limited to 10” to enable a higher pressure per square inch when pushing down. It is similar to dry stroking your print. However, because the roller squeegee will not task you with fighting the friction during your dry stroke – you are able to focus the energy of pushing down on the print to enable smoothing. It is Used with a Teflon coated screen immediately following the flash. The practice of multi - rolling the area will not show up on the print as rolling lines. The thick sheet of Teflon between the roller and the print will mitigate the roll lines.The improvements are more noticeable after a short learning curve.
2 – For use as a foiling tool. When foiling – we heat up the adhesive base and carefully place foil over the area. Accomplishing a confident bond and laminating the foil to the shirt can be cumbersome. Additionally – the hot surface can be uncomfortable. The manual roller squeegee enables the lamination of the foil without causing a drag against the fabric. It brings your hands above the heated surface. Used also with Teflon coated screen.
Regarding the Durability of the Roller Squeegee compared to any other hand held laminating device
The Roller Squeegee has proven itself extremely durable under use with high production automatic machinery. They’ve now been in production for two years and the failure rate has been basically zero. The design when used as a manual laminating tool is far superior to any other on the market. If you buy one for manual printing – it will last forever.
