"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
Quote from: ZooCity on March 05, 2015, 07:34:59 PMNote the 18 head press with five flashes....how many stateside shops are pvc free at this point? I'm impressed that any shop can manage to go all HSA.Where in the vid did you see that? I must have checked twenty times, mostly looking for an oval...Yeah, props to them, that's tough.The real question, what emulsion, and do they use LEDs...
Note the 18 head press with five flashes....how many stateside shops are pvc free at this point? I'm impressed that any shop can manage to go all HSA.
Quote from: 244 on March 05, 2015, 05:33:40 PMQuote from: ebscreen on March 05, 2015, 03:45:13 PMAha, that makes sense. We frequently double stroke HSA as well. Paramount only runs HSA. Plastisol is no longer used there.Note the 18 head press with five flashes....how many stateside shops are pvc free at this point? I'm impressed that any shop can manage to go all HSA.
Quote from: ebscreen on March 05, 2015, 03:45:13 PMAha, that makes sense. We frequently double stroke HSA as well. Paramount only runs HSA. Plastisol is no longer used there.
Aha, that makes sense. We frequently double stroke HSA as well.
Quote from: ZooCity on March 05, 2015, 07:34:59 PMQuote from: 244 on March 05, 2015, 05:33:40 PMQuote from: ebscreen on March 05, 2015, 03:45:13 PMAha, that makes sense. We frequently double stroke HSA as well. Paramount only runs HSA. Plastisol is no longer used there.Note the 18 head press with five flashes....how many stateside shops are pvc free at this point? I'm impressed that any shop can manage to go all HSA.I imagine they had to go pvc free as they deal with some clients who dictate what nks you can and cant use, much easier to just make the switch and be done with it. Its coming faster than many realize. Just as the phalate compliant inks finally set it and we got used to printing and cleaning up after them, the pvc free game is gonna roll some heads. those that get in now will have the head start.
I believe it'll be a long time before the general customer wants to pay for HSA inks...- think of all the added cost of running a flash after just about every color (or gasp, revolver mode)- the added time of doublestroking (although with table-up multistroke or drop-screen type presses, the added time to stroke a 2nd time with thin(er) inks probably isn't as bad as some of us make it out to be)
New technology and inks will cost someone in the end you roll with it or get out the game.
flashing after every color == a LOT more electricity used and needed in a typical shop..I wonder how long it'll be before somebody figures out a WoW HSA ink solution...
Quote from: jvanick on March 06, 2015, 11:09:22 AMflashing after every color == a LOT more electricity used and needed in a typical shop..I wonder how long it'll be before somebody figures out a WoW HSA ink solution...This problem of WOW is really only a US based problem due to our 1-and-done way of printIng. Go across the pond or jump the fence and it has always been a print flash print kind of thing. Its not up to the world to meet our expectations of printing, its up to us to figure out how to use what the world is offerIng.