Made a rookie mistake last week....

[Donnie]

doing a long run of tees and printing the fleece last. I forgot to pay attention to the flash times and the heat on the fleece and cooked the ink in the next screen. Stop, re-shoot one screen for about 15 more pieces. I hate it when that happens.

[rmonks]

I have never heard of this, could you explain how to not make this rookie mistake.

[mk162]

Man, I have made more rookie mistakes recently.  I even announce when they are rookie so everybody knows not to make that mistake.

[Clark]

I have never heard of this, could you explain how to not make this rookie mistake.

If you don't have a cool down station, sometimes the pallets will put off enough heat to semi-cure the ink in the screen that is directly after a flash.  I've never had it bad enough that I had to reshoot, I've always just used screen opener.  But I have had it happen alot on jobs that require both flashes.  I don't use two flashes very often so I seem to make that mistake almost every time we do use both.

15 shirts left?  Man, that sucks! 

 

[Shawn (EIP)]

As tempting as it is to run the easy or the bulk of the order first, I've trained myself to run the pita stuff first. You'll thank yourself later.

[Homer]

I just printed films, shot screens, going to set them up for a noon delivery. . .part of the design is missing. It was white -but not pantone white. . .so nothing printed in my seps. . .sonofabitch. . .oh no, not once -three times. . .so as I sit here watching films come out of 2 printers as fast as possible, I can't help but punch myself in the balls. . .thank God I'm not using the 1280 anymore. . .it's the stupid mistakes, the sh it we've already messed up that grinds my gears. We are way past these stupid mistakes. . .apparently not.

[Frog]

I have never heard of this, could you explain how to not make this rookie mistake.

If you don't have a cool down station, sometimes the pallets will put off enough heat to semi-cure the ink in the screen that is directly after a flash.  I've never had it bad enough that I had to reshoot, I've always just used screen opener.  But I have had it happen alot on jobs that require both flashes.  I don't use two flashes very often so I seem to make that mistake almost every time we do use both.

15 shirts left?  Man, that sucks!

For a true rookie, this often happens with a one station press, which really requires some care and cool-down time when flashing.

[IntegrityShirts]

Here's a true brain fart that has happened in the past:

print film
burn screen
wash out
dry
tape off screen
align on press
ink screen
test print
lift screen

print is mirrored backwards!! lol yes there was text in the design too to add insult to stupidity.

[JBLUE]

Here's a true brain fart that has happened in the past:

print film
burn screen
wash out
dry
tape off screen
align on press
ink screen
test print
lift screen

print is mirrored backwards!! lol yes there was text in the design too to add insult to stupidity.

Ouch!.

[Gilligan]

I started to ink a screen before taping off the other day... only got one glob of ink down and noticed.

[Sbrem]

Seems to me I've done all of these more than once...

Steve

[RICK STEFANICK]

jay your humor cracks me up..

[Artelf2xs]

That's the problem with Screen printing Donnie.... Not enough profit to " Pay attention" 

[mk162]

Or most people smoke their profits...thus leading to more rookie mistakes...and cheeto stains.

[Frog]

Or most people smoke their profits..

I do know that most of us have smoked a board or two!

Time to revisit this post detailing some of our sins. Father Frog will listen to your confessions.