bandanas on the auto

[ericheartsu]

is anyone printing full sized bandanas on the auto?

If so what size screen are you using, what size plattens, and what sized squeegees?

[TCT]

We do a lot. Screens are usually a 26 x 33. Squeegees are either a 20" or a 23" depending on the imprint. Pallets are 24x32.
We found to make it go faster we needed 3 people on press. We lift our last head to "high lift" and use that as unload. The usual unload station becomes rough loading, and the usual loading station becomes smoothing/positioning. The 3 person set up is a HUGE benefit for when you come across dozen folds that are all wrinkled...

[ABuffington]

Bandannas wrinkle easily in the half folds they come in.  Another trick if you have catchers and pullers who need something to do is to run the bandannas all through the oven and stack flat and smooth out.  The heat and weight of the stack will iron them out.  This also works if you use outside dying services for t-shirts and they come back stuffed into a large plastic bag.  They just dye em, costs a fortune for a dye house to lay out flat.

Al

[Screen Dan]

We do 22" x 22" bandannas.  Edge to edge.  We use 32" x 43"screens for that on whatever M&R's biggest all-over jumbo size pallet is  (the ones with the slight wings for the shoulder-to-sleeve area). 

Discharge, obviously.  (Who the hell would want to wear a bandanna covered in plastisol?)

They go nuts with the Tex-Tac to keep those suckers flat.