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Marking lines on a Pre- registration air platen / pallet trick

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eviltig:
Hey everyone...
I am in the middle of making a pre-registration air platen / pallet and was playing around with ways to mark lines on it.
This is a laminate on wood so I used a scribe to score some lines, then I tried to color them in with a sharpie but that was a bit of a fail.
Then I remembered I used a white crayon on my Glock about 16 years ago on the word GLOCK and it still looks awesome today.
So I raided my sons box of mixed pencils / markers and was hoping crayons, luckily there was one red one in there :)

Here are some pictures of what it looks like, keep in mind you can not feel the lines and the are really thin, perfect for lining up registration marks to.

I can post a thread on making the air registration platen if anyone is interested and I also have a video I could post showing this crayon trick in depth so to speak.
I may be able to post it on here? or youtube lol

blue moon:
that's cool!

thanx for sharing

pierre

Sbrem:
What's a pre-registration air platen? Just curious...

Steve

eviltig:
No problem at all :)
I like share since I get so much from all of the other posts.

this is what the markings is on.
I think I may be done making this and will post it in the DIY section after I test it.

Cheers,
Mike

eviltig:

--- Quote from: Sbrem on April 07, 2016, 04:15:05 PM ---What's a pre-registration air platen? Just curious...

Steve

--- End quote ---

It is a board or system of jigs set so you can get your artwork onto your screen in the exact same spot for multi color jobs and then mount the screens into your screen printer faster with out the need to use the micro adjust (most of the time)
It also is nice for one color jobs as you can pop those in without the need to do any adjustments.
It saves time mainly.

In the picture below you can see three pins. the screen will press up against the three pins while your artwork is being held down by air suction. I use a cheap foot switch from harbor freight to turn on and off the shop vac for this purpose.
When you release the air you can lift the screen off and go on to the next color. this way later you can use the same three pins to put the screen on the press and it should land in the same exact spot each time.

This is the poor mans Pre registration lol  the cheapest one I could find to buy was $499.00 then the next level was $999 and they go up... way up to thousands on top of thousands.

Hope this helps, you can look up pre registration or VRS on youtube and they demonstrate  the VRS Vastex. it helps to see it being done :)

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