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glossary: What is a squeegee?

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jvanick:
from that page:


--- Quote ---Squeegee: Wooden or metal handled tool with a rubber blade used to drive ink through a stencil by pulling the squeegee across the screen.
--- End quote ---

I hate the description of 'driving' ink through the screen -- unless you're printing waterbase.

When printing plastisol, if you're driving ink through the screen, you're doing it wrong.

Orion's description seems pretty spot on to me.

Underbase37:
A scraping tool with a rubber-edged blade set on a handle.

In screen printing used to move a fluid (Ink) through a stencil, shearing it to the substrate.

Murphy

Underbase37:
I also like Orion's definition.

Murphy

blue moon:
dos it have to be polyurethane? Could it be rubber? or PVC, or even metal?
Is it always shearing? jvanick just said it only shears when printing plastisol, but not when using it for waterbase. . . Or are we shearing waterbased inks, but also driving them in at the same time?

pierre

tonypep:
In 16th century Asia the blade was often made of bamboo or wood

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