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Guessing Game
Frog:
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--- Quote from: tonypep on May 04, 2011, 01:33:06 PM ---We'd use Lettraset halftones that came in a box and cut them by hand. So halftone color blending was clumsy at best for many.
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When I put my screen printing career on hold years ago, computer seps were still relatively new. When I started it was all about the rubylith, swivel knife and opaquer pens. (and Letraset typefaces and patterns...)
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Swivel knife? You wuss!
And, I still use opaquing pens when needed.
tonypep:
Don't forget the diffusion transfer technique! We used a chemical known as Zipatone. Anyone who knows my full last name can understand why Zip was my moniker for about five ys in the 80s.
tp
Evo:
--- Quote from: Frog on May 04, 2011, 02:27:07 PM ---
Swivel knife? You wuss!
And, I still use opaquing pens when needed.
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Not mine, the boss's. I'd swipe it when he wasn't looking.
This was my usual weapon:
Awhile back I grabbed a fixed blade and scraped off a huge part of an inkjet film I'd just printed (forgot to remove a thick line). Reminded me of old times cleaning up bad camera work that the shop manager used to hand me. :D
Frog:
#11 for me, and I hope that my 3/4 full box like this lasts me until I don't need' em anymore!
Sbrem:
I learned it as a bleed in '75 on shirts, but read about it later as an offset term. We had a vastex that had a stretcher on it, and the squeegee was attached to a holder with bearings that moved horizontally, not vertically. We would put 2 colors in the screen, then add this "waxy" reducer(?) that Wilflex made to make it a short body ink, and that would help keep the blend in the middle, though after 4 or 5 dozen, we'd have to clean out and put fresh inks in.
Steve
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