Overprinting Discharge

[Gilligan]

Why not go with the sheet of plexi and your film positive on it?  Or a crap of plexi and a standard set of reg marks printed on film and taped to it so you can put that on the platten and line it all up to that each time.

You could even make a jig to make sure it's snug down and in the exact same place every time if you wanted to be super precise.

[RICK STEFANICK]

i guess even taping one of the film positives to the pallet would work.

[Nick Bane]

i guess even taping one of the film positives to the pallet would work.

used to do this all the time when i was printing samples all day on the manual.  i was the only one the art dept would let take the films into the shop cause they knew id keep em clean.

[ZooCity]

i guess even taping one of the film positives to the pallet would work.

Old school!  That was my preferred method in my early days.  We use pre-reg though and it really is best to just pull a key color and flash it enough to reg the rest of the colors without making a big mess. 

I like the idea of just printing the reggies with a little bit of plastisol and cleaning it out but, with the pin-lock, we have no reason not to simply load the wb and go, we'll be in reg quick enough, it's only a simple bump left or right that's needed, if anything. 

John the "poor-man's pre-reg" you describe is in old M&R manuals.  Great method I would say, all you need is a good film template for positioning and a simple alignment board.  Cheap as all get out and very effective. 

[jsheridan]

John the "poor-man's pre-reg" you describe is in old M&R manuals.  Great method I would say, all you need is a good film template for positioning and a simple alignment board.  Cheap as all get out and very effective.

I've tried every possible way to reg screens and for the most simple and effective results with out a system in place, this is my fall back and I use it daily.

[ZooCity]

John the "poor-man's pre-reg" you describe is in old M&R manuals.  Great method I would say, all you need is a good film template for positioning and a simple alignment board.  Cheap as all get out and very effective.

I've tried every possible way to reg screens and for the most simple and effective results with out a system in place, this is my fall back and I use it daily.

I like it!  Simple, to the point, low-tech.   I would use the same if we didn't have a pin-lock already.