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Who here is using the glisten method to coat screens?

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blue moon:
http://www.theshirtboard.com/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=2

We use it here. This does not mean we check the screen every time, but I went through the process and noted how many coats it takes to achieve the results and we stick with it.

Anybody else used this to determine the coating procedure?

Frog:
affirmative.

I actually had to go out and buy a coater with a round edge some years back to cut down on the number of coats to achieve this.
(My old Advance coater will soon be a collector's item that I hope to sell to the lucky winner of the vintage wooden screen auction on ebay.)

Denis Kolar:

--- Quote from: Frog on June 15, 2011, 09:59:09 AM ---(My old Advance coater will soon be a collector's item that I hope to sell to the lucky winner of the vintage wooden screen auction on ebay.)

--- End quote ---

:)

alan802:
We use the glisten method here.  I think those who don't use it are missing out and most likely are not printing with a sufficient eom.  Whenever we get a new emulsion I'll go in the dark room and we determine how many coats on each side with the glisten method, then I'll measure the stencils with the thickness gauge to make sure the eom's are good.  I've found that if you use the glisten method, your eom's will be really close to where they should be and you don't really need a thickness gauge unless you want to go beyond the 15-25% eom ratio.  We do sometimes add coating strokes for those stencils we want to be thicker, especially if we have a job that we can do a "one hit" print on.

I have a chart on the wall above the coating area that has all the desired coating strokes for each mesh count we use so our screens are very consistent in thickness.

The glisten method has been around for a long time, I'm surprised that it's not the standard coating technique and many people don't use it.  None of the local shops that we burn screens for use that technique and I am amazed at some of the stencils that others try to print with around here.  And damn guys, how about putting some sandpaper to the scoop coater and getting rid of all the vertical lines in the stencil.  There will be areas of the screens with zero eom, then a few mm's away it's 20% eom, it's amazing.  I'll start taking pics of some of the screens that come in here.

ZooCity:
One more here.

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