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what do we print on?

platen
15 (51.7%)
pallet
8 (27.6%)
other
1 (3.4%)
who cares?
5 (17.2%)

Total Members Voted: 29

Voting closed: February 01, 2013, 04:05:17 PM

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Offline Stinkhorn Press

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platen or pallet?
« on: January 25, 2013, 04:05:17 PM »
Inquiring minds what to know.
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Offline alan802

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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2013, 04:06:46 PM »
I prefer pallet but I really don't care that much about it.  I just think pallet sounds better but I may be in the minority on that.
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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2013, 04:10:52 PM »
It has been called a platen well before palette, platen is really the correct term but I bet it has been confused with the more common sounding palette and people simply started calling it that.
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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2013, 04:16:32 PM »
Pallet, Platen, Palette, Shirt board, shirt holder, shirt jigs - call it what you like. I always liked Pallet! We've gone with that one since day one.
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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2013, 04:44:19 PM »
action has spoken...therefor it must be.

I started calling it pallet, now I call it both.
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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2013, 04:49:31 PM »
Here we refer to it as...


all together now...


The Shirt Board
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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2013, 06:29:04 PM »
I call them pallets when they are off the press and shirt boarts when they are on the press. Why? You don't put shirts on the when they are off the press.
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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2013, 06:43:58 PM »
When you add an image on it with ink, It's pallet. Like a artist paint pallet. :)
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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2013, 07:08:50 PM »
Quote from: Jon on January 25, 2013, 06:29:04 PM
I call them pallets when they are off the press and shirt boarts when they are on the press. Why? You don't put shirts on the when they are off the press.

Actually, I have been known to do just that to illustrate why a 12" design doesn't fit on my 11" youth boards!
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Offline brandon

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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2013, 09:41:12 PM »
Everyone I work with calls them pallets. I call them platens.

Potato or Potatoe.

In Seattle it is called Manny's or Rainier. In New Orleans it is called Dixie or Abita. In Australia it is called Fosters...
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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2013, 09:53:44 PM »
I call 'em Frank, and blame all my misprints on him.

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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2013, 10:11:17 PM »
Platens. Pallets are the skids big shipments of product comes in on and require a pallet jack to move them off the truck into the shop.
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Offline Northland

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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2013, 11:22:05 PM »
If "pallet" is good enough for Action engineering... it's good enough for me.
http://www.actionengineering.com/cat-24-1-481/MR_Style.htm


I would call it a "platen" if was heated... like a heat press surface.
http://hotronix.com/shop-online/optional-platens/clam-heat-press-platens
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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2013, 02:21:10 AM »
Quote from: Inkman996 on January 25, 2013, 04:10:52 PM
It has been called a platen well before palette, platen is really the correct term but I bet it has been confused with the more common sounding palette and people simply started calling it that.

Agreed. On a letterpress, the platen is the surface the paper being printed is placed on. Not sure where pallet came from, but I hear that more often than platen.
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Re: platen or pallet?
« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2013, 09:59:39 AM »
It's not really that much of a stretch to see how it evolved to often be used as a shirt board

Definition of PALLET

1: a wooden flat-bladed instrument
2: a lever or surface in a timepiece that receives an impulse from the escapement wheel and imparts motion to a balance or pendulum
3: a portable platform for handling, storing, or moving materials and packages (as in warehouses, factories, or vehicles)
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