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Printing Boxes on the S.Roque

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Admiral:
We use a solvent poster ink with the quartz flash at .5 second and load them on, position the platens so the box fits up to the edge of it, after that first side is printed the boxes are rotated for the second side then stacked once both sides are done.  We can do 400-500 prints this way...M&R Diamondback so it's a slow press.

Binkspot:
We use acrylic craft ink with a fast trip through the dryer, repeat for the second side.

TCT:
Thanks guys!

We get our boxes from a local box . I have known a sales guy and printed shirts for his home bar since I opened.

The ink is just a air dry poster ink, so it is all dry in like 5 min or so depending how much retarder we put in. This was the first time we did it on the press, before we always just printed them in the basement with a tabletop and jiffy clamps.

The head goes back down because it was never told to raise. The press raises the head by itself to flood the screen. Then returns it to where it was told to have it. It is just in the settings, by default the press is set up for water based printing so it ends on a flood stroke. It is like 2 clicks to change that but after getting used to it,  I actually like it better that way.  I may of made that too complicated,  did that make sense?

Let's just say with the speed, smell, and my awesome "jig" I think we will stick to T-shirts!;)

screenprintguy:
Totally made sense!  ;D thanks for the reply!

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