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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Itsa Little CrOoked on February 03, 2015, 07:56:14 AM

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Post by: Itsa Little CrOoked on February 03, 2015, 07:56:14 AM
Ummmm......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhTfw6UzFWs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhTfw6UzFWs)
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Post by: 1964GN on February 03, 2015, 08:04:30 AM
My favorite part was the prayer before they started print :)
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Post by: Underbase37 on February 03, 2015, 09:47:11 AM
We do a sacrifice to the  screenprint gods every morning.

Murphy37

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Post by: GraphicDisorder on February 03, 2015, 09:51:48 AM
Probably better printing then a lot of printers still.
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Post by: blue moon on February 03, 2015, 10:10:23 AM
what's interesting in the video is that despite the lack of technology, they have the operations dialed in. Everybody seems to know what to do and is doing it pretty efficiently. The employees (at least for the video) are not slacking off and flailing around. They seem to be all business!

pierre
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Post by: T Shirt Farmer on February 03, 2015, 10:24:53 AM
We do a sacrifice to the  screenprint gods every morning.

Murphy37

That's funny!!
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Post by: royster13 on February 03, 2015, 10:40:40 AM
Another shop doing "great" all over prints.....LOL...
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Post by: 3Deep on February 03, 2015, 10:51:15 AM
Doing a whole lot with very little, and we spend tens of thousands of dollars over here on equipment to print a 1.95 T-shirt, my hats off to them.
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Post by: inkman996 on February 03, 2015, 11:40:32 AM
Definitely impressive craftsmanship but I hope all that ink they are washing off outside is not hazardous crap. Being India chances are it is.
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Post by: Action1 on February 03, 2015, 12:29:34 PM
That was really impressive. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: ebscreen on February 03, 2015, 12:46:12 PM
There's a place near my shop that prints Victorian era wallpaper exactly like that. In an old armory building.
They use a squeegee though and hand it off over the table, as opposed to that magic roller thing.
Wanted to take the shop there on a field trip but they apparently stopped doing tours.
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Post by: Itsa Little CrOoked on February 03, 2015, 12:48:22 PM
That was really impressive. Thanks for sharing.

I just happened across it by accident. Didn't have to think twice whether (or where!) to post it.

I'm often guilty of instinctive American thinking that we are pretty darned smart. These things put me in my rightful place in the universe.
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Post by: alan802 on February 03, 2015, 12:51:31 PM
Just think how much faster they could set up jobs if their screens were tensioned properly :).  I doubt there is much concern on properly disposing their waste.
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Post by: inkman996 on February 03, 2015, 01:48:39 PM
Just think how much faster they could set up jobs if their screens were tensioned properly :).  I doubt there is much concern on properly disposing their waste.

Just imagine the size of the Tensioning Table. Could you imagine the warp in the frames if they were tensioned to 30N
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Post by: alan802 on February 03, 2015, 02:00:36 PM
The frames would need to be made from structural steel to keep them from bowing.
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Post by: Itsa Little CrOoked on February 03, 2015, 02:10:30 PM
Then they'd be so heavy they couldn't pick them up.

You can see the mesh release "lagging" as they pick up the frames. Tight registration seems impossible, but it is what it is.
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Post by: Frog on February 03, 2015, 02:33:54 PM
Tight registration seems impossible, but it is what it is.

My first introduction to screen printing was printing yardage on long tables with waterbased inks, using a T-Square, and hand-positioned-and-steadied frames printing repetitive designs designed so that we didn't need really tight registration.

It is not uncommon for those without a press in some other countries to print some pretty cool multicolor shirts by merely hand positioning subsequent screens by eye
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Post by: Screened Gear on February 03, 2015, 02:44:15 PM
I think I am going to try to stand on my pallets and smooth my shirts out with my foot this week.
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Post by: Action1 on February 03, 2015, 02:56:19 PM
Just for fun – let’s compare efficiencies :

Let’s say we are printing an image of 16” x 20” @ 50 dozen an hour = 16” x 20” x 50 x 12 = 192,000 square inches / 144 = 1333 square feet.
It appears that the printing table was around 6 foot x 30 feet = 180 square feet
Can they do 7.5 of those an hour? I’ll bet they get close to at least half of that as they have several tables readied.


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Post by: Action1 on February 03, 2015, 02:57:08 PM
I think I am going to try to stand on my pallets and smooth my shirts out with my foot this week.

You do that - and call us when your done. We're stocked up and ready!
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Post by: Itsa Little CrOoked on February 03, 2015, 03:06:04 PM
I think I am going to try to stand on my pallets and smooth my shirts out with my foot this week.

You do that - and call us when your done. We're stocked up and ready!

Was that a hockey puck? I couldn't see it close enough to be sure.
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Post by: Maxie on February 03, 2015, 03:08:05 PM
I wonder what their off contact is.
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Post by: Frog on February 03, 2015, 05:08:44 PM
Off contact? With waterbased inks on fabric, we don't need no stinkin' off contact!
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Post by: Doug S on February 03, 2015, 06:59:49 PM
Their color count is only limited by the amount of screens they have.  Pretty impressive!