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Offline Itsa Little CrOoked

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Re: Speechless.
« Reply #15 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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Re: Speechless.
« Reply #16 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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Re: Speechless.
« Reply #17 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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Re: Speechless.
« Reply #18 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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Re: Speechless.
« Reply #19 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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Re: Speechless.
« Reply #20 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!

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Re: Speechless.
« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2015, 03:08:05 PM »
I wonder what their off contact is.
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Re: Speechless.
« Reply #22 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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Re: Speechless.
« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2015, 06:59:49 PM »
Their color count is only limited by the amount of screens they have.  Pretty impressive!
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