carding screens

[Appstro]

What is your technique to removing ink efficiently and cleanly from the screen? I am using two cards and kind of scooping them together and scraping into the ink container.

[balloonguy]

I use the inks scoop most of the time. Sometimes I will use a business card too.

[Frog]

Ink knives/cake spatulas

[Underbase37]

Ink knives/cake spatulas

We use these too. Love them for getting all the ink off & mixing ink. The goop scoop is what we use for a lot of ink.

Murphy37

[jvanick]

same here...

picked up a dozen from a restaurant supply place for like $2 each.

-J

[DannyGruninger]

For carding off ink back into buckets we cut up cardboard soda boxes etc that everyone brings in. We put them in the carts and around the press as we use them during runs to card ink back into the image area. Once we are done we just trash them but I feel this saves us lots of time/money then having something we have to clean. As for going from bucket to screen or mixing inks we use the smaller metal blade/wood handle dollar store blades. They work perfect, last a long time, easy to clean and a dollar each. As far as technique going back into bucket we stand screen up almost 90 degrees and take one of the cardboard soda box scraps(we cut them in squares about 3x3) and just card the ink on then scrape into bucket then discard cardboard.Pretty simple and works well for us.

[screenprintguy]

We buy the ultimate clean up cards. Keep the all over the shop. And then we have a whole bunck of 4" wide putty knives forthe thicker inks.

[Binkspot]

Use these spreaders, maybe 100 or so.
http://www.webstaurantstore.com/11-1-2-nylon-sandwich-spreader-with-web-logo/280CR926WEB.html
And some 11" metal ones.

Also get the Ultimate Cleanup Cards, have piles of them around the shop. 1500 of them for $35 is well worth it to us.

[beanie357]

Spatulas for mixing, scoops for transfer out of 30's
Ultimate cards everywhere.

[Northland]

What is your technique to removing ink efficiently and cleanly from the screen? I am using two cards and kind of scooping them together and scraping into the ink container.

I traded a credit card printer a couple blank shirts for a couple thousand gift card misprints.
I use them once and toss them into a bucket... every so often, I empty the bucket into foil pan and run it thru the dryer.
Then right into the trash with them.

[sweetts]

Flat metal cake decorator knifes, they look like ink knifes but were $1.00 each


Roger
RT screen designs
Www.rtscreendesigns. Com

[Denis Kolar]

This is what I use. Make sure it has offset blade
http://www.waresdirect.com/products/Restaurant-Supply/Johnson-Rose-/Offset-Spatula-73426439

[inkman996]

We have access to huge amounts of scrap corrugated plastic for sign making. We cut them down and use the factory edge for ink scraping. Best thing is we have more than we ever need so use and trash.

[printguy]

We use PaperPlus - order 4 bundles of chipboard and they cut it into 3.5" x 4.5". Cost is 171.00 and yield is 9800 pieces which works out to .02 cents ea.

Chipboard product # is 1006432103085 and here's a link to a location finder: http://www.unisourceworldwide.com/Locations/Pages/all-locations.aspx

[Sbrem]

I can't remember using anything but a 3" or 4" paint scraper with the sharp corners filed down...

Steve