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Fantastic you just did the two screen method and walked away with not only a much better print but did it in much less time, if your powers to be cannot see the benefit in that hit them over the head with a club.
What was the mesh counts for those two screens, I am assuming the first screen was a high TPI hence why your coverage was suffering.
Since you are now doing the two screens, here is a great tip for registering two screens of the same color. Print the first screen then using scotch tape or any clear tape, tape off the registration marks. Print the next screen and you then can easily tell the top ink from the bottom ink and make microing much easier. If you have a registration system disregard this tip lol.
Quote from: Inkman996 on January 15, 2013, 01:33:00 PMFantastic you just did the two screen method and walked away with not only a much better print but did it in much less time, if your powers to be cannot see the benefit in that hit them over the head with a club.One of the bigger problems is that the "powers that be" are in a completely different building two blocks away and very rarely come over here......Quote from: Inkman996 on January 15, 2013, 01:33:00 PMWhat was the mesh counts for those two screens, I am assuming the first screen was a high TPI hence why your coverage was suffering.originally the screen was a 230 and it had everything on it, now it is the 230 with just the halftone design and then a 160 with the just the words.Quote from: Inkman996 on January 15, 2013, 01:33:00 PMSince you are now doing the two screens, here is a great tip for registering two screens of the same color. Print the first screen then using scotch tape or any clear tape, tape off the registration marks. Print the next screen and you then can easily tell the top ink from the bottom ink and make microing much easier. If you have a registration system disregard this tip lol.That's kind of how we register our screens as it is. We print the first screen on the pellon then using clear packing tape tape off the whole thing then print the second screen on the tape so we can wipe it off as we make adjustments, then if there are more than two colors we just tape over the second color and move onto the third and so on....We have no sort of registration system!!! LOL!!! have you been reading this thread!!!??? LOL!!!Nick
I think you meant to say the first screen had the half tones and the type, then the second was the high lite white with only the words.
Funny thing I got from your place is that your powers to be let you use expensive pellons for test printing yet balk at something that would actually help you seriously improve the work flow. Pellons suck, expensive and not the same substrate material as what you are actually going to print on. They are great tho if one plans on keeping printed samples of everything they do.If your boss's are not physically present then if I were you I would spend the time needed getting these things worked out, it will help you out and maybe just maybe those boss's will realize your abilities and respect your needs to whip the shop in to shape. Paralelling that press is probably your next thing that has to change.
If you parallel that press, then start using some decently tensioned screens then I promise you that your setup times will be cut in half, probably closer to 70%. Our shop is living proof of that stat. We had a terribly calibrated press and 10-12 newton screens and now we are lucky and have better tools for the job and we can do twice as much work as we did back then. Before we added the regi system we were in the neighborhood of doing 50-60% more with the new press and high tensioned screens. I promise you I'm not making this up. I'll be glad to send your bosses the graphs that show those increases. Oh, and no added payroll either.
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