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screen printing => Equipment => Topic started by: LuckyFlyinROUSH on March 07, 2015, 10:47:43 PM
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Post your darkroom up! We are in the middle of moving walls/restructuring ours....don't mind the mess. We have been putting off doing screens with how much dust we have been creating. Majority of our screens are in another room at the moment.
We are planning on moving the temporary spot for the Starlight and turning the new I-Image sideways and putting it behind the Starlight in the back corner. Taking out that door, and dry walling that hole.
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Is your washout in your darkroom?
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Wish I could, we dont have a dark room. Our ST and our Starlight are in our fully lit warehouse. Screens are carried out of that 6,300sqft room into what once was a bathroom that has a washout booth/diptank.
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Far from a "dark" room. We're in an open space. I used warehouse shelving to sort of make a room. I'd like to come back and improve on it at some point.
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having actually worked in a real dark room, that was actually very dark, with red safelights only while developing film in trays, I think "darkroom" is a misnomer. In ours, coated screens are kept in a cabinet, and we have yellow safelights above while placing films on screens, and that's it, not dark at all. The washout sink is adjacent to a window, full daylight pouring in (not direct sunlight). Sorry, no pics handy...
Steve
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We keep coated screens in our 2 vastex cabinets. But thats also in our warehouse, under LED lights.
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This is our set up, wash out is to the left of the picture. Sorry in advance if it's sideways.
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Changed the title!
Our room isn't "DARK" either, that is just what we call it. Safe lights in room where fresh screens are, and over our exposure unit. Its all confined in a big room, but seperate rooms are built into it. Reclaim is the huge booth, washout is the smaller booth. The picture of the screen rack actually has rolling racks on the other wall. I'll have to get a picture of it.
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Nice photos. Great to see how other builds out their systems..
Here is our set up. Far from perfect.. but its a work in progress.
Screens, exposure in the same room.
We have some extra screen storage under the Starlight...
Wash out are is a short walk from exposure room. We use a screen cart
mounted sideways to dry screens....
- J
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DCSP John, your place looks very tidy and organized. Nice set up.
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ours... washout is in the shop about 15 feet or so outside the room:
(http://www.oaknet.com/gallery/var/albums/Screen-Printing/975-Nimco-Suite-P---Setup/IMG_7267.jpg?m=1415066620)
we were limited where to put our screen room if we didn't want to move sprinkler heads... but this actually works out really well for us...
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our "dark room" and washout room are a couple steps away from one another, but here they are!
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I'm too embarrassed to show mine :(
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Lookin good everybody. Its cool to see everyone's different setups. Bimm, you can't really be embarrassed, our old "dark room" was two shelves and a tarp over it in the middle of a warehouse.
Here is the other side of our screen closet, should have 4 full racks of coated screens.
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Bimmridder/Dave setup is nice! He has nothing to be embarrassed about, aside from the only reason he hasn't posted is he doesn't know how to use the camera on his phone:P
We are cleaning/prepping a wall in ours to paint(a pic will make sense) so ours is in 3 parts now, but I'll snap a pic in the morning.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/jlansdell/screen%20room_zpsumwemmni.jpg)
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I'm too embarrassed to show mine :(
Don't believe him, I've been there.
Dave and the BR team has a great set-up that works great.
That's hard to do as an efficient 1 man operation does not scale well when you get busy.
Volume dictates his reclaim is in a different room/area than coating/exposure and washout/drying/taping is in yet a 3rd area.
BUT, the screen loop is very efficient, little to no wasted space/time.
One of the best mid/large size screen loops I have seen.
~Kitson
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Nothing special here. It all gets the job done. Even the 2x4 exposure "unit" I built 14 years ago. Knock on wood I've only had to replace the glass once. Burns a screen in 2 mins, giving me time to wash out the one before it. Plans are to move the ink (which is on shelves behind the door) into the drying and storage room, insulate and heat it.
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Here is ours taken apart. The wall that is not painted is getting painted today. I had plastic covering it before to keep the decaying wall from spreading dust, but so much would gather at the bottom I worried about it getting blown around eventually. So after the wall is painted today, we will bring our screen racks back in and be back to normal. The other view of the "empty" end is where our registration unit goes and the space is "waiting" for a CTS....