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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: ole jobe on February 21, 2016, 09:44:52 PM

Title: Prinnting Polo's
Post by: ole jobe on February 21, 2016, 09:44:52 PM

Anyone found an effective jig for printing over the plackets on polos?

Title: Re: Prinnting Polo's
Post by: Maxie on February 22, 2016, 12:01:24 AM

We have 2 squeegees with about a 2" X 1/2" gap in the middle.
We can print polos on our regular boards.
We are printing one color with a base.
You can easily make the gap with a grind wheel.

Title: Re: Prinnting Polo's
Post by: ole jobe on February 22, 2016, 02:34:50 PM

Thanks, I'll try that. I have tried building up the platens, but that's a pain.

Title: Re: Prinnting Polo's
Post by: jvanick on February 22, 2016, 03:10:48 PM

we use 'split' squeegees here as well... with the quik-clamp it makes it easy to just put 2 pieces of separated squeegee rubber in the holder.

Title: Re: Prinnting Polo's
Post by: Wildcard on February 22, 2016, 06:31:49 PM

Any issues with buttons and wonky off contact using this method?
I recently did a pocket print on some front zip hoodies and tried building up platens, but it sucked. But without it the mesh pressed against the zip pretty hard...

Title: Re: Prinnting Polo's
Post by: kingscreen on February 22, 2016, 07:08:27 PM

We use these. Works great.

Title: Re: Prinnting Polo's
Post by: TCT on February 23, 2016, 08:54:14 AM

Quote from: kingscreen on February 22, 2016, 07:08:27 PM

We use these. Works great.

Same thing we do.

Title: Re: Prinnting Polo's
Post by: 3Deep on February 23, 2016, 10:45:12 AM

Same here as well split squeegee, but I did went one step further I took some coroplast sheets and cut slots down the middle, so the buttons would fall in, and then just use some pallet tape and taped them to the shirt boards.  They even took some flashing, not much but enough I could hit a second color with no problem, but laying them on the regular pallet with the split squeegee works just as well.

Title: Re: Prinnting Polo's
Post by: Lizard on February 23, 2016, 09:15:34 PM

Most of the polos we print are poly and the buttons are smooth and rounded so we just run tape down the center of the (bottom) screen and print with a good bit of squeegee angle. Never have an issue.

Title: Re: Prinnting Polo's
Post by: tonypep on February 24, 2016, 12:58:50 PM

My friends Lenny, Mitzi, and Lenny over at Action have a placket platen designed for just this FYI

Title: Re: Prinnting Polo's
Post by: DCSP John on February 24, 2016, 03:17:06 PM

Polos are not going anywhere. We print our fair share here.
We purchased a  set of ten polos boards from Action a long time ago. Not cheap, but worth
their weight in gold. We actually used an angle grinder to notch out
another 2 inches on each board. This way we run pocket prints on zippies with ease.
We could have asked Action to cut the platten section deeper, bought didn't think
of it when we bought them.

 
- John

Title: Re: Prinnting Polo's
Post by: tonypep on February 24, 2016, 03:23:09 PM

Quote from: tonypep on February 24, 2016, 12:58:50 PM

My friends Lenny, Mitzi, and Lenny over at Action have a placket platen designed for just this FYI

Doubled up on Lenny, left out Erik. Sorry guys!