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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Dottonedan on February 07, 2017, 01:12:04 PM
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I have two suppliers we use and neither seem to carry these. Suggestions?
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I use cake spatulas, but Spot Color lists these
http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/ (http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/)
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I use cake spatulas, but Spot Color lists these
[url]http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/[/url] ([url]http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/[/url])
Beat me to it ;D
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I use cake spatulas, but Spot Color lists these
[url]http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/[/url] ([url]http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/[/url])
Beat me to it ;D
And I even had to take the time to confirm it!
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we use the cardboard inserts from the inside of the baseball caps from our embroidery dept.
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I also use spatulas, but second option is TexSource. https://www.screenprintingsupply.com/Texsource-Ultimate-Clean-Up-Card_p_13212.html (https://www.screenprintingsupply.com/Texsource-Ultimate-Clean-Up-Card_p_13212.html) (TexSource offers a lower qty, but Spot Color has a better price on the big box.)
At my last shop, they ordered card stock & we cut them on a paper cutter. Of course, the labor paid for that likely made them more expensive than just ordering them ready to use.
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yeah, the ink cards are hella cheap honestly We don't use them for ink, just cleaning the emulsion from the scoop coater.
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I use cake spatulas, but Spot Color lists these
[url]http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/[/url] ([url]http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/[/url])
Beat me to it ;D
Hmmm. I just did a search on your site and nothing came up. THen bounced around and couldn't fine them. Musta not looked hard enough...or it's too hard to find byt name. Card. Ink Card, Clean up card. etc.
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I use all those free plastic and cardboard credit cards we get in the mail
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I use cake spatulas, but Spot Color lists these
[url]http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/[/url] ([url]http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/[/url])
Beat me to it ;D
Hmmm. I just did a search on your site and nothing came up. THen bounced around and couldn't fine them. Musta not looked hard enough...or it's too hard to find byt name. Card. Ink Card, Clean up card. etc.
http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/ (http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/)
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I use cake spatulas, but Spot Color lists these
[url]http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/[/url] ([url]http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/[/url])
Beat me to it ;D
Hmmm. I just did a search on your site and nothing came up. THen bounced around and couldn't fine them. Musta not looked hard enough...or it's too hard to find byt name. Card. Ink Card, Clean up card. etc.
That's weird?? When I use the search function I get them first, for all of those terms... I'm not sure what would cause them to not show up. Maybe some of the tech guys around here might know. Does the browser have anything to do with it?
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I get them from Graphic Solutions and usually bundle them with other supplies or vinyl for the free shipping
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I get coated card stock clean up cards from Ryonet. 1000 or so to a box. Use them for many things around the shop.
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I use cake spatulas, but Spot Color lists these
[url]http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/[/url] ([url]http://www.spotcolorsupply.com/ultimate-clean-up-cards/[/url])
Beat me to it ;D
Hmmm. I just did a search on your site and nothing came up. THen bounced around and couldn't fine them. Musta not looked hard enough...or it's too hard to find byt name. Card. Ink Card, Clean up card. etc.
That's weird?? When I use the search function I get them first, for all of those terms... I'm not sure what would cause them to not show up. Maybe some of the tech guys around here might know. Does the browser have anything to do with it?
Well, that's the thing see, I could not find a search feature on your site. again, prob. my bad. Had ta go fishing for myself and didn't see them until I got the link here.
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I use misprinted business cards. Got about 6000 or so still. Surely everyone has some of these going thru various trade printers.
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I personally HATE and I mean HATE using ink cards for ink. I prefer a metal putty knife with the edges rounded. I've had guys leave these cards in a gallon of ink before. What a mess.
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Same
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I get them from Graphic Solutions and usually bundle them with other supplies or vinyl for the free shipping
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We also offer free shipping $150.00+ ????
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I should have added, these cards are amazing for emulsion.
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for ink cleanup out of screens, 3" paint scrapers with the corners rounded. For other uses, we buy cardboard and cut it with our guillotine... If you don't have a guillotine, a large paper cutter will do just fine.
Steve
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I use misprinted business cards. Got about 6000 or so still. Surely everyone has some of these going thru various trade printers.
This is what we do as well...Had a misprint of 10,000 cards that luckily my supplier stood by and replaced so now we have 10,000 ink clean up cards for FREE although we typically use the spatulas to remove ink from the screens.
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I use a spatula to remove the ink from the screens but then keep a clean up card with each gallon of ink that I use to scrape the ink off the spatula. It's a lot easier and cleaner than just wiping the blade on the edge of the bucket. Then your lid gets messy, you grab it and get ink on your hands, etc.
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I stumbled across a gal who's husband prints plastic credit cards and gift cards.... I traded her some blank shirts for a couple thousand misprinted gift cards. These are stiff plastic ones and work great to remove ink from a 20x24 screen. I keep an empty bucket near the press to collect the dirty cards... then I put the bucket in a lab oven to cure them before throwing them in the trash.
I wish I'd kept her name for future needs.... but I think I'm good for several years.
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I use the metal putty knife paint scraper with rounded edges for white ink in the screen, but the ultimate clean up cards work fine for every other ink and emulsion and whatever else you could need a card for in your shop. Hard to justify cutting your own when the finished cards are like 2 cents each.
I use to buy blank credit cards from somewhere and they were like 4 cents each. I did like those a lot, but the cleanup cards work just as well and are easier to hold without getting ink or emulsion on you since they are bigger.
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We use spatulas from Spot Color Supply. They work great and you only need to buy them once!
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We also offer free shipping $150.00+ ????
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Good to know!
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Putty knife
Simply take some 400 grit sand paper and break the edge and the corners and you can use them forever and they clean up easy too.
mooseman
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I personally HATE and I mean HATE using ink cards for ink. I prefer a metal putty knife with the edges rounded. I've had guys leave these cards in a gallon of ink before. What a mess.
I was going to mention that but thought I was the only one disgusted by it. Plasticizer leaching into cardboard is gross.
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That doesnt happen unless you leave the cards in the ink for days though. I just clean and toss in about 5 minutes.
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That doesnt happen unless you leave the cards in the ink for days though. I just clean and toss in about 5 minutes.
The joys of having employees. No one wants to fess up either.
Also not a big fan of chucking any more waste than necessary.
The Shurloc Squeegee clean is the jam for cleaning Hyde plastic drywall knives.
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I get mine from Graphic Solutions Group . They are called inkin-cleancard. $46 for 1500. They have their purpose, they work good in the screen corners, and for gathering ink while printing and move it back in the path of the squeegee. But we use the spatula for cleaning when the job is finished.
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We use the Ultimate Clean up Card. We purchase locally...
http://www.nwgraphic.com/vsearch.php?id=ultimate%20clean%20up%20card (http://www.nwgraphic.com/vsearch.php?id=ultimate%20clean%20up%20card)
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I buy decks of playing cards from The Dollar Tree. Less than 2 cents a card.
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I buy decks of playing cards from The Dollar Tree. Less than 2 cents a card.
thats actually a pretty good idea!