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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Stinkhorn Press on January 25, 2013, 04:05:17 PM
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Inquiring minds what to know.
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I prefer pallet but I really don't care that much about it. I just think pallet sounds better but I may be in the minority on that.
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It has been called a platen well before palette, platen is really the correct term but I bet it has been confused with the more common sounding palette and people simply started calling it that.
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Pallet, Platen, Palette, Shirt board, shirt holder, shirt jigs - call it what you like. I always liked Pallet! We've gone with that one since day one.
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action has spoken...therefor it must be.
I started calling it pallet, now I call it both.
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Here we refer to it as...
all together now...
The Shirt Board
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I call them pallets when they are off the press and shirt boarts when they are on the press. Why? You don't put shirts on the when they are off the press.
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When you add an image on it with ink, It's pallet. Like a artist paint pallet. :)
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I call them pallets when they are off the press and shirt boarts when they are on the press. Why? You don't put shirts on the when they are off the press.
Actually, I have been known to do just that to illustrate why a 12" design doesn't fit on my 11" youth boards!
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Everyone I work with calls them pallets. I call them platens.
Potato or Potatoe.
In Seattle it is called Manny's or Rainier. In New Orleans it is called Dixie or Abita. In Australia it is called Fosters...
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I call 'em Frank, and blame all my misprints on him.
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Platens. Pallets are the skids big shipments of product comes in on and require a pallet jack to move them off the truck into the shop.
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If "pallet" is good enough for Action engineering... it's good enough for me.
http://www.actionengineering.com/cat-24-1-481/MR_Style.htm (http://www.actionengineering.com/cat-24-1-481/MR_Style.htm)
I would call it a "platen" if was heated... like a heat press surface.
http://hotronix.com/shop-online/optional-platens/clam-heat-press-platens (http://hotronix.com/shop-online/optional-platens/clam-heat-press-platens)
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It has been called a platen well before palette, platen is really the correct term but I bet it has been confused with the more common sounding palette and people simply started calling it that.
Agreed. On a letterpress, the platen is the surface the paper being printed is placed on. Not sure where pallet came from, but I hear that more often than platen.
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It's not really that much of a stretch to see how it evolved to often be used as a shirt board
Definition of PALLET
1: a wooden flat-bladed instrument
2: a lever or surface in a timepiece that receives an impulse from the escapement wheel and imparts motion to a balance or pendulum
3: a portable platform for handling, storing, or moving materials and packages (as in warehouses, factories, or vehicles)
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I'm team platen.
As mentioned above, from the proper name of the print surface on a letterpress machine.
But, I'll admit that's almost as much as a stretch as the similarity to a pallet or a palette.
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The issue we have here is no one knows whether it's pronounced Plaht•en (as in cat) or Plate•on (as in hate).
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The former. "cat" like the Platte river with "in" on the end.
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Mississippi John Hurt Make Me a Pallet on the Floor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39RBm4tH9cA#)
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My opinion is Yes...
Steve