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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: 3Deep on March 26, 2013, 04:02:18 PM
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Ok I want to print some plackets on my auto, How do you guys do it, and now here is my dumb idea of using what I got, I thinking about cutting a slot in one of my old squeegees and a matching slot in on of my old flood bars to move over the buttons. I thought about cutting them down to half, but the choppers pressure would be half cocked...trying to do this without doing anything to pallets.
Darryl
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Sleeve pallets unless you need to print both sides. If you do, cut a squeegee but
you shouldn't need to cut floodbars unless there's something I don't know about
Anatol's.
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Ebscreen, I don't have sleeve pallets( would like to have some), I want to try and work with the pallets I have now and the reason I want to cut a slot in the flood bar is the flood bar would catch on the buttons same as the squeegee would do. With the slots I thinking you could print plackets on a flat pallet as you would a teeshirt.
Darryl
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I had thought most machines flood with the tables down leaving clearance for a placket.
That's what I get for assuming!
Stranger things have been done, but that's gonna be real hard on your mesh.
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Ebscreen your right!!!!! I was thinking way to dam much....I'm good I'll cut the slot on squeegee and use a not so tight screen... might work might not or it's back to the manual press.
Darryl
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Or cut the area for the placket out of an old platen.
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Or, if it's easy to raise your off contact, build up the area next to the high seams and buttons.
I have pieces of dense foam sheets and neoprene and such for these and other problem garments.
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I cut a slot in my squeegee a 70 duro and low and behold it's working, the screen is about a 13 to 14 newton screen and I put blue tape down the middle to keep the buttons from wearing on the screen...the sample prints look great!!! this will work for now until I get the correct set up.
Darryl
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Or, if it's easy to raise your off contact, build up the area next to the high seams and buttons.
I have pieces of dense foam sheets and neoprene and such for these and other problem garments.
I like this idea. I've seen printers do this for full and 1/4 zip hoodies and pull-overs.
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I too notched a squeegee for this purpose. Works great.
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Frog the only problem I have with that is, I'd have to do that on eight pallets, but some thing to think about and build to slap on the pallets when I'm doing plackets. What I did today worked out fine for this job.
Darryl
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I'm just a little concerned of a break-through from the buttons, even with a short squeegee. Run some tape there for a little reinforcement.
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We have had the buttons pop a screen. But that was before we cut a squeegee like you guys are talking about. As far as flooding, we just put a mess if ink in and raised the flood bar. I kind of remember somewhere that made specialty squeegee and flood bar for this, probably Action.
The sleeve boards are a good idea also, never thought of that. We actually have 4 (if I remember correctly) extra sleeve boards for anatol, if you are interested. Probably let them go for a song....
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Beat ya to that Frog, but thanks for the advice anyway, printing plackets on my manual just takes to long since I only have one pallet set up for it, printing on the auto today took only a half hour.
Darryl
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We tape a piece of cardboard on the back of the screen where the buttons hit and use a short squeegee
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How about a foam top to the platen? And then notch the blade if needed.
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I shim up the screen and use little pocket sized chunks of nitrile tacked on if we are doing a bunch and want to do them on the auto.
Taping the back where the buttons hit has kept me out of trouble, although I have had wear there anyway.
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Or, if it's easy to raise your off contact, build up the area next to the high seams and buttons.
I have pieces of dense foam sheets and neoprene and such for these and other problem garments.
This is what we do; we have 16 - 5x5 aluminum plates that we tack down to the main plate, raising the print surface on the left (or right, whichever). Adjust your squeegee to the proper height and print. Maybe you could put 3 strips of masking tape on the screen where it would ride over the buttons for that little extra protection.
Steve
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How many of these are you needing to do??
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We use hard board (kind of like peg board without the holes). Cut them in 5 wide by 16 long. A whole set will cost a few bucks. Stick them down with spray tack and you are good to go. Adjust your chopper stop on the non printing side so the squeegee prints flat on the print side. We have had the same boards for years.
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This was the first time I did plackets on the auto, you guys have some good ideas, when I get time I'm going to work on something.
Darryl
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Or, if it's easy to raise your off contact, build up the area next to the high seams and buttons.
I have pieces of dense foam sheets and neoprene and such for these and other problem garments.
This is what we do; we have 16 - 5x5 aluminum plates that we tack down to the main plate, raising the print surface on the left (or right, whichever). Adjust your squeegee to the proper height and print. Maybe you could put 3 strips of masking tape on the screen where it would ride over the buttons for that little extra protection.
Steve
Oh, that's what we do to. I have a stack of rectangles of rubber and yep, just tack 'em on there and pull off when done.
I thought there was a special pain in the butt issue here. ^do this Daryl!^ If you raise the print area up and leave the buttons and such below your problems are solved.
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We use shoe sole material...About 1/4" thick...BITCH to cut into shape (About an inch larger than graphic) Tack down to platens, and roll! Raises the printing surface proud of plackets, pockets, buttons, etc.