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Thanks from Will
Thanks everyone thats a warm welcome! It Is mainly vinyl on here but I plan to start vinyl cutting soon & hey we all know that sometimes theres no other way but screenprint. Anyway Im 30 years old but have been working in screen since saturday jobs during school & full time from school leaving-I love the medium & always try to approach difficult substrates or tricky images from a technical & openminded viewpoint. If anyone has an unusual or tricky job Id love to hear about it & discuss the best way to get the best out of the job. I will post some of my work just as soon as I get this job off the press….
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Here’s one for you will, I have a customer who sometimes requires a cemicircular component printed. It tends to be a few (6 ish) off not hundreds.
Is there any way i can print these with out the expense of a pad printer or a cylindrical press??? I’ve tried many things from suspending the screen from two rods so the screen can rotate, all without much luck, it’s very hit and miss.
Any ideas?!?
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Hello Lorraine
Well it sounds like you need a mug printing jig; small flat screen, object is rotated below it as the screen moves across it in sync. squeegee stays still. but what is the object & what size & how many colours required? Sounds like a very expensive job given the time required to set up for the amount of prints… the words Outsource to someone with a tampo spring to mind-I have printed the bottoms of skateboard decks before, which involved curved screens with low (sub 6nm) screen tensions & curved soft squeegees but for all the fannying about the margins werent there. Anyway, let me know the actual job parameters and ill think again…. theres a nice manual pad machine with a mug printing attachment called Printa…I think, Ill look at work tomorrow & find out who distributes it…
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Hi Will,
sounds like you know your stuff ! I know hardly anything about screening so I’m easliy impressed, lol
where abouts in Surrey are you ? I live in Woking and work in Bagshot.
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hi will your very welcome mate.. im spotted this post but im sure i must have welcomed you in another post.. 😕
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Yes I work in Shalford just outside Guildford, Im in the Guildford Yellow Pages. So what do you do in Bagshot then? Like I have said elsewhere on the boards I am keen to look at getting a cutter, so do you have any advice on a good start-up model? Dangerous question really-once I had a very tough job in which required custom screens to do successfully, and on asking my screen-stretcher if he had any good advice he told me the best thing | could do would be to get a proper job!
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Iive been to Shalford, used to work in Guildford, then later on in Godalming for an old signwriter called John Clarke, have you heard of him ?
We’re general signmakers, doing mainly vinyl work but we do do a bit of traditional signwriting and the like.
I can’t realy recommend a start up plotter cos the first one I bought was an envision 375 at around £8k, we also have a fastrack 1300 plotter which is a great machine, I think you can get them for about £3,300 these days, I cant remember what our other plotter is, but it’s black and has an opus system, we’ve only just got it with our mimaki. We also have an edge 2 but hardly use it anymore as the mimaki has taken over most of it’s work.
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