Thinking of oneself as a manufacturer of screen printing rather than as a screen printer can be the conceptual key to standardizing and ultimately upgrading production....
The 2009 SGIA Expo welcomed thousands of visitors at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, October 7-9. At the annual convention and exhibition...
Printing has always relied on various forms of proofing to predict what an image will look like after it prints on a specific press. These proofing...
Take a walk through any large grocery store, mega-mart or shopping mall, and you are likely to see examples of printed and formed plastic used as...
The most common mistake made in pad printing is to change several variables in the process at once. To know what to avoid, we should first...
Most companies would cringe at the thought of spending six or seven figures on new equipment and product development during a recession. Not Screenprint/Dow. In fact,...
Simulated-process reproduction offers so many advantages compared to other methods, particularly the fundamentally unstable four-color process, that there is really not much of an argument anymore...
As the foundation of the screen-printing process, screen mesh deserves some careful study if you want to optimize the quality of your prints. Understanding the makeup...
What’s the real hang-up when it comes to producing separations? Those who say consistency are the ones who settle into a specific method that they feel...
So big, it only occurs once every four years. That’s a good way to sum up Drupa, the quadrennial gathering of the commercial printing industry in...