The ability to quickly and accurately find stored job components gives screen printers a very important competitive advantage. But when small shops evolve into larger businesses,...
Don’t Dip! By Gary M. Valasek, ICC Chemicals Dip tanks sound like an easy way to clean screens. You just soak screens in a tank of...
Dot gain for textile printers is an ongoing battle because there are so many factors that come into play. Rare is the garment screen printer that...
By Fernando Zicarelli, Dynamesh Inc.
Identifying and implementing standard operating procedures in the screenmaking department is easy. But maintaining those standards, especially when production picks up, is quite difficult. Failure to...
Increasing competition from other printing methods in this uncertain economy puts a lot of pressure on us to do quality work, deliver it to clients on...
The ability to create high-quality color separations is essential for successful multicolor garment printing, whether your shop uses a manual press or a fleet of automatics....
One of the biggest frustrations in dealing with color reproduction is understanding what the client really wants. Serious financial consequences result from miscommunication and misunderstanding, but...
Screen printers the world over battle with the ubiquitous pinhole, a stencil defect that reduces production efficiency, profitability, and print quality. Printers who are continuously plagued...
Last month, we considered the conditions and procedural errors in screenmaking that can lead to obvious pinholes before screens ever leave the screenroom. But even if...