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Overview of Sublimation Printing

Sublimation refers to the physical process through which a material changes from a solid to a gas without first becoming a liquid. It enables image reproduction on any flexible or rigid substrate with a receptive surface that can withstand the amount of heat, pressure and dwell time necessary for image …

How To Make Plastisol Heat Transfers

Make the Best Mesh Choices for the Best Process Color

The greatest deterent to profit in the screen shop is downtime and the greates cause of downtime is all too often the screen.

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Screen Preparation – A Cornerstone for Successful Screen Printing

A guide to proper mesh preparation including clear explanations for the wide range of mesh preparation products and chemicals.

Maximize Your Screen Printing Quality and Profits – Part Two

Part 2 of a 3-part series analyzing acceptable methods commonly used to sharpen a squeegee.

Correct Exposure Time of Stencil and Equipment Limitations

Most problems that involve the screen or stencil are related to exposure. Here are doe tips on how you can figure out correct exposure time and get the quality you want.

Linearization of the Imaging Process

Linearization of the halftone process is a basic building block of color reproduction. It is a way of saying the production process follows a linear, predictable flow from start to finish. The process involves identifying variance at each step, and correcting for the variance.

Maximize Your Screen Printing Quality and Profits – Part One

Part 1 of a 3-part series analyzing acceptable methods commonly used to sharpen a squeegee.

Precision Process Tools for Screen Printers – Part One

Screen printing generally has the largest number of critical variables due to the number of parameters that need to be measured and tracked. Here are some of the key precision tools printers use to help them to be repeatable and faster, all while producing higher quality prints.