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Just like any purchase the job starts
with you, the customer. Whether you need something for your business,
organization, school, or family function we will work with you
to develop and refine your ideas in order to produce a quality
screen printed product. To help you understand the screen printing
process and enhance our business relationship we have put together
a description of the steps involved in the process. |
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Design Creation - The first thing
that we need before we can screen print is a design. This design
can begin as a sketch or can be the combination of various clip
art pictures and text. Actually we usually produce a number of
different designs that we present to out customers. After the
customer has picked a design he or she likes it then needs to
be color separated so that we can create a screen for each color
in the design. |
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Film Production - Once we have
suitable artwork we then create a film positive. Currently we
use two methods for creating these positives. One is by taking
a picture of the artwork with a camera which produces a positive
which looks like a transparency used with overhead projectors.
The other method is to print the design right out of the printer
onto a special paper called vellum. Once we have our film positives
we can then create our screens. |
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Screen Creation - Screen creation
actually begins long before we even have our film positives ready.
The first thing that we do is take a screen which has a very
fine mesh fabric attached and apply a special light sensitive
material called emulsion. The screen is then placed in a dark
cabinet so that the emulsion can dry. Once the emulsion is dry
we can then finish the screen creation process. We take our positive
and place it on the screen and put the screen in a special light
exposing unit. When exposed to the light the emulsion that is
not covered by the black areas of the positive become hard. Once
the screen has been exposed for the proper amount of time it
is removed from the light unit and is then washed so that the
soft emulsion can be removed exposing the mesh holes. We then
let the screen dry and we are ready to set the screen up on the
press. |
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Press Set-up - Once we have
good quality screens containing the image of our customers designs
we are then ready to set them up on our press. If the design
involves multiple colors we set each screen at one of the stations
and register each one so that each color of the design lines
up properly. Once we have all of our screens registered we place
ink on each screen and run a test print on a test square. If
the test print is satisfactory we are ready to run the job. |
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Step 5 |
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Printing -
If our artwork, screens,
and press set-up is good the printing is the easy part. Each
garment is placed on one of the stations of the rotary press
and each color of the design is applied. After all of the colors
are applied the garment is removed and places on a conveyor dryer
so that the ink can be cured. Once cured, the garments are boxed
and are ready for delivery. |
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Screen Printing USA offers a large selection of screen printed and embroidered products.
To speak to someone about
screen printing or embroidery call 717-564-7464 between the hours of 7:30AM(EST) and 5:00PM(EST) Monday thru Friday.
We have an experienced staff availiable to answer
immediate questions about our custom screen printing and embroidery services and products.
You
can also email salesinfo@withyourlogo.com.
Thank
you for visiting Screen Printing USA, and please bookmark Screen Printing USA
P.S.
We love producing unique and exciting screen printed and embroidered products for our customers.
If you have a special project, fundraiser, or event coming up we will work with you 110% to make sure your screen printed
and embroidered products help make it a success. | |
