Screen Printing Mag

[AJLA]

Me too Tom. I,ve just received some samples today to make some possies up on Friday as i'm away tmorrow and i'm a bit jittery about it all. Luckily this is one area that my dad has taken quite an interest in, he should be retired really but lucky for me this has kept him in action Good ole dad !

I will let you know..

By the way John, the company you gave me a link to "Folex" provided us with a very generous and impressive pack of various items suitable for my Epson 7600 which is great so we can now experiment with the possies using different methods.

[Ian M]

I'm now completely afraid of screenprinting.

Tom, never go look at something like a fully automatic Svecia cylinder press then.

I worked at a screen printers after leaving school & they had one which was an amazing piece of kit but, boy when it went wrong now & again did it go wrong.

Ian

[John G]

Never worked on one but have seen many in action, especially the auto flatbed type where the bed comes shooting out - plenty of things to go wrong there with all the moving parts and timings etc.

John

[Ian M]

Never worked on one but have seen many in action, especially the auto flatbed type where the bed comes shooting out - plenty of things to go wrong there with all the moving parts and timings etc.

John

John, the Svecia's were ultra reliable & never broke down as they are so well designed. Some similar looking machines used to go wrong big time & a couple of the copies I worked on had a tendency for a nut & bolt to drop off the vacum unit piston & straight into the casing where the fan was. On each occasion when we took the fan casing apart you would find all the small fan blades in a pile at the bottom I used to then put a piece of mesh over the opening to stop it happening again which it did.

The problem we had with the fully automatic Svecia cylinder press was the fork lift driver. On a few occasions he backed the fork lift into the auto stacker at the end of the machine & this meant it moved backwards towards the driers. The belts of the auto stacker would then rub against the driers belt & make go into reverse which, meant that all the material in the drier would then start heading back to the printer very quickly. You can imagine the mess it made & it usually meant a ripped screen & ink everywhere. I have to admit the first time it happend we were all scratching our heads why the drier suddenly went into reverse.

Ian