Pwear

Quote: Originally Posted by jboitcet Do you mind giving us an update on how your business is going? Are you still printing on the weekend? Did you get transfers down (lick the art of transfers)? I'm dying to know. It's like a soap opera.

That's actually my roomate - he's still printing over the weekends, but has adopted my method of using Vinyl over the screens that we make with a Roland GX-24 cutter, which allows screens to be made much faster and cheaper than using emulsion. So the orders have increased but the production time has decreased so for now he's still ok printing on just the weekends.

I print a few days out of the week and also use Vinyl to make most of my screens instead of emulsion - very accurate registration, half the work and cleaning the screen is as simple as washing off the ink and pulling the vinyl. Of course we can't keep screens "exposed" and use them over and over again, but for medium sized operations like ours it works perfectly. We're not endlessly coating/exposing/reclaiming screens, and we don't have to keep 200+ screens in inventory because the time it takes to clear a screen and set it up for a new design is minimal. For high detail work we use emulsion still, but for most of our stuff, especially the stuff I sell on my site, vinyl works great.

Just my .02

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