I'm considering buying instructions for creating a micro-registration system for a non-micro press (budgeting purposes). It requires you to have a press with rear clamps only. No side clamp system. I'm a newbie of course, so looking at this pick of a potential press, I can't determine whether this is considered a rear clamping system or not. Here is the link to the pic below. Please Help
That is a rear clamp press. It looks like the clamp area may be welded on so I'd be real sure that this micro registration retro fit that your talking about will work with this press. Our press has the clamp part bolted on and I can switch from side clamps to rear clamps if I wanted. I don't think thats the case with that press your looking at.
This is a low end press, which probably cannot be upgraded to micro registration. Check with the supplier just to make sure before you invest the money.
I'll probably have to start a new thread asking to see if anyone else on this board has used this guy's system for enabling micro inexpensively....If it turns out that it's a go, then it would really be a cost saver, and time saver for the above 4X2, non-micro reg unit I'm interested in located here: 4 Color 2 Station Table Top Screen Printing Press
With the press you are looking at if you run the same sized frames for most of your prints (although you could cheaply set up a few of the following for different size frames) you could make a fairly easy micro registration system.
PARTS: a few short lengths of, preferably steel c channel (wider opening than your frames and a little longer to allow for registration)
Short length of steel bar (probably best to use square, ideally fit inside channel, just)
4 Thumbscrews
The steel can probably be changed for alloy if you can't weld/have access to someone who can (most small engineering shops would weld this up for a carton of beer if you rock up with the parts cut and ready to go) You can usually buy the steel cut to length from a steel yard.
Then you weld them together with the steel bar across the bottom between the two sections of 'c' channel (opening facing inwards)
The steel bar clamps in to your current press clamps and the 'c' channel gets drilled and ideally tapped to take the thumbscrews. Your screen frame is now clamped on the sides instead of the bottom/top.
For left/right adjustment you alter the position of the "bar" in your press clamps, up/down is adjusted by the sliding your screen frame up/down the 'c' channel. The clamps then lock it in place.
I'll attempt to draw a pic and post it otherwise if someone else can explain it better please feel free!
Unless Neil has changed them, I bought his plans a couple of years ago. I never had the chance to use them since I bought the press I'm using now very soon afterwards, but it's simple, CHEAP, and I think it would actually work pretty well. You'll kick yourself for not thinking this up on you own, it's that simple. Unless there's something to the design that I can't see that would hinder its use successfully, it would sure beat trying to register screens with a hammer.
That's no problem, It works for me because I use all the same screen sizes so only made one. If anyone else wants to add to it or explain it better please feel free to give it a shot!
I have the same press. I don't use it anymore. If this works please let us know. I might try it on that old press at tournaments, shows, and stuff when I need something portable.
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