For those that dont know. tableline is a way to print multi color simplified .

check out the following video to see how it works .

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_FbV2iXztU[/media]

 

Looks very neat Ryan... correct me if I am wrong, the platen has no support underneath?

 

no it doesnt and i can tell now that is going to be the last step in getting this thing rolling . I have an idea in the works right now for a fix .

 

now I just need to get ghostscript working right on linux .

 

I'm not sure how the frame fits and is aligned to the back board. Do you have any pictures of that? I have seen other table printers set-ups. Your is very inventive!

Thanks Eric

 

They're traditional line table setup.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXq8KAuhPcw&feature=related[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFmINbxYVbY&feature=related[/media]

 

Ill upload pictures tonight . pls know this isnt done . it needs bracing on the bottom . Ill take shots later tonight of what I got worked up so far for you though .

I got most of the kinks worked out with getting designs flowing yet got hung up installing CS5 in My virtual Machine but I think I gonna give up on that and do some designs in gimp since I now have GV in linux working good .

stay tuned Ill get those photos up here in a bit .

 

oh ok taking some pictures now . its a pipe I found in the trash cut down and I tapped the hole to except the machine screw in it .I will be using the eye-hooks from the frame bottom to the l-angle to keep that in check .

Im working on designs now and hope to have braces kinida like the video Brojames posted were there is only one platen . A type of cross brace support . Stay tuned .I promise to have the thread updated with what I make it might just take a week or two .

 

Ok , finally got ghostview/ghostscript working and printing in Debian linux from GIMP . Im laying down so much ink that its smearing now on nonwaterproof R-Film . I found that there are two to three (eew) hairs in the rollers dragging through the thick ink which I cleaned out just now. Its now takes a very long time to dry with all the ink.looks like Im well on my way to start printing here very soon .Read about how I got GV to work with linux at the following link . http://www.t-shirtforums.com/screen-printing/t167551.html

 

you just use GSView(ghostview), the GUI of ghostscript

 

Im using GV . Already got it working .

I printed a transparency last night and its still not dry this morning while my other regular prints or actually dry . Im gonna try the unidirectional switch now to see if that might help.

 

On what substrate are you printing on?

 

I am printing on R-Film Non-waterproof film .

 

Have you seen the Separator+ plugin for GIMP yet? Makes color separations automatically. Google it.

 

It separates into channels but not halftone unless I missed it.

 

does ghostview allow you to adjust ink density and uni or bidirectional printing? I though ghost view/ghost script was just a way to print halftones without a postscript printer.. If this is the case I'm very intrigued as I don't care so much for the halftones as much as I care about ink density.
Does it give the ability to print from multiple cartridges or would you need to change your black in your software(corel, illustrator, photoshop,etc) before creating your post script file???

 

It is just a GUI to view the file before printing.

I don't think you can save ink density information in a file for ghostview to access before printing. You can adjust the contrast and saturation before saving the file though. you can also try gutenprint for GIMP windows. You can adjust ink density oin gutenprint. If you know a little programming you can even tweak the xml file for even denser black.