Setting
Up the Screens for Printing
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A
Manual screen printing press
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After
making and exposing our screens, We need to prep the
printing press for printing.
We
do this by setting each screen (color) into the press
heads (a six color press has six printing heads).
We will set them in order by color, light colors first
in sequence to the darkest color, usually black last.
We
need to align each print color to the other to ensure
correct registration throughout the printing process.
We
then add ink colors to the screens and then squeegees
to the screen print heads. The squeegees will move
across the screen to push the ink through and onto
the T-shirt.
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