Focus on Screen Printing
Virus Inks The changing role of the garment decorator
Screen Print World The screen print specialists
Screen Print World comprises of a team of dedicated specialists who are focused on helping and serving customers, from beginners to the advanced, helping them reach their full potential. With a full range of screen printing equipment and consumables available online, highlighted below are just three such products.
Kruzer Manual Screen Printing Press The Kruzer Manual Screen Printing Press is M&Rʼs most popular entry-level manual screen printing press, and it is available at an unbelievably affordable price. Built with M&Rʼs rugged construction and innovative design, Kruzer includes numerous proven design features, including tapered-roller-bearing-supported upper and lower carousels, a precise micro-registration system, machined centre shaft, and three-point pallet levelling system. M&Rʼs Kruzer manual press is offered in a six-colour/four- station model with screen holders and solid aluminium, low-profile, rubber-coated pallets as standard.
Virus brings print to life
Nowadays the garment decoration industry scene is extremely fragmented. The eco sustainable revolution of the fashion business has been defined a ʻchange of paradigmʼ that has made very fast progress during the last years with a speed and pervasiveness that took many professionals of the sector by surprise.
The brand of the apparel industry are more and more oriented towards ʻfast fashionʼ, a trend that accelerates the consumption time of the items of clothing (also due to the speed of the e-commerce nature) thus encouraging production patterns aimed to manufacture small lots in a short time.
The renewal of the proposals is very fast imposing a pace that is so different from the seasonal one to which we were used during the previous decades.
Shopping has turned into an impulsive act, the cycle of life of the clothing items has gotten shorter and consumers are offered the opportunity to choose among an almost infinite range of customised solutions. Nowadays, even considering the difficulties of a system that hasnʼt acquired the needed skills yet, for the most famous brands and the small innovative ones, the design of quality items of clothing goes together with the research of sustainable solutions able to reduce the impact on the environment and to speed the production time. The new scenarios donʼt affect only socially and culturally but they constantly impact the production change. The garment decorator is pushed by the brands to shorten production and delivery time of the products while the orders are more and more often about smaller print runs. Style variations and colours required increase including the most trendy special effects. Complex drawings and photographic images are by now regularly part of the clothing decoration and the printers are obliged to find technological, applicative, organisational solutions able to fulfill those needs. Sustainability, production speed and continuous experimentation can only be supported by a great mastery of the textile printing techniques and the use of high performing water-based inks.
The role of the textile printer will change more and more from executor to planning partner to customise the clothing item within slim and sustainable productive logics.
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M&R Diamondback E Automatic Screen Printing Press M&Rʼs most affordable automatic textile screen printing press, the Diamondback E, has all the standard features you would expect to find on higher-end presses at twice the price. Electric print heads provide smooth consistent print carriage travel, while the pneumatic squeegee pressure regulators create even pressure across the print surface. The quick-set front and rear print carriage stops help to further optimize production speeds. Side frame holders provide quick screen loading/unloading, while squeegee/ floodbar air locks and tool- free angle adjustments further speed press set-up. High-resolution touch screen control panel with easy-to-use, icon-based logic and built-in tutorial screens. This automatic press is available in six, eight or 10 colours models.
Cleaning and reclaiming screens
Reclaiming is the art of striping the stencil and emulsion from your screen in order to create a new design and start the printing process again without using an extra screen. Screen Print World stocks a vast selection of screen cleaning and reclamation equipment and products for this process including dip tanks and eco-friendly chemicals. Franmar is a range of soy bean based cleaning products. Franmar is a world renowned brand that creates effective, economical, and safe product lines that are all developed to benefit users and their environment. From screen washes and emulsion removers to stain removers and degreasers. The Franmar range of cleaning products is set to grow in the UK with more and more printers looking for eco-friendly alternatives.
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Franmar’s plastisol ink remover
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