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Business KB
- Are You Burning Money?
- Argument of Lack of Evidence
- Customer Complaints About Cost
- Don't Skimp on Emulsion Cost
- Donut Probe with IR Dryer
- Effective Organization
- Equipment Advice for a Manual Start Up
- Expanding Your Product Line
- Handling Errors
- How Do You Base Your Pricing?
- How to Judge the Quality of Screenprinting
- Less Expensive Emulsion Remover
- Line Tables vs a Rotary Press
- Minimum Quantity
- Misinformation and Disinformation
- Misprints and Rejects
- Organizing Orders / Shop Communication
- Pipe Recommendations for Compressed Air
- Ridding the Shop of Lint
- Safe, Natural Shop Cleaner
- Spoilage
- The Heartbeat of Your Business
- The Science of Success
- What's Your NAICS Number?
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Marketing and Sales KB
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Art and Design KB
- Defining a Color
- Detail on 100/54 Mesh
- Drying Emulsion Before Exposure
- Film Positive
- Gradient
- Halftone Formula is Unreliable
- How to Judge the Quality of Screenprinting
- Is Pantone a Fail-Proof System for Screenprinters?
- Magnifying Inspection Tools
- Mesh Resolution vs Mesh Count
- Misinformation and Disinformation
- Organizing Orders / Shop Communication
- Register Marks
- Should vertical lettering read up or down
- Veil
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Screenmaking KB
- 4-Color Process
- 7 Rules for Printing Blue Ink
- Abrading Mesh
- Achieving Resolution with Coarse Mesh
- Bar Pressure Unit
- Coating in Ordinary Room Light
- Coating Mesh With Direct Emulsion
- Considering Stencil Thickness
- Decreasing Exposure Times
- Detail on 100/54 Mesh
- Determining Stencil Exposure
- Developing Stencils Outdoors
- Difference Between Dyed and Undyed Mesh
- Don't Skimp on Emulsion Cost
- Drain Safe Emulsion Removers
- Drying Emulsion Before Exposure
- Dyed versus Undyed Mesh
- Emulsion
- Emulsion Darker in the Middle of the Screen?
- Emulsion Remover
- Equipment Advice for a Manual Start Up
- Extending the Life Span of Emulsion
- Gradient
- Halftone Formula is Unreliable
- How to Remove Glue Residue
- Identifying Stencil Overexposure
- Identifying Stencil Underexposure
- Ink Staining
- Ink Thickness
- LED Exposure Lamps
- Magnifying Inspection Tools
- Measuring Stencil Thickness
- Measuring with a Microscope Reticle
- Mesh
- Mesh Attachment to Frame History
- Mesh Resolution vs Mesh Count
- Mesh Tension Meter
- Mesh Weave
- Misinformation and Disinformation
- OBSNAP Profilometer - Surface Roughness Tester
- Off-Contact and Mesh Count
- Organizing Orders / Shop Communication
- Polymerization
- Printing Capabilities Testing
- Printing Detail on Rough Surfaces
- Printing Glitter
- Proper Emulsion Drying
- Reclaiming
- Register Marks
- Replacement of UV Lamps
- Resolving Registration Problems
- ROI on DTS (Computer to Screen)
- Sawtooth
- Screen
- Shore A Hardness of Squeegees
- Slime Got You Down?
- Stencil Exposure Problems
- Tempered Glass Does Not Restrict UV Transmission
- Tensioning Mesh on a Bias
- Tequipment Profilometer - Surface Roughness Tester
- The Greatest Waste in Screenmaking
- The Importance of EOMR
- The Myth of Post-Exposure
- There is No S-Thread Mesh
- Thread Counter
- Tips on Foil Inks
- Use of UV Insect Lamps for Exposure
- Using a Fan to Dry Emulsion is a Myth
- Viscosity
- What Are Black Lights?
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Ink and Coatings KB
- "Green" or "Eco-Friendly" inks
- 7 Rules for Printing Blue Ink
- Achieving Opacity on Textiles
- Defining a Color
- Equipment Advice for a Manual Start Up
- Forced-Air Flash
- How to Use NyloBond
- Hydrochromic Effect
- Incorrect Gel of Underbase
- Ink Climbing the Squeegee
- Ink Ghosting on Printed Substrates
- Ink Staining
- Inks Should Be Tested
- Is it Ink or Paint?
- Is Pantone a Fail-Proof System for Screenprinters?
- Magnifying Inspection Tools
- Migration vs Bleeding
- Misinformation and Disinformation
- Off-Contact and Mesh Count
- Organizing Orders / Shop Communication
- Physics of the Print Stroke on Ink Deposit
- Pigment
- Printing Detail on Rough Surfaces
- Printing Glitter
- Printing with Permaset Inks
- Reliable Opaque Ink
- Screenprinting of Fragrances
- Silver as a Conductive
- Small Particles of Plastisol Ink in Mesh
- Sublimation
- There Are No RFU Inks
- There is No Universal Ink
- Thinning or Thickening Plastisol Ink
- Thixotrophy
- Tips on Foil Inks
- TQC Wet Film Thickness Gauge
- Veil
- Viscosity
- What Happens when Plastisol is Cured or Not
- Why Discharge Does Not Produce White Fabric
- Why Plastisol Cracks
- Why So Many Different White Inks for Textiles
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Pre-Press KB
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Press Parameters KB
- Considering Stencil Thickness
- Equipment Advice for a Manual Start Up
- Fill Blade, Squeegee, and Ink Transfer
- Ink Climbing the Squeegee
- Misinformation and Disinformation
- Off-Contact and Mesh Count
- Organizing Orders / Shop Communication
- Oversized Prints on a Manual Press
- Platen Rubber Replacement
- Pre-drying
- Print Pressure
- Printing Detail on Rough Surfaces
- Registration Variables
- Resolving Registration Problems
- Safety Sleeves for Springs
- Serilor Squeegee Edge Polisher
- Shore A Hardness of Squeegees
- Squeegee
- Squeegee Angle
- To Feather or Sharpen a Squeegee
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Press Production KB
- 4-Color Process
- 7 Rules for Printing Blue Ink
- Achieving Resolution with Coarse Mesh
- Blaming is not Resolving
- Considering Stencil Thickness
- Difference in Ink Distribution From Side to Side
- Drying Emulsion Before Exposure
- Dwell Time
- Equipment Advice for a Manual Start Up
- Flash Gel Unit
- Forced-Air Flash
- Handling Errors
- How to Judge the Quality of Screenprinting
- Identifying Stencil Underexposure
- Incorrect Gel of Underbase
- Ink Climbing the Squeegee
- Ink Staining
- Ink Thickness
- Line Tables vs a Rotary Press
- Minimum Quantity
- Misinformation and Disinformation
- Off-Contact and Mesh Count
- Organizing Orders / Shop Communication
- Oversized Prints on a Manual Press
- Physics of the Print Stroke on Ink Deposit
- Pigment
- Platen Rubber Replacement
- Pre-drying
- Print Pressure
- Printing Compressible Fabrics
- Printing Detail on Rough Surfaces
- Printing with Permaset Inks
- Register Marks
- Resolving Registration Problems
- Serilor Squeegee Edge Polisher
- Squeegee Flex is Poisson
- Squeegee Hardness
- Stop Stretching for Cure Test!
- Sublimation
- Substrate
- The Importance of EOMR
- Tips on Foil Inks
- Transfer
- Veil
- Why Discharge Does Not Produce White Fabric
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Curing and Drying KB
- Donut Probe with IR Dryer
- Equipment Advice for a Manual Start Up
- Flash Gel Unit
- Gas versus Infrared Dryer
- How Altitude Affects Temperature
- How is Temperature Defined
- Incorrect Gel of Underbase
- Ink Ghosting on Printed Substrates
- Inks Should Be Tested
- Misinformation and Disinformation
- Organizing Orders / Shop Communication
- Polymerization
- Pre-drying
- Spare Parts for Expert and Albatross Guns
- Stop Stretching for Cure Test!
- Sublimation
- Thermocouple
- Transfer
- Why Plastisol Cracks
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Reclamation KB
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Glossary KB
- 4-Color Process
- Absolute Humidity
- at – Technical Atmosphere Pressure Unit
- Bar Pressure Unit
- Capillary Film
- Catalyst
- Curer
- Degreasing
- Diazo
- Dispersion
- DPI: Dots Per Inch
- Durometer
- Dwell Time
- Emulsion
- Emulsion Remover
- Fibrillation
- Film Positive
- Fisheyes
- Flash Gel Unit
- Forced-Air Flash
- Frame
- Ghost Image on Mesh
- Gradient
- Halftone
- Heat Cure
- How is Temperature Defined
- Ink Additive
- Ink Coverage
- LPI: Lines Per Inch
- Matrix
- Measurement Unit Terms
- Mesh
- Mesh Tension Meter
- Migration
- Misregistration
- Moiré
- Opacity
- Orange Peel
- Pigment
- Polymerization
- Pre-drying
- Print Pressure
- Register Marks
- Sawtooth
- Screen
- Shore A Hardness of Squeegees
- Squeegee
- Squeegee Angle
- Sublimation
- Substrate
- Thermocouple
- Thixotrophy
- Thread Counter
- Transfer
- Veil
- Viscosity
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Videos KB
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Myths KB
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Health and Safety
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Screenprint Engineering