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Kathy Hansen

Kathy Hansen

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September 14, 2011 9:09:00 AM CDT

Save Time and Money with the Right Squeegee

Joe Clarke has been an adviser of Sharprint’s since we first stepped foot into the decorated apparel industry. Clarke designs, engineers and manufacturers new technology for the screen-printing industry. We have experimented with other vendor’s squeegees, but time after time we stick with the high quality sqeegees that Clark Product Renovation has to offer. Joe is a great resource, which is why we reached out to him to write a guest blog about an area of his expertise, squeegees.

Article Written By: Joe Clarke
Have you ever ran into the technical or financial issues listed below? Technical issues are those traditional problems that confront the operator on-press and result in unnecessary costs in both lost time and damaged goods. Financial issues lists the specific areas of costs associated with the technical problems on press.

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June 30, 2011 7:07:00 AM CDT

The Mesh Matters

When printing from your computer to an ordinary printer, multiple heads spray the colors cyan, magenta, yellow and black in one pass of paper to create a multi-color image. When screen printing an image, each color has its own screen and the t-shirt or other garment makes a stop at each station on the press.

The actual “screen” is a frame stretched with mesh. Just as it sounds, “mesh” is a cris-cross pattern of thread. “Mesh count” refers to the number of threads per square inch - this is a similar concept to the dpi or lpi you refer to with an ink jet printer. Different meshes and mesh counts accomplish different things on press.

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