Remember When?

tonypep · March 13th, 2012, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by californiadreamin

Hi Tony,
I heard you printed more than a few goods throughout the years! I loved the
Precision Belt Printers. I miss the sound of the hydros,sliding belts,and
popping screens. Bill Foust on this board, use to run lots of belts in his shop,
and Ray Gateo on this board, I heard was the "Towel King" using belts as well! Dave Jaffa loved his Artwave! His vision was every mall in America with
those yellow flying saucers! Time flies...

At Artwave we actually stripped the print heads off a belt printer and rigged Wagner spray guns over it and sprayed discharge ink over the shirt while the washers underneath cleaned off the excess ink. It was in a secret room with a giant padlock on the door. Also those were the days of the first "Don't have a Cow" shirts and a lot of **** Tracy and first Batman movie tees. Also someone named Madonna.

californiadreamin · March 13th, 2012, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by tonypep

At Artwave we actually stripped the print heads off a belt printer and rigged Wagner spray guns over it and sprayed discharge ink over the shirt while the washers underneath cleaned off the excess ink. It was in a secret room with a giant padlock on the door. Also those were the days of the first "Don't have a Cow" shirts and a lot of **** Tracy and first Batman movie tees. Also someone named Madonna.

Sorry Tony!
I confused your shop name with the
Artwave machine, the yellow spin art
with the clear bubble top. Your method
sounds great!

inkman996 · March 13th, 2012, 10:08 AM

Yep Urea good memory and yes they were pellets and stunk of Ammonia.

Sorry Tony I am pretty certain all the pigments are powder including the dayglo florescents but I will check to be sure.

californiadreamin · March 13th, 2012, 10:36 AM

Bart Simpson was a good run for many!
These days I suffer from a bad case of CRS
so it is good to jarr the brain once in a while.

tonypep · March 13th, 2012, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by californiadreamin

Sorry Tony!
I confused your shop name with the
Artwave machine, the yellow spin art
with the clear bubble top. Your method
sounds great!

Actually you didn't. The Artwave spinart machine was a pet project of Greg Jaffa and was in a separate part of the bldg. The belt spray operation in another. Oh and the sprays were neon!

arttex · March 13th, 2012, 01:02 PM

Sh*t, I think I'm getting old. I was maybe 15 back then, but still remember a lot of those stuff you people mentioned. I had transferred tons of those big sheets of Letraset, letter by letter, while helping my father in the shop. Mostly water based inks (Manoukian, Minerva), white opaque water based ink was a real pain in the ***. I remember that brown film paint from the small tube, still have Agfa repro camera somewhere. Many times customers used to bring just a paper sketch of the design and we have had some engineer, good in technical drawing, to make the positives by drawing them with rapidograph sets on blank film.

Great thread, btw.

Printwizard · March 13th, 2012, 01:35 PM

Don't class Manoukian as obsolete. If anyone prints vinyl stickers, aluminum, metals, even polyester coated products they have IMHO the best current series of solvent inks in the world. We use them for printing wine screw caps, the company I contract to produces about half the caps in the world, and it's the standard ink used. We have trialled others, but nothing beats the colour, adhesion and keying, and it stays open. Haven't ever used another comes remotely close in the environment we print in and substrate.

Argon printing machines.
Warped wooden pallets
Shimming the squeegee on the TAS to arc over the warped wooden pallets in some kind of parallelness......
Ceramic elements
Beverly Hills 90210 Sweats
Don't worry - Be happy on tie-died singlets.
Garfield.
Snoopy.
Putting black key lines on everything to hide any gap in cut ruby seps and drawn designs. If the art was bad you just made the black key line thicker to join everything up.....
Sweats only came in crew or vee neck. Later with collar, and then hoodies.
Buying the tone in sheets to cut out.
Also Lines and stripe sheets.
I still have a letraset book. Actually I have boxes of junk from "back in the day"..... God knows what else is in them.
Clamps. Clamping got around the film exposed in the wrong place, pack and clamp, micro rego was a hammer. Who am I kidding, still is.....

californiadreamin · March 13th, 2012, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by tonypep

Actually you didn't. The Artwave spinart machine was a pet project of Greg Jaffa and was in a separate part of the bldg. The belt spray operation in another. Oh and the sprays were neon!

After Artwave,didnt Gregg take over that contract
shop RC orR someting? I thought he was using
multi printers! If my memory is correct.

californiadreamin · March 13th, 2012, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by arttex

Sh*t, I think I'm getting old. I was maybe 15 back then, but still remember a lot of those stuff you people mentioned. I had transferred tons of those big sheets of Letraset, letter by letter, while helping my father in the shop. Mostly water based inks (Manoukian, Minerva), white opaque water based ink was a real pain in the ***. I remember that brown film paint from the small tube, still have Agfa repro camera somewhere. Many times customers used to bring just a paper sketch of the design and we have had some engineer, good in technical drawing, to make the positives by drawing them with rapidograph sets on blank film.

Great thread, btw.

Artex!
Well no wonder your prints look so good!
How is everything with your new press?
I hope well !
winston

californiadreamin · March 13th, 2012, 02:33 PM

Printwizard,
Great post...its kinda like hearing and old song
and remembering when,where,and with whom.
I agree on your hammer micro , nothin better
except a MHM.I hope all is well down under,
but in reality, you could be on top ,which could
explain a lota things!
winston