Years in the Industry

Spider-Machines · June 24th, 2011, 08:38 AM

Screen Stars Best <--- we called the lower grade Screen Stars worst ;-) LOL

I remember using Corel 2.0 with a Giant HP II LaserJet -and- an HP Flat Bed Scanner with and AGFA Stat camera

Halftones were shot with a Half-Tone screen 65 line elliptical conical dots <--- anyone remember doing a BUMP -or- FLASH in the darkroom ???

Did any of you print Russell T's without a printers crease for a centerline <--- these were ALL individually folded in plastic bags with cardboard placards (crazy times back then)

Spider-Machines · June 24th, 2011, 08:42 AM

Here is a show your age test ... Rutland M1 Yellow straight out of the bucket :-@

srimonogramming · June 24th, 2011, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by gerryppg

I have been doing this 2 years and constantly read and practice new things. My wife bugs me about also being into it but I feel that you can never stop learning. I am actually training an apprentice right now and find that it is harder to teach someone than it was to learn myself. What books or other media have you used over the years that has helped you evolve?

I wish I could give you everything I've read, a lot of it was worthless, but I'll give you some of the better resources I've taken advantage of. There are lot's of good articles archived at Printwear, Impressions, Screenweb, Solutions Journal, Images-magazine. I've read most of Bill Hoods books and articles, anything I can find by Joe Clarke (although most of it is over my head), Mark Coudray (way over my head), Douglas Grigar has some good articles, and I know I'm forgetting a bunch of guys but that is just a few.

There is a ton of good technical information from Saati and Murakami. Murakami has great technical newsletters on their website, and the Saati Handbook is a great read for technical screen printing information. I don't know if the Saati book is available anywhere for free, but I have a free copy that I found on a CD from One Stroke Inks.

When I think of more places I'll post back here.

Printwizard · June 24th, 2011, 09:45 AM

Standing on the beer crate and dialing down the agfa repro-master! warped chipboard screen pallets. 30 minute exposures on screens. The oldest machinery remaining would be our hix heat presses, and a couple of 25 year old carousels still in daily use.

Customers would fax us art and ask us to touch it up. I would go and do deliveries and come back in the afternoon and make calls as there was no mobile phone. Artwork was couriered or on 3.5 inch disks, then zip discs...... Now we have mobile Internet, ipads and mobile phones and that has not gained one minute of time, I work more now than then....

inkman996 · June 24th, 2011, 09:54 AM

We still have our AWT Supertex manual built in the early 90's but probably the best manual ever built, unfortunately it was way to expensive at its time to be viable in the market.

Printwizard · June 24th, 2011, 10:11 AM

GerryPPG try YouTube, for everything I have read i find so much new and different and easier to learn stuff there. Like Alan says the suppliers all used to have great stuff like SAATI but times are changing. A long time ago the sales reps visited regularly and they educated you as did the ink and consumable companies. These days that is much less so. Books seem to be a bit basic the ones I have seen anyway, but YouTube is great. Try looking up srimonogramming for a start!!! Inkman nice wheel! One of the best things we own apart from the spotting gun is our LEISTER plastic welders. We have them with the two inch bottom. They are like a heat gun that never burns out and you leave them going all day, you can turn the heat down or up and are great on bags and promo stuff that you don't want to flash. We used to go through heat guns every week, and they are nowhere near as good in type of heat as the leisters, I think they are a must have. Probably around $500 usd, but they will last you decades.

tonypep · June 24th, 2011, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Printwizard

Standing on the beer crate and dialing down the agfa repro-master! warped chipboard screen pallets. 30 minute exposures on screens. The oldest machinery remaining would be our hix heat presses, and a couple of 25 year old carousels still in daily use.

Customers would fax us art and ask us to touch it up. I would go and do deliveries and come back in the afternoon and make calls as there was no mobile phone. Artwork was couriered or on 3.5 inch disks, then zip discs...... Now we have mobile Internet, ipads and mobile phones and that has not gained one minute of time, I work more now than then....

Got me thinking about my first job. We liked Triangle white a lot. But it had kind of a sickly sweet smell. Rats really seemed to like it. They would crawl in the bucket and eat it. Then they would get stuck and die. The only way you could find them is when they would begin to stink.
Dead rats don't smell very nice.....who knew?

screenmachines · June 24th, 2011, 05:17 PM

Advance Multiprinters and Hopkins Manuals, and we printed on Turner Orginals. Worse tee-shirts ever made, but cheap and cheap back then was $2.25 to $2.50. Remember the day a rep said Wilflex / Flexiable Products has a PC ink matching system, but you need a computer to operate it. It was like a computer are you kidding me? So we got the shop's first PC. Windows 3.1 I think was. Man those were the days.

Capt-G · June 24th, 2011, 06:44 PM

Gee, you are all Kiddies.

I started screen printing at Mattel Toys in 1965 with 4-color process on vinyl, 85 line screens, 305 yellow NYLON mesh. Precision 4-color belt printers with Advance-American hot air gas dryers between the heads. Dave Jaffa's Father Matt used to call on us in North Jersey. Mel Green from American Equipment made the dryers. Mel also had us distribute the first PLASTISOL ink that was made for us by US Rubber (Uniroyal) called Deco-Flex.

After I left the Air Force in 1966, I went to work for Advance-American as a screen maker and salesman, Jan 2, 1967. We still made SILK screens with mesh from Switzerland and Japan. Sold my first textile automatic in 1972, a 4 color, 6 station CAMEO multiprinter.

Worked up from sales to branch manager, NE regional manager, where we sold 600 Arrow multiprinters in the NE USA. Hard to believe, but they were there along with dryers, screen-making, etc.

Moved up to Managing the East Coast and Canada for Advance-American about the time Rich set up M&R.

Since the demise of Advance-American (1991), we've been doing business as CGS Sales & Service, LLC, Mostly rebuilding screen equipment and selling it with a warranty. www.screenprintsource.com.

So it looks like 46 years in the industry for me.

I was printing when RWB was pooping mustard.

Spider-Machines · June 24th, 2011, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Capt-G

Gee, you are all Kiddies.

I started screen printing at Mattel Toys in 1965 with 4-color process on vinyl, 85 line screens, 305 yellow NYLON mesh. Precision 4-color belt printers with Advance-American hot air gas dryers between the heads. Dave Jaffa's Father Matt used to call on us in North Jersey. Mel Green from American Equipment made the dryers. Mel also had us distribute the first PLASTISOL ink that was made for us by US Rubber (Uniroyal) called Deco-Flex.

After I left the Air Force in 1966, I went to work for Advance-American as a screen maker and salesman, Jan 2, 1967. We still made SILK screens with mesh from Switzerland and Japan. Sold my first textile automatic in 1972, a 4 color, 6 station CAMEO multiprinter.

Worked up from sales to branch manager, NE regional manager, where we sold 600 Arrow multiprinters in the NE USA. Hard to believe, but they were there along with dryers, screen-making, etc.

Moved up to Managing the East Coast and Canada for Advance-American about the time Rich set up M&R.

Since the demise of Advance-American (1991), we've been doing business as CGS Sales & Service, LLC, Mostly rebuilding screen equipment and selling it with a warranty. www.screenprintsource.com.

So it looks like 46 years in the industry for me.

I was printing when RWB was pooping mustard.

For the record my MOMMA never let me pop mustard ;-) LOL

BTW ... RWB is over in Allentown, PA -and- will stick my mustard pooping @$$ in the door tomorrow at CGS... you guys gunn a be around in the afternoon :-?