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(D): Printer Carrying Padded Case sku# BG-3754 (C): Sinfonia CS2 4ењ†' Print Media - 600 Prints sku# 46CHC6145

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(B): dslrBooth Pro Photobooth Software (Windows or Mac)

(A): Sinfonia Color Stream CS2 Dye Sub Photo Printer ( CHCS6145 ) That concludes your vocabulary lesson!В Are there any other termsВ you feel are critical for screen printers to know? Let us know in the comments below.10x10'ft GreenScreen Backdrop & Light Kit Washout Booth: A booth used for washing out stencils and screens. Wash Test: laundering a garment to decide if itвЂ™s fully cured. Viscosity: the thickness or thinness of an ink. Underexposed: insufficient screen exposure time.

Underbase: thin coating of ink printed first and cured later to act as a base for all the other colors. Substrate: term for the item youвЂ™re printing. Step Wedge Test: an exposure test used to tell you proper exposure time. Stencil: portion of the exposed screen containing an image to be printed. Spot Color: color reproduced by an opaque, premixed, or standard ink from a system such as Pantone. Squeegee Side: side of the screen the ink is applied to. Squeegee: wooden or metal handled tool with a rubber blade used to drive ink through the stencil by pulling. Safelight: light used when working with photosensitive materials to prevent accidental exposure to UV light. Retensionable Frames: frames that allow mesh to be applied over the screen without the use of stretching equipment. Registration: lining up the screen image to the original art on a printing press. Reducer: colorless ink additive used to lower the viscosity of ink. Reclaim: the process of removing old emulsion from a screen so the screen can be reused. Print Side: the side of the screen that touches the substrate being printed on. Positive: media used to block out UV light during the exposure process. PMS: pantone Matching System, which mixes various inks to get the best pantone color. Pinholes: tiny unwanted specs that appear on the stencil after exposure. Off-Contact: Screen-printing method with a slight gap between the screen and the substrate. Monofilament: single-strand threads woven into screen fabric. Micro-registration: adjustment on the print head of a screen printing press, used for precise movement. Mesh Count: the number of threads in one square inch, measured in both directions. Mesh: woven material on the printable portion of the screen.

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Manual Press: a press used to transfer ink. Infrared: Energy wavelengths which produce heat. Halftone Dot Types: Shapes of halftone dots.

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Halftone: a color or greyscale image thatвЂ™s been converted into a series of large and small dots. They tend to be hard to control.ДPI: Dots per inch, which is a measure of spatial printing or video dot density.Дurometer: used to describe and measure how hard rubber may be (aka how hard a squeegee blade is).Д®mulsion: A photosensitive chemical in liquid, roll, or sheet form that is used to make a stencil.ДЇlocking: a material printed onto the fabric for a mirror finish or super-soft touch.ДЇour-Color Process: utilizing four ink colors to print the whole color spectrum.ДЇull Cure: When plastisol ink film has fused. These work by removing the dye in a garment so itвЂ™s softer. When applied to a screen with water, it adheres to the mesh by capillary action.Д¬oating: applying direct emulsion to a screen.Д¬onveyor Dryer: belt used for curing inks.Д¬oroplast: solvent ink used in printing coroplast blanks.Д¬urable Reducer: additive to plastisol ink which decreases viscosity.Д¬ure: when one uses heat to fuse together plastisol ink.Дarkroom: a literal вЂdark roomвЂ™ for drying screens coated with emulsion or capillary film.Дegrease: washing screen with cleaner to remove dirt and oil before coating with emulsion.Дehaze: using a cleaning agent to remove ghosted images on a screen.Дiazo Emulsion: a two-part photosensitive emulsion.Дischarge Ink: a great way to print lighter hues onto darker fabrics. New to the screen printing world and a little overwhelmed by the seemingly-endless terminology? We got with the team at Ryonet to put together cheat sheet of the most common screen printing terms so youвЂ™ll be on your A-game 24/7! The Screen PrintersвЂ™ DictionaryД«lock-Out: chemical thatвЂ™s used to cover pink holes and block out the screen so ink doesnвЂ™t go through.Д«urn: exposing a screen coated in emulsion to a light source, creating a stencil.Д¬apillary Film: light and sensitive film used to create a stencil.

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