This segment offers a range of QC and troubleshooting methods for
screen printed display graphics.
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Author
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Description
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Accelerated Weathering and
Actual Exterior Exposure
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Denise Breard
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Look behind the scenes at how accelerated weathering works,
and how the tests are relevant to our printed products in
real-life conditions.
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QC Standards for Graphic Film
+ Separations
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Denise Breard
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Use this example format to develop your own quality checklist
for films and separations.
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QC Standards for Film Positive
Inspection
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Denise Breard
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Use this example format to develop your own quality check
for inspection film positives before sending them to the screen
department.
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QC Standards for Test Printing
Halftones
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Use this example format as a guide to developing your own
halftone test film.
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Test Procedures for Tape and
Scratch
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Denise Breard
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For sensitive substrates where cross hatch and tape testing
cannot be used, these procedures for tape testing and scratch
testing can be just the ticket.
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Testing Solvent Based Prints
in 10 Steps
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Denise Breard
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Follow these ten steps to ensure that your solvent-based
ink prints are fully dried.
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Testing UV Ink Cure in Ten
Steps
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Denise Breard
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Follow these ten steps to ensure that your UV ink prints
are properly cured.
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Adhesion Testing Format for
UV Curable Inks
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Use this adhesion testing format to record when checking
various inks for best performance on a substrate.
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Advances in Proc Control for
UV Curing
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Simon Whittle
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Mr Whittle updates us on what can be controlled in UV systems
from the perspective of the manufacturers.
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Controlling off-contact
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Dawn Hohl
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Improve your understanding of
off-contact and learn how SPTF’s electronic contact gauge
can solve
registration problems and improve your print quality.
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SPTF Screen Printing Process
Model poster
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Dawn Hohl
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SGIA members and SPTF supporters have access to the most
comprehensive Screen Printing Process Chart ever produced.
The Model can serve businesses in training, procedure development,
troubleshooting and management decisions.
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SPTF’s New
Picture of the Screen Printing Process: a Tool of the Trade
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Dawn Hohl
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How to utilize the SPTF Screen Printing Process Model to
develop a training program, troubleshoot print problems, and
as a visual tool for management decision making issues.
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A Guideline to
Wet and Dry Ink Deposit Measurement Methods, Pt 1
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Hunt + Hohl
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Find out what instruments accurately measure wet and dry
ink deposit ...and which ones don't. Part 1 of 3.
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A Guideline to
Wet and Dry Ink Deposit Measurement Methods, Pt 2
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Hunt + Hohl
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Find out what instruments accurately measure wet and dry
ink deposit ...and which ones don't. Part 3 of 3.
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A Guideline to
Wet and Dry Ink Deposit Measurement Methods, Pt 3
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Hunt + Hohl
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Find out what instruments accurately measure wet and dry
ink deposit ...and which ones don't. Part 3 of 3.
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Pressure Sensitive
Adhesives A Visual Quality Control
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Lisa Castillo
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The market for pressure sensitive adhesives is expanding,
however, the use and performance of PSAs is often misunderstood.
This visual tool provides a means of identifying and correcting
quality issues.
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Cleanroom Principles
and Construction
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Dutch Drehle
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The biggest source of contamination in a cleanroom is people.
By simply walking around, the human body can generate five
to ten million skin, hair, dirt and clothing particles.
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Radiometers
the Best of Intentions
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Jim Reymont
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Did you have big plans for UV curing in your company? Are
things not going as well as you would like? Here are some
tips to get your "Best of Intentions" back on track.
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Developing
Standard Methods and Procedures
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Genevieve Munden
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Are problems truly fixed or have Band Aids been applied?
When the person who applied the Band Aid leaves, so does the
Band Aid. The troubleshooting processes will then have to
be repeated by the next person in charge.
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Dynamic
Troubleshooting 240 'On-Press' Print Problems for
High-Definition Screen Printing: Part II
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Mike Young
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"…The writer has seen, with great alarm, many a time,
people lying or standing on the print table for one reason
or another yet they wonder why they experience (self-made)
printing problems!"
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Dynamic Troubleshooting
240 ‘On-Press’ Print Problems for High-Definition Screen Printing:
Part I
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Mike Young
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More than any time previously, companies today are heavily
investing in state-of-the-art pre-press technology to dramatically
improve overall artwork generation through to screen making.
And so they should!
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Dynamic Troubleshooting
240 ‘On-Press’ Print Problems for High-Definition Screen Printing:
Part III
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Mike Young
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Everything happens at the squeegee’s tip. If something is
going to fail it will enviably show up at this stage.
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Dynamic
Troubleshooting 240 ‘On-Press’ Print Problems for High-Definition
Screen Printing: Part IV
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Mike Young
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Image-to-frame ratio is just one guide; how close the image
is to the frame is something entirely different!
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Dynamic Troubleshooting
240 ‘On-Press’ Print Problems for High-Definition Screen Printing:
Part V
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Mike Young
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Speed variation from one end of the image to the other will
correspond three-dimensionally to an uneven ink deposit.
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