Abstract:
The present invention refers to a method and a plant for producing a stencil arrangement, whereby said stencil comprises a carrier substrate (2) and a pattern (4) belonging to said substrate, while using digital information relating to the pattern and stored in a computer equipment (10) and means (20) for transferring said digital information to a light-sensitive layer (3) applied onto the carrier substrate (2). Connected to the computer equipment (10) is at least one modified laser printer unit (20), which is movable relative to said layer-coated carrier substrate (2) by means of a frame structure (30). During said movement said unit (20) is applying a light-absorbing layer (5, 5') onto said light-sensitive layer (3) and further means are arranged for exposure process and developement process.
Abstract:
A screen printing stencil is produced chemically by application of a chemical agent (4) to a carrier (2) having an image-receiving layer (1). The chemical agent (4) is applied dropwise using a computer-controlled ink-jet printer. The carrier is then brought into contact with a stencil-forming agent (6) on a screen printing mesh (5), whereby the chemical agent reacts with the stencil-forming agent to harden the stencil in areas which remain upon subsequent wash-out. The stencil so produced can be used for screen printing in the usual way. In a variant, the chemical agent reacts with the carrier and excess chemical agent remains to react with the stencil-forming agent. A part of the carrier is thereby incorporated into the stencil improving its profile. The method avoids the use of safe light and actinic radiation.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to screen printing operation, and particularly a screen printing operation at a relatively high tension. The nominal thread diameter of the screen material as woven is contemplated to be essentially increased over that generally found in the prior art while substantially maintaining the standard mesh count arrangements as woven. The combination of high tension and increased thread diameter while maintaining the thread count results in a substantial improvement to the printed product and printing operation.
Abstract:
When a new textile design is created it is desirable to be able to produce a small quantity of cloth as a proof to check the design and to show to customers when soliciting their orders. A method of preparing a patterned screen printing plate for use in proofing comprises using a laser to ablate discrete areas of material from a continuous substrate to form a pattern of discrete perforations corresponding to the pattern to be formed on the final printing screen. In this method, the impingement of the laser with the substrate is controlled firstly by pattern information corresponding to the pattern to be formed, and secondly by the laser only being allowed to impinge on the substrate at areas corresponding to those at which perforations are present in the final printing screen. In this way it is possible to form an exact replica of the final screen to be used, and thus print an exactly similar proof.
Abstract:
A method of making a plate using a heat-sensitive stencil paper characterized in that heat-generating elements arranged one-dimensionally are brought into direct contact with a thermoplastic resin film of a heat-sensitive stencil paper which is obtained by sticking the thermoplastic resin film and a porous support member together, and a pulse-modulated electric current is supplied to the heat-generating elements while moving them at right angles with the direction in which they are arranged, in order to form a perforated image consisting of two-dimensional dot matrix on the surface of the thermoplastic resin film.
Abstract:
A method of producing a rotary screen printing cylinder or other fine-apertured sheet material which comprises electrodeposition of a plastic material onto an electrically conductive fine-apertured cylinder or other sheet substrate. When applied to wire mesh cylinders, the method is a fast and effective way of reducing the aperture size. The method can also be operated so that plastic is deposited on one side only of the substrate to increase the substrate strength with little or no aperture size reduction.
Abstract:
A screen printing perforation pattern comprises elongated perforations (2, 3, 4; 12, 13, 14), in which the elongation directions of at least a part of the perforations run at angles to one another. The perforations are preferably parallelogram-shaped.
Abstract:
Screen material made of wire intended in particular for screen printing cylinders, in which the holes (4) are bounded in such a way by wire pieces (1) which are joined to each other locally (2) that an at least virtually flat non-woven screen surface is obtained, adjacent wire sections (3) each comprising two or more wire pieces (1) which extend preferably uncrossed in substantially the same direction; method and device for the production thereof.
Abstract:
For producing high quality patterns on large surfaces such as serigraphical printing frames having a light coating it is advantageous to produce the pattern by laser scanning, line by line, though by this technique the working width is rather limited. According to the invention, however, a large effective width is obtained by scanning with normal width a number of neighbouring zones (a-b, b-c) of the working surface. Extreme care should be taken for ensuring the side edges of the zones to coincide, but a high accuracy is achievable almost automatically with the use to a surface coating of a type that changes colour locally where it is exposed to the laser beam. Thereby a sensor (4) associated with the laser gun (2) can successively detect the location of the side of the neighbouring zone line by line, and the sensor signal can be used to control the new line scanning such that the new line will stop exactly at the end of the corresponding line in the neighbouring zone. Hereby even local irregularities in the zone border will be taken into account.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the production of a metal screen by irradiating a metal basic layer with high-energy, focused radiation, wherein at least one metal basic layer (3) to be perforated to form a screen is supported in intimate contact on both opposite surfaces during the irradiation by a supporting element (1, 5) adapted to the shape of the metal basic layer (3), using a release layer (2, 4) between a supporting element (1, 5) and the opposite surface of the metal layer (3), and after perforation the two supporting elements (1, 5) and the release layers (2, 4) are removed. According to the present process it is also possible to produce several screens at the same time by using a stack of metal basic layers (3, 3', 3''), between which release layers (2', 2'') are present. The metal basic layer (3, 3', 3'') is a copper or nickel-containing compound, preferably copper. The release layer (2, 2', 2'') used is a layer of a metal compound, preferably a metal oxide or metal sulphide layer, and is preferably formed by conversion. The invention further relates to a device for the production of a metal screen, comprising a metal basic layer and a supporting element adapted to the shape of the basic layer, and means for the production of perforations, wherein the device is also provided with means for applying of a release layer (2, 2', 2'', 4) between a supporting element (1, 5) and the opposite surface of the metal basic layer (3, 3', 3''), and means for the removal of the supporting elements (1, 5) and the release layers (2, 2', 2'', 4) after the perforation operation.