User talk:Megabuffalo

February 2022

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Screen printing. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. freshacconci (✉) 00:45, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

February 2022

By all means roll back my link to our website - which was a list of Phthalate and PVC Free ink suppliers - which of note we use only Rutland and we do so through a Regional Supplier in New Zealand called uniscreen. However I get the sentiment.

However why would you remove the other citations, none of these are even remotely related to us but were pertinent in terms of the article requests for citation. Having been involved in garment screen printing for 18 years, you are also missing some reasonably important information on this article.

Garment printing inks Section

Four-colour process or the CMYK colour model "This processes utilises halftones" - this is a massive part of CMYK printing, and which I linked back to the appropriate Wiki article.

Water-based dye (ink) - This section doesn't even exist and is an entirely different ink to water-based ink. As opposed to a thicker Plastisol Alternative this (ink) arrives concentrate which is mixed into a printing paste (thickener) to allow Screen Printing, this process is best used on light garments and as the dye is in the fibers themselves is often used for dish cloths, napkins and the like. This is similar to traditional textile printing.

Plastisol - Your description is literally incorrect without this. "except in the case of low cure inks[10]."

Again your automation section is poorly lacking. And on top this these are all pertinent citations, I have purposely avoided linking to specific brands which we may use here.

Automation Section To print multiple copies of the screen design on garments in an efficient manner, amateur and professional printers usually use a screen printing press, which is a colloquial term as most screen printing machines are vastly different from Offset Printing Presses. Many companies offer simple to sophisticated printing presses. These presses come in one of three types, Manual (also referred to as Handbench), Semi-Automatic, and Fully Automatic. Most printing companies will use one or more semi-automatic or fully automatic machines with manual machines for small runs and sampling.

Whilst Manual Screen Printing can be done with Carousels, Handbenches (both of which are often referred to colloquially as presses) or even on to tables. Semi and Fully-Automatic machines are broken into two main categories; Flatbed Printers [15] (Poster, Art Printing or other flat substrates) and Carousels and Oval Machines (Garments and other apparel, amongst other textiles). Both which are fundamentally similar in terms of automation but differ in areas such as physical footprint and upgrade paths. [16].

These machines are much faster and use either pneumatic pressure generated by air compressors or use electric motors to draw the squeegees, rotate and raise or lower pallets removing much of the manual labour from the task - resulting in significant reductions in operator fatigue as well as more consistent results.

Update, sorry the Low Cure ink page is also a direct supplier - I have removed citation and not replaced as I cannot locate one where they are not trying to sell the ink, however the distinction is important as there is no blanket cure temperature for all inks.

Megabuffalo (talk) 01:19, 24 February 2022 (UTC)