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undercutting from film,
with the light going un-
der, and you lose quite a
few of the dots, whereas
the FreeStyler just holds
everything.
Does it save time?
No. It takes around 10
minutes per screen, but
I’ve been talking to Mark
[Evans, of Exile Tech-
nologies] and they’re
now working on another
setting that will keep the
quality but speed up the
print process.
Are there any other
advantages? With the
traditional method, you’ve
got thousands and thou-
sands of piece of films ly-
ing about, so you’re going
to save on storage with this.
What would you say to other printers thinking of getting
a CTS system? If they want to do quality tonal work, simulated
process work, the FreeStyler is absolutely brilliant. And the other good
thing about it is it also doubles as a direct-to-garment printer. For any
small to medium shop wanting to get into high end printing, I would
recommend it.
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The other good thing about it is it also
doubles as a direct-to-garment printer
Mooch screen operative Ian Guest with the
FreeStyler
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Goccopro QS200
Nick Collinson, managing director at Bang Tidy
Clothing
When did you get the
Goccopro? Six months
ago: we started with the
100, then traded that in for
the larger QS200 and we’ve
not looked back since.
Why did you get it? We
have a DTG background and
were new to screen printing:
we wanted a clean environ-
ment and to use as few
chemicals as possible.
How are you finding it?
It’s so quick and easy to use!
You can go from design to printing in under 10 minutes, and print
four or five different jobs in an hour. It’s ideal for anyone wanting
to get into screen printing, unless they’re doing a lot of multicolour
work. For one, two, three, four... spot colours it’s fantastic.
Is there anything you’d change? A wider range of mesh: we
use 70T and 120T and we want to print transfers, but our ink supplier
has advised us that 70T mesh isn’t really coarse enough.
Would you recommend it to other print shops? No, because
then they’d have the same advantage as us!
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You can go from design to printing in
under 10 minutes ”
Jordan puts the QS200 through its paces
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