DIGGING INTO DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY

摘要

To manufacture a suitable screen-printed job, a large number of variables, such as mesh selection, frame selection, and EOM, must be controlled. Print conditions such as mesh, frame, and snap-off distance influence dimensional accuracy, an important contributor to print quality. Dimensional accuracy is less important when printing a single-color job than it is when the application is a multicolor job. However, when embossing and diecutting follow printing, image dimensions become more relevant. Dimensional accuracy is a relative term in screen printing and depends on a number of process variables the printer can manage: mesh selection, mesh tension, frame selection, squeegee parameters, and snap distance.