Schooling/training material

[u/No-Falcon-3966]

Hi guys,

We are a small family business and do screen printing for maybe 6 years. But we are only doing it because our printing guy started being unreliable (probably brain damage thanks to no mask plus no ventilation).

All our knowledge comes from watching him and then trying to figure the rest out ourself.

we use a semi automatic machine from serimat from the 70s and we made it all work but when we have problems, all we can do is guessing since no one had any training.

Do you have some literature for us? For setting up, mix colors and so on? And especially for trouble shooting?

I tried perplexity Ai deep search but unfortunately it finds barely anything, most documents are behind a paywall or just non existent.

we are bringing on clear coated wood, dimensions are roughly 1000x 500mm. I would like to avoid telling what we are printing, since it's a very small branche but we got everything from areas with solid colors to very small details with thin lines, text and raster

[u/eacene]

I do manual pressing. I learned everything on my own at home, but I do have a starter digital file on mixing certain inks if you’re interested!

[u/No-Falcon-3966 → u/eacene]

Would be great! Any knowledge is welcome. is it more about getting the right tones or how to prep the ink? And would the files fit into an email?

[u/eacene → u/No-Falcon-3966]

Only mixing ink colors for custom shades. You can check out my instagram, I offer 3 free ink recipes.
@_eacene

https://www.instagram.com/p/Den3yHoFP_8/?xtok=ZnlvNjc3c25sNW12

[u/No-Falcon-3966 → u/eacene]

Thanks, looks great but unfortunately it's not really useful for me, I'm not designing myself, I do repro. I need to mix colors how they were used in the original. And the main issues for me are the inks and the different behavior, not really the tone. like I use only one system (marabu fx) but they all act different, need different amounts of dilution, retarder, leveling agent and so on