The screen printer is another major area where you can cut costs and stretch the utility of the supplies you have on hand. Keep in mind that pennies add up into dollars. The subtleties in flatbed printers can turn those pennies into many dollars.
One of the major sins garment screen printers commit is investing in retensionable screen frames only to rack them for reorders as opposed to reclaiming, retensioning, and reusing them on press—the ways the product was intended to be used in the first place! Screens that sit on shelves simply age and lose tension. Maintaining a proper retensioning program allows you to maximize the return on your original investment in these frames. Among the greatest selling points of retensionable frames in either good times or bad is the amount of savings they can bring to other areas of the process, including reduced consumption of emulsion, reclaiming chemicals, inks, and mesh. The retensionable frame’s impact on the quality of the print also is enormous.