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I know that a lot of you also do screenprinting and I have a question. What kind of tape do you use on your screens? I have heard that many sign makers use left over vinyl from the signs they have made. I use this vinyl as block to cover pin holes but I haven't try to use it to tape the screens. Let wanted to hear what you use.
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hi i use a polyprop tape as the screen ink does not eat it away!! and it comes away from the screen perfectly...if you use a cheaper tape, you spend more time getting the glue off : i have used scraps of vinyl in the past, but do prefer the tape
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I bought an overstock roll of vinyl paint mask film from Gregory, Inc that was 350 ft long . They slit it to 3" wide rolls for me. Much less expensive and it works well for me.
-------------------- Brian Snyder Sign Effectz Woodbridge, New Jersey Posts: 723 | From: Woodbridge, NJ USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I spent years using crepe masking tape on the insides and clear packing tape on the back. Either one would take care of pinholes. The real advantage of the clear on the bottom was, if ink had crept under the frame edges, you could see how far it was getting before you had to retape.
A dab of blockout on a plain old matchbook match makes a great touch up brush for pinholes. Also works for spot touching up shirts.
Rapid
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After exposing and developing the image, I use transfer tape___ R Tape clear 4075 and cheap clear packaging tape to mask the areas where I don't want the ink to go. I use the R-tape, bring it to within 1/2" of the capilarry film, then use the clear packaging tape. This is cheap and easy to remove, doesn't leave adhesive. I only mask the ink side. For pinholes I use cheap (20/$1) kids paint brushes and liquid capilarry film or scotch tape. If there is a large area- use the transfer tape- do the pinhole stuff on the side that goes against the shirt.
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All the above!For really short runs on T-shirts, paper application tape is OK too.
Edit to add- the really cheap packing tape is poor economy if the adhesive comes off & stays behind, then you waste far more time cleaning it up than the cost of better stuff.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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We use shurtape # PC-622 or Polyken. They are about the same, a white heavy duty ductape type tape. We tape our screens once when we we stretch them. We tape the inside the print side. This literally holds up for years until we restretch them.
We aren't t-shirt printers. Some of our screens are 40"x80" ID so tetaping after each job with junk tape would be a real waste of time in our shop.
-------------------- Bill Modzel Mod-Zel screen Printing Traverse city, MI modzel@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1358 | From: Traverse City, MI | Registered: Nov 1998
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We use Polyken too. We recycle screens a lot and get many, many uses before we have to re-tape
-------------------- Robert M. Kistler South Bend Screen Process, Inc. 2018 S. Franklin St. South Bend IN 46613 Posts: 131 | From: South Bend Indiana | Registered: Jul 2003
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i have used scraps of vinyl in the past, but do prefer the tape 
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