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Printing pockets on the automatic

Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:44 am
by beandip007
Hey everyone, I am new to the forums and will do my best to give good tips on good textile printing techniques, but one I have stumbled on is printing pockets on an automatic. We normally do the pockets on the manual and can do up to 6 colors on it, but it becomes really time consuming when you have to do a 1000 shirts. Has anyone experimented on pockets on the auto? What have you come up with to solve this issue? What platen would you recommend?

Re: Printing pockets on the automatic

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:00 pm
by slideways
When i'm printing pockets on the auto, i burn the image center and upside down, and use sleeve pallets and load the pocket on there. other wise you could use your standerd pallets it would just take a while, you have to make sure each lines up and i wouldn't do more then one color the pockets like a double lined jacket and would move after each print, i hope this helps.

Re: Printing pockets on the automatic

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:42 pm
by whimsywhit
slideways wrote:When i'm printing pockets on the auto, i burn the image center and upside down, and use sleeve pallets and load the pocket on there. other wise you could use your standerd pallets it would just take a while, you have to make sure each lines up and i wouldn't do more then one color the pockets like a double lined jacket and would move after each print, i hope this helps.
Ah, I agree with slideways. Exactly how we do it too. :)

Re: Printing pockets on the automatic

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:08 pm
by taglessthreads.com
Action Engineering offers a pallet that is great for printing on pockets. Yeah they are expensive, especially if you have a 10 station auto but the investment will pay off.

Re: Printing pockets on the automatic

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:29 pm
by the Art of Tees
great I have the same issue and today I found the answer