12-20-2022, 08:20 AM
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Rob
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Originally Posted by Domer05
Good question. Once you burn your screen (stencil), if made properly, it could last several thousand runs. They're quite durable.
If the pennant was polychromatic, it might actually be made with up to four screens, depending on how many colors it featured. (One screen per color.)
I suspect for each pennant they burned a couple of screens, just in case the primary screen became damaged, e.g., torn mesh. If they were trying to screen a lot of pennants really quickly, like an NL/AL champs pennant for sale at a world series, you might have multiple presses printing the same pennant, side by side.
Here's what a well used screen looked like after a few thousand runs at Chicago Pennant Co....
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Good info, as always.
We did some silk screening in HS (I think) shop class. I seem to remember using an X-acto knife to cut the stencil. What do you mean by “burning” a screen?
The Seattle screen is cool….do you own it?
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