Multi-frame screen printing
CA 2409577 A1 · Owner: Hallmark Cards, Incorporated · Inventors: Townsend, Kevin; Wynkoop, Catherine; Thomas, Carrie L.
Overview
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A method of making screen printing frames can include in certain illustrative embodiments, affixing at least two frames to one another, applying a masking film to both frames, exposing the frames, removing the unhardened emulsion in the meshes, and separating the frames from one another for deployment in a screen printing apparatus. This exemplary process can be used to create images in substantially complete registration with one another on frames having different mesh counts. Stated another way these embodiments permit the use of multiple frames to print different inks through different meshes in a single pass to form images in substantially complete registration with one another. In …
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- Filed October 22, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 22, 2022.
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