Will Lasry tours a large-format screen-printing facility, showing how massive boards hold oversized screens and dual lasers align each panel precisely. Printed fabric travels through a long conveyor oven to cure the ink instead of flash-drying on the press.
So here we do the production for, uh, screen printing.
So this is a little bit more specialized of a printing press, and the reason why is because the boards are really huge, which means they can print really large screens on this. And if you look over here where the operator is, there's two lasers. Those lasers are forming a crosshair to indicate precision for exactly where to lay the panel every single time. This spray is used on the table, and the reason that spray is used, it's actually an adhesive. It allows the fabric to more easily adhere to the base panel. The reason you want that is because when it's swinging around, you don't want that fabric moving. It has to stay in place so that the print is precisely in the same position every single time. In this case, since it's a one-color print, they're not flash drying it on the machine. They're actually drying it over here on the conveyor belt. It goes through the oven, and this is a particularly long oven compared to some that I've seen in the past, so it's really going to give it a full dry. And when it comes out on the other side, it's going to be completely dry and ready to pass on to the next factor.
