D2M-RS1 Automatic Screen Stencil Maker

Description

Screen trial now available – Try it for yourself. We’ll print your design onto screens using the D2M and send them to your to try. Send your enquiry and design to nick@screenprintworld.co.uk and we’ll be in touch to arrange the trial. 

D2M Rapid Screen, Australia and DuralChrome of Switzerland have partnered to develop a new stencil making technology named D2M-RS1. The D2M-RS1 is an entirely new stencil making process that is built around a printable emulsion which is applied directly to the screen mesh in negative form. It is designed to almost eliminates the steps required for stencil making using conventional photo stencil processes. The D2M-RS1 eliminates the need for darkroom processes which typically consist of film positives/CTS equipment, emulsion pre-coating, drying, screen exposure and washout procedures. It eliminates many of the chemicals and energy requirements needed to make stencils including water, drying and air flow/humidity controls and specific lighting. The conventional production steps are bypassed with the D2M-RS1 which can be positioned on the print production floor. Screens can be prepared for printing in a fraction of the time it would take to do the same in a typical screen-printing darkroom. D2M reduces set-up costs and time, enabling smaller production runs to become more viable.

The D2M-RS1 uses a printable liquid emulsion technology to produce the negative directly onto the stencil mesh. It basically replaces emulsion pre-coating and therefore
the need for film positives or CTS equipment. This direct printable emulsion is UV cured and jetted onto the mesh with a patented, proprietary encapsulation technology so that both sides of the screen mesh are encapsulated and hardened simultaneously. This in turn creates a fully imaged screen ready for the press without the need of any of the additional steps normally required with traditional screen preparation. Images or negatives have pixel sharp edges and definition up to 2400dpi. More detail is retained than with a film exposure, which can suffer from poor
density, alignment errors and light undercutting.

The traditional/photographic stencil making process requires a dedicated darkroom setup that consists of; a UV light safe environment, a screen coating machine to apply the emulsion
properly, a drying unit and humidity controller to dry and remove moisture from the emulsion, a film printer/ CTS machine to print/transpose
the artwork onto the screen, an exposure unit to expose the emulsion, a washout trough to wash out the unexposed emulsion after the stencil is developed. There are 4-5 pieces of equipment required to complete the stencil making process with additional energy, workspace and water requirements for processing.

Special Features
• Eliminate all darkroom processes
• Eliminate all consumable costs
• Improve quality and speed-up “time to press”
• No emulsion, no washout, no drying, no film
• Up to 2400dpi resolution

More information.
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