Being a paper, it can absorb moisture in the air and change shape when heated with the fusing rollers in a laser printer. The major problem with vellum is that it isn’t as stable as polyester based film. But there are millions of shirts printed that would never be “award winning” yet go to very happy customers.
Our industry does a disservice by not qualifying hard statements like “it won’t work.” Won’t work for what? Process color? Perfect register? One color print? Twelve shirts? No, vellum is not for everyone. I truly believe there is a silent majority of printers who only do one and two color prints and NEVER do tight register multi-color work or process color. It really depends on the type of work you do. Some printers have tried vellum and hated it. With this kind of saving it doesn’t take long to figure out what makes vellum so attractive. Vellum paper can be printed on a laser printer or copier and costs 10 to 50 cents (depending on size). vellum at $.25 to $.50. Over the years I sold thousands of inkjet printers and FastRIP/T-RIP packages and one thing I found interesting was that a LOT of my customers kept their laser printer and still used vellum for those non-critical jobs.
#Screen printing staples vallum software
The birth of inkjet printers, software rips, special clear film and ink, spawned the birth of making film positives that rivaled camera quality. But, for much of the “ink slapping” work being done it was still almost too good. The films could cost $1.00 to $1.50 compared to…. In the early 2000’s guys like me were looking for a better way to make screens for more critical jobs. What more could we ask for?įor every day general work vellum was and in some circles still is the workhorse of screen imaging. We went from a darkroom to pressing the Print button and from film costs of over $2.00 per film to less than $.25. For those who remember the old process cameras, when vellum paper and laser printers found a home in the screen making department back in the early 90’s we thought we had found nirvana.
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