http://fpressstudio.com/blog www.fpressstudio.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:04:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://fpressstudio.com/blog/?p=67&cpage=1#comment-4 Beaumont Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:57:07 +0000 http://fpressstudio.com/?p=67#comment-4 Hey man I thought the same thing, and then I used one. The shop had those leveraging bars mounted to the screen hinge, so when you pulled screen down, bar came down. You put weights on the opposite end of the bar based on squeegee weight and position (like a bucket hanging on other side with bricks in), so when you pulled squeegee down it would ever so gently lift on its own accord, and be light like feather. But it's not only to ease work (which is necessary for printmaking lifers), it's absolutely necessary for extra large screens that you couldn't reach from one end to other; also large flats of color (which may have as much as 60-70lbs. suction with ink), and in all that mentioned, keeping EVEN pressure across whole, so left side gets as much pressure as right, etc. Hey man I thought the same thing, and then I used one. The shop had those leveraging bars mounted to the screen hinge, so when you pulled screen down, bar came down. You put weights on the opposite end of the bar based on squeegee weight and position (like a bucket hanging on other side with bricks in), so when you pulled squeegee down it would ever so gently lift on its own accord, and be light like feather. But it’s not only to ease work (which is necessary for printmaking lifers), it’s absolutely necessary for extra large screens that you couldn’t reach from one end to other; also large flats of color (which may have as much as 60-70lbs. suction with ink), and in all that mentioned, keeping EVEN pressure across whole, so left side gets as much pressure as right, etc.

]]> http://fpressstudio.com/blog/?p=67&cpage=1#comment-3 Erik Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:58:44 +0000 http://fpressstudio.com/?p=67#comment-3 Andy Warhol used those large pressure bars too, I've only seen them used for large prints. Andy Warhol used those large pressure bars too, I’ve only seen them used for large prints.

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