How RH Pre-Press Ensures Your Success: Screen Printed Labels

RH discussing our screen printed labels and overlays. Our pre-press department ensures top quality industrial labels and membrane keypads.

Laying the Perfect Foundation: How RH Pre-Press Ensures Your Success: Screen Printed Labels
What goes into ensuring your industrial labels and graphic overlays for membrane keypads are spot-on every single time? At RH Technical Industries, we believe the secret lies in getting things right from the beginning. Whether you need durable membrane keypads or high-quality screen printed labels, our commitment to excellence starts in pre-press. While our Quality Control team meticulously checks every finished product, the real groundwork for that quality is laid down much earlier in our dedicated Pre-Press Screen Department. Think of it like prepping a canvas before an artist even picks up a brush – the crucial first step dictates the final masterpiece.

Pre-press isn’t just a routine step for us; it’s a deeply ingrained philosophy. We know that precision and reliability aren’t just nice-to-haves for you, our clients—they’re essential for your own products and processes, including the creation of flawless screen printed labels. That’s why our Pre-Press team dives deep into the details, ensuring that every element is perfectly aligned before we even consider putting ink on the material.

The journey starts with your artwork.
Our skilled technicians take a fine-tooth comb to every design, meticulously reviewing and preparing it for digital* and/or screen printing. One of the key steps here is colour separation. Imagine a vibrant, multi-coloured logo – we must carefully isolate each colour onto its own film or digital file. This colour separation might sound simple, but it is a delicate process. Failure to precisely manage this stage can result in misaligned colours in your final product, making your brand look blurry or unprofessional. Furthermore, this precision goes even further for membrane keypads, involving the creation of intricate circuit films that are the backbone of their functionality. These films ensure that every button press registers as it should.

Once the artwork is done, it shifts to creating the screens themselves. We use fine mesh screens, often made of high-quality synthetic materials, and coat them with a unique light-sensitive emulsion. Then comes the clever part: we place the prepared film positive (the negative of your design) onto the screen and expose it to UV light. The UV hardens the emulsion in the areas not covered by the film while the emulsion underneath remains soft. The unhardened emulsion washes away, leaving a perfect stencil – a precise negative of your intended image within the screen mesh.

Creating this stencil is where the real artistry comes in.
Our experienced technicians are masters of detail. They meticulously inspect each screen for tiny imperfections, like pinholes in the emulsion, and carefully block them out to prevent unwanted ink from seeping through. This level of attention stops those frustrating little blemishes from appearing on your final product. Furthermore, they expertly select the correct mesh count and apply just the right amount of tension to the screen. These seemingly small factors have a huge impact on how much ink transfers and the overall clarity and quality of the print – crucial for both the intricate details of your membrane keypads and the durability of your industrial labels. Why do we put so much emphasis on this seemingly behind-the-scenes work? Because this meticulous pre-press stage directly tackles some of the biggest headaches you might face with printed components.

Points to consider:
Firstly, it guarantees accuracy and precision. Whether it’s the perfect alignment of multiple colours in your branding or the faithful reproduction of intricate circuits in your keypads. Our pre-press team ensures that what you designed is what you get. No more frustrating discrepancies or near-enough results.
Secondly, it proactively prevents printing problems. By meticulously preparing everything upfront, we significantly reduce the risk of issues like unreadable barcodes, smudged text, unwanted ink bleeding, or misaligned layers. These steps save you time and money, as well as the headache of dealing with unusable products.
Thirdly, for those of you who rely on consistent branding across multiple orders, our pre-press department is your best friend. We ensure that your specified colour targets and design parameters are met with unwavering accuracy time after time, ensuring that your brand identity remains consistent and trustworthy.
Finally, our team’s expertise allows us to optimise your artwork specifically for the screen-printing process and our materials. This prep means we can anticipate potential challenges and fine-tune the preparation to ensure your final product’s best visual appeal and functional performance.
 
No Short Cuts to Great Screen Printed Labels
Skipping or skimping on this crucial pre-press stage is a recipe for potential disaster. That’s why our Pre-Press Screen Department acts as a vital quality control checkpoint, filtering out any possible errors before they even reach the printing press. It’s our way of ensuring that only perfectly prepared designs move forward, ultimately guaranteeing the quality and reliability you expect from us.

Our Pre-Press Screen Department isn’t just about the equipment we use. It’s really about the people—our team of highly experienced technicians. They bring a wealth of knowledge and an unwavering commitment to detail to every project, no matter how complex. This human touch, combined with technology, makes all the difference.

The meticulous work we do in Pre-Press isn’t an isolated task; it’s a vital part of our overall dedication to delivering flawless products. Just like our rigorous final quality checks, the pre-press stage is a proactive step we take to ensure excellence. We catch potential issues early by focusing on precision from the very start. This guarantees a higher standard of quality in everything we produce. This comprehensive approach defines RH Technical Industries from initial preparation to final inspection.

Contact us today!
Have you ever considered the foundational steps that turn your designs into reality? What part of this pre-press process sparks your curiosity the most? As a tip, adding digital print to this screen printed label process creates amazing effects! We’d love to hear from you if you have any specific questions about how our Pre-Press Screen Department ensures the quality of your industrial labels and membrane keypads. To discuss your next project or learn more about our pre-press capabilities, please don’t hesitate to reach out: