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Hi! My name is David from Lawson Screen & Digital Products, and today I will be demonstrating
Off-Contact. As we lower the screen onto your platen you'll notice that this is an example
right here where there is no off-contact. That is to say that there is no distance between
the bottom of your screen and the garment itself. This is what we call "no off-contact,"
there's no gap here. However, in many cases having a gap or having some form of off-contact
is important to good screen printing. Here I'm showing on the Lawson HD-Max how easy
it is to adjust off-contact, even while the screen remains in place. It's simply adjust,
lock in place, and it's done! For illustration purposes I'll over-exagerate the amount of
off-contact here, and then I will bring it back down to a more typical off-contact used
for printing t-shirts. Here I'll decrease the off-contact and you'll notice the gap
is getting smaller. And here is no off-contact just to remind you what no off-contact looks
like. The general principle of off-contact and how much off-contact is used depends on
your screen mesh, the brand of ink that you use, your artwrok, the type of garment you're
printing on and many other factors. But, it is important to understand that this is a
critical component of quality screeen printing.