About the registration and alignment system

After 5 years of struggles and torment and nerves and swearing, in which I struggled with a Chinese screen printing carousel bought on Amazon, I decided to give it up.

I unscrewed it, disassembled it and put it in the attic of the house to cannibalize it and steal parts and bearings if I ever needed it. I thought I could build a business with it but I was wrong, almost nothing I printed with the screen printing carousel satisfied me in the first place, so that I could say that it was a saleable product. Except for a few series of t-shirts where I didn't have to align and register almost anything.

So, I advise you from the start not to purchase any kind of screen printing carousel if it costs under 1800 euros. And not blue.

I was preparing to leave the country, as I said in previous posts - screen printing is not my main source of income, it is a hobby.

And one Monday, someone asked me if I could prepare an order for 20 t-shirts. The first thing I thought of was outsourcing the order to a third party, like... DOXXXXXX printing house.

After I called them and found out that they don't do polychromatic screen printing (meaning multiple layers of different colors that blend perfectly into a final image) and that anyway, developing a screen printing site with them costs only 250 lei... I decided to take the order and work hard to finish it.

It came out well, but I wasn't impressed because there was no polychromy, there was nothing to align and register.

However, I was intoxicated with the euphoria of the TNL Techirghiol order that couldn't have been done with the carousel, I wouldn't have registered the colors properly and I would have ruined the barbecue aprons provided by the client. So I thought it was good that I dismantled the carousel after all.