They allow crisp high quality and professional looking exposures in a lightweight and budget friendly package.
Exposure unit light bulbs.
Used in all older atlas 5 way national equipment exposure units as well many other manufacturers units and thousands of do it yourself exposure kits.
In addition to the fast exposure times and fine line detail this unit will reduce your set up times energy costs and overall cost of ownership.
A screen printing exposure unit is a light unit that emits light to expose photo sensitive emulsion or capillary film.
Metal halide or mercury vapor lamps are more costly not as easy to source and more difficult to implement into a typical home made exposure unit.
At ryonet we carry full lines of quality exposure units for both big and small screen printing projects.
This is why most low cost exposure units have them as a light source.
A screen exposure unit can have a couple of different light sources.
Among them are uv fluorescent bulb led exposure unit and metal halide.
On the other hand a light source high in uv e g.
It can be bought as either a table top or floor model.
In order to get fast exposure times use a metal halide or led exposure unit.
1kw halogen exposure unit bulb 120v.
Starting with carbon arc lamps the switch.
Shawn mcpherson of lightspeed equipment explains the history and evolution of screen printing exposure unit bulb technology the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Unlike expensive metal halide bulbs that require regular replacements run at high temperatures and require startup and cool down time the led strips operate at much lower temperatures can last over.