REAL T's
1648 21st Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94122
WebSite http://www.sirius.com/~rael
E-mail Rael@sirius.com
July 17, 1997
Stretch Devices Inc.
C/O Don Newman
3401 North I Street
Philadelphia, PA 19134
Dear Mr. Newman
I run a one man manual textile shop. I both print artwork my customers provide as well as create artwork for the needs of my customers.
Some time ago I switched over to Newman Roller Frames. Coming from wood frames that seemed to work well for my needs, I researched the competition and found yours to be the superior brand on the market.
Part of my research included reading several articles directing folks who wanted to print process and simulated process to use a retensionable frame. Something I didn't comprehend at the time though was how it was going to effect the outcome of my spot color work. Sure I realized that wood frames would lose tension, but I worked around that by flash curing most of my work to keep the edges from smearing. To my amazement this process was almost completely eliminated when I started using your roller frames for traditional line art, four color process with or without solid or process additional spot colors. I now save money on my power bills and can produce BETTER LOOKING and FEELING shirts as well as save a lot of time when it comes to printing the job as well. Previously with low tension wood frames, an eight color job could take me approximately three minutes to print when having to flash cure often. Now I print the same eight color job in less then one minute. It is a rare occasion that I have to flash cure anything anymore. Funny thing is, these weren't even benefits that I was aware of at the time of my purchase.
Using your frames has heightened my abilities in the aforementioned ways as well as printing on darks. Discovering I need only to print with one stroke on one color jobs and only needing to flash the underbase and highlights on all others.
Wood frames would eventually warp (if not come warped) as well as lose tension quickly, needing replacement often. A factor I had never really considered. I just figured that was part of the game. I've never had to replaced one of our frames. Why would I? What's to go wrong? Any warpage or lose of tension can be adjusted with a quick turn of a wrench. Thanks for crafting such a consistently fine product and putting me on the path to being as good and as fast a printer as anybody out there.
Rael Razor / Rael T's
P.S. How about developing an unbreakable mesh…..Just kidding.