Success With Rotary Screen Printing

But, while business was ready to grow, Interstate press operators were busy learning to use the rotary screen units and prepress employees were learning to make screens—two different learning curves, said Karl Kendrick, plant manager.

"Operators learned to use the unit relatively quickly, maybe a month or so," he said. "There was more of a learning curve for prepress. Learning to make screens took several months, about three to four months. And there's definitely a learning curve for knowing what inks and ink coatings work together—those are lingering issues that we dealt with six months to a year down the road after training."