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So … now what?
So, what would a ban on all Muslims being allowed into the US do?
Well, I don't know. I certainly understand why there are those calling for it but there's a simple point here, as pointed out in San Bernardino:
The attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino last week were discussing jihad at least two years before they opened fire in California, the FBI director said Wednesday.
The husband-and-wife duo "were radicalized for quite a long time before their attack," FBI Director James B. Comey said during an appearance on Capitol Hill. This follows earlier statements by investigators that the shooters had both been adherents to a radical strain of Islam long before the massacre.
And one of them was a US citizen born in the United States.
Certainly, banning all Muslims from entry into the country would probably weed out some potential jihadis. But a committed jihadi isn't likely to seek permission to enter. Not with the condition of our borders. And, on the other hand, I find it completely contrary to what I believe, even though I certainly have a level of understanding for those calling for it.
More importantly, and right's questions aside, is the exclusion likely to do to Muslims here exactly what happened to the San Bernardino male half of the killing team. Radicalize them … or some of them. Homegrown jihadis.
All that said, it certainly seems that a devout believer in Islam would have a higher likelihood of embracing radicalism than some other religions. Part of that is because it is so incompatible with Western values and ideals. So, a devout follower is less likely to assimilate than those of other religions. Couple that with the demands of Sharia law and it appears to be totally incompatible with Western values and ideals (to those who become radicalized because of that incompatibility).
What about them? What does a country do with citizens, or non-citizens for that matter, who don't want to assimilate, don't want to embrace the country's ideals and insist, in fact, demand, that the country change to accommodate their beliefs?
Just a bunch of questions that have popped into my mind as I watch all of the politics of the issue flying around the airwaves.
First they came for the beer …
You have to wonder when the real backlash is going to begin … if ever. But until then, these people are going to push the West until finally the West pushes back. For example, a petition is being circulated and the following letter was sent to the City Council of Munich, Germany:
Dear City council of Munich,
I am writing this letter to bring to your attention something that I and many Muslims believe is unfair and requires attention.
I would like to inform you that the Oktoberfest is an Intolerant and Anti-Islamic event. We tried to ignore the event, but there too many Un-Islamic acts done at the Oktoberfest. Such as alcohol consumption, public nudity etc.
We understand that the Oktoberfest is a yearly German tradition, but we, Muslims, can not tolerate this Un-Islamic event, because it offends us and all Muslims on the earth.
We are requesting the immediate cancellation of the upcoming Oktoberfest event.
We also believe that the Oktoberfest might also offend all the Muslim refugees coming from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan. The cancellation of the Oktoberfest event will help refugees not to forget their Islamic history. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Morad Almuradi
Now, obviously, a tradition that has been going strong since 1810 isn't likely to be cancelled anytime soon. What's interesting about this letter is its effrontery. And note too that it is Saul Alinsky fueled. Focus on the words used – "tolerate", "offends", "unfair". Using the West's own rhetoric against it. Of course, it seems obvious after you read the letter the irony must be "Un-Islamic" too.
But in the West, most folks would say, "hey, if you don't like it, don't attend, don't drink and don't get nude". That's apparently the Western notion of "tolerance". But apparently the Muslim notion of tolerance is vastly different. They want the whole affair canceled because it is "Un-Islamic". And whatever they determine to be "Un-Islamic" can't coexist with them, it must be banned.
Syrian refugees are flooding Germany as we speak. Already Islam is not only large but real in Germany. At some point, when enough Muslims are of voting age, it will use Germany's democratic institutions to elect its own to the government.
Given their apparent intolerance, it won't be pretty if they do.
And, ironically, I think we've seen this movie in Germany before.
Why did he do it!
We're working really hard in the media to avoid discussing the elephant that Mohammad Abdulazeez rode going to his Chattanooga Islamic terrorist attack. Official government sources are working nearly as hard.
"It" let's talk like 'it' wasn't killing 5 men while we're worrying about whether or not he was 'radicalized' or depressed or a wannabe member of ISIS.
There's no evidence he was inspired by ISIS you see.
I'd like to suggest there was no evidence that Major Nidal Hasan was inspired by ISIS either if that's a helpful guidepost to those who are trying to figure out what we can do to prevent people from killing when they think they will gain entry to paradise for killing.
Just because young Mohammad didn't write "Dear Diary, today, inspired by the glory of ISIS and all they do in the name of Allah, I'm going to go and kill some American servicemen" doesn't mean the cause isn't pretty obvious.
He was a lone gunman according to the President, who avoided the word 'Terrorism' like he avoids making useful decisions.
The kid did mention 'becoming a martyr' didn't he? And what exactly does that mean to some people who practice the religion of peace?
Short and sweet.
To the best of my knowledge there's only one world-wide religion that rewards you for dying while killing others. Only one major religion where "becoming a martyr" is a matter of choice. Only one where you get rewards for killing unbelievers.
And based on the xplodidopes who blow themselves up in mosques, even killing 'believers' can get you a reward even if the only difference between you is believing the prophet rose at 6:00 AM every morning while they insist emphatically he didn't rise until 6:10.
In Christianity, you kill yourself, and others, and you are NOT going to get the first class treatment when you get to Heaven's gates. You are most certainly not going to get it if you slaughter innocents first and manage to get yourself killed in the ensuing battle with the forces of goodness and niceness.
Only Islam rewards you with paradise for killing others before your number comes up in the fight, even if you're the one who started it.
But we need to know young Mohammad was doing drugs and alcohol. What we know is it makes him a lousy practitioner of Islam. What we can guess is it could be a factor in why he needed the martyr bonus package to buy his way to paradise.
He was 'in debt' – sure, after you drop somewhere on the order of (easily) $3000+ to buy an AK74, an AR-15 and a Saiga 12 semi-auto assault shotgun, plus the ammo to feed them, and spend time, and money, at a range practicing with them, yeah, you've gone a lot deeper in debt then when you couldn't make that $380 monthly car payment. Now oddly enough, he didn't have that additional debt, until after he'd returned from a trip to the Middle East. I'm sure there's nothing unusual about that though. I came back from Fredericksburg Texas a couple weeks ago, and when I got back to Dallas I went out and bought Heffeweizen and German sausages, so maybe it's a coming back from the Middle East thing to go out and buy weapons and ammo.
Finally, the day Mohammad decided he was ready to 'commit suicide', he set out to shoot, and kill, not just any unbelievers, no, he went off to shoot and kill members of the armed forces of the United States of America. He seems to have had a particular bone to pick with the Marines but obviously he'd shoot American sailors too. I suspect Army, Air Force or Coast Guard personnel who crossed his path would have made their way onto his kill list.
Now let's pack up all those bits of information as we ponder why he did 'it'.-
A follower of Islam, looking to achieve martyrdom, takes a trip to the Middle East for several months, comes back and buys several semi-automatic weapons of man killing caliber, buys ammo for them, practices with them and then attacks the recruiting offices of the United States military. In the process he dies, thus achieving his goal of martyrdom. Before his 'suicide' is complete he kills 5 American military personnel, largely unarmed (because he's a brave warrior seeking paradise), until finally someone puts enough jacketed lead into his nasty little body to put him down like the diseased animal he was.
Should we CARE what motivated him? Isn't it all about the outcome for progressive America?
I don't care if he was depressed, taking pills, in debt, confused or having a bad beard day. He wasn't a good boy, he killed other people for nothing more than being Americans, in uniform.
And he did it, specifically, because his religion taught him that dying while killing infidels would get him into heaven.
It's NOT any more complicated than that.
Is it radicalized? is it terrorism? (yes, and yes).
Who cares, if it's not, it's still Islam.
Now go figure out how knowing it's Islam will prevent the next follower of Mohammed who's 'depressed and in debt' from attempting to do little shoe kissing pork eating Mohammad Abdulazeez one (or more) better.
The head "scientist" of the UN's IPCC has resigned
He's been called a "scientist" for years, but his training is in industrial engineering. He's about as much a climate scientist as I am. However, we've been constantly told that he and the IPCC speak for "science" when it comes to "climate change".
Well, today he stepped down, submitting his resignation amid allegations of sexual harrassment.
I'm talking about Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, of course. Head of the IPCC that has published scare warnings for years, few if any of which have come true.
So why is an industrial engineer seen as some sort of an authority on climate?
Well it's not because of his academic credentials, that's for sure. Instead, its for his leftist credentials:
'For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.'
In other words, his "science" is faith based.
And, the left says we should take him seriously … because, you know, "the science is settled".
Michael Crichton:
'One of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.'
Anyone – do you really believe an actual climate scientist will be recruited to fill the job?
Islam and the West: The problem in a nutshell
An interesting article I think you'll want to read. At least I found it interesting. It discusses the foundations of Islam and why, essentially, it is really not a "religion of peace". In fact, as the author argues, as much as the West would like the name of the religion, Islam, to mean "peace", in fact it means "submit". We've talked here before about the need of a reformation in Islam to reorient it away from violent jihad and to a religion that actually preaches and practices "peace". The outlook isn't very promising. Here's one reason:
The Qur'an contains many peaceful and tolerant verses, and these could well be used to create a genuine reformation — something several genuine reformers have tried to do. But there is a catch. All these moderate verses were written in the early phase of Muhammad's career, when he lived in Mecca and had apparently decided to allure people. When he moved to Medina in 622, everything changed. He was soon a religious, political and military leader. During the next ten years, as his religious overtures were sometimes not welcomed, the peaceful verses gave way to the jihad verses and the intolerant diatribes against Jews, Christians and pagans. Almost all books of tafsir take for granted that the later verses abrogate the early ones. This means that the verses preaching love for all are no longer applicable, except with regard to one's fellow Muslims. The verses that teach jihad, submission and related doctrines still form the basis for the approach of many Muslims to non-believers.
One problem is that no one can change the Qur'an in any way. If the book contains the direct word of God, then the removal of even a tiny diacritical mark or a dot above or beneath a letter would be blasphemy of the most extreme kind.[2] Any change would suggest that the text on earth did not match the tablet in heaven — the "Mother of the Book," much as Mary is the Mother of Christ — that is the eternal original of the Qur'an. If one dot could be moved, perhaps others could be moved, and before long words could be substituted for other words. The Qur'an itself condemns Jews and Christians for having tampered with their own holy books, so that neither the Torah nor the Gospels may be regarded as the word of God. The Qur'an traps us by its sheer unchangeability.
And, as he points out, the most "modern" interpretation does anything but put Islam in a "moderate" context:
Regrettably it is impossible to re-interpret the Qur'an in a "moderate" manner. The most famous modern tafsir, or interpretation, of the holy book is a multi-volume work entitled, In the Shade of the Qur'an. It was written by Sayyid Qutb (d. 1966), the Muslim Brotherhood ideologue often regarded as the father of modern radicalism. His interpretation leads the reader again and again into political territory, where jihad is at the root of action.
So that seems to be where we stand. Here, however, is the problem that confronts the West:
The besetting sin of modern Western politicians, church leaders, and multiculturalists is their ready acceptance of ignorance and their promotion of their own ignorance to the rank of expertise. Islam is one of the most important topics in human history, but how many schoolchildren are given details such as the ones mentioned above in their history classes? How many textbooks paint an honest picture of how Islam began and how it continued as a background to how it continues today?
Furthermore, how many real experts are denied contact with government and politicians so that lies are not made the basis for governmental decisions in the West? How many times will truth be sacrificed to fable while Muslim extremists bomb and shoot and behead their way to power?
These facts do not come from modern Western accounts; they are there in the founding texts of Islam, in the histories of al-Waqidi and al-Tabari. No-one is making any of this up. Muslims who avoid their own history should be brought face to face with it in all future discussions.
But, of course, that isn't what is happening is it? We're told over and over again that Islam is a religion of "peace" by those in the West who would rather believe that than confront the awful fact that its own founding documents portray anything but a peaceful religion — not to mention its history. For instance, were you aware that it is estimated that "between sixty and eighty million Hindus may have been put to death during the centuries of invasions by Muslim armies from 1000 to 1525." That's Stalin and Mao territory.
If you can't or won't deal truthfully with the problem, how can you ever expect to confront it successfully? When you remain in denial and you let the practitioners of the religion also deny the truth, how does one "reform" anything? And what does the continuous denial portend for the West in the not to distant future?
Watching the "progressive" left melt down over the Hobby Lobby decision
While I agree there may be far reaching implications concerning this decision and that the right might not like how all that plays out, I have got to say I have sore ribs from laughing at the hateful, screechy display put on by so-called "progressives" concerning the decision.
The first bit of nonsense they toss around is they're being "denied" some sort of right to an abortion. Of course, no one has denied them anything. Planned Parenthood is ready when they are. Abortificants are available to them through their doctor.
No the problem is they'll have to pay for it, not someone else. They don't get to impose their will on others that don't believe like they do.
And, of course, that just won't do. Especially when it comes to <sneer> "religious" people/companies. Next thing you know they'll be demanding kosher butchers sell ham and the Amish deliver goods by truck.
It is time to stem this tide of BS the left has unleashed. This cobbled up "right" to whatever they want and the equal "right" to have someone else pay for it. The imposition of their will on others to benefit themselves.
Charles Murray explains in today's Wall Street Journal that, in essence, what these people want is their brand of fascism imposed on all of your lesser beings and if they don't get their way they'll throw tantrum after tantrum:
But philosophically, the progressive movement at the turn of the 20th century had roots in German philosophy ( Hegel and Nietzsche were big favorites) and German public administration ( Woodrow Wilson's open reverence for Bismarck was typical among progressives). To simplify, progressive intellectuals were passionate advocates of rule by disinterested experts led by a strong unifying leader. They were in favor of using the state to mold social institutions in the interests of the collective. They thought that individualism and the Constitution were both outmoded.
That's not a description that Woodrow Wilson or the other leading progressive intellectuals would have argued with. They openly said it themselves.
It is that core philosophy extolling the urge to mold society that still animates progressives today—a mind-set that produces the shutdown of debate and growing intolerance that we are witnessing in today's America. Such thinking on the left also is behind the rationales for indulging President Obama in his anti-Constitutional use of executive power. If you want substantiation for what I'm saying, read Jonah Goldberg's 2008 book "Liberal Fascism," an erudite and closely argued exposition of American progressivism and its subsequent effects on liberalism. The title is all too accurate.
Indeed. Murray, however, distinguishes "progressive" from "liberal", by claiming there is quite a degree of difference between the progressive left and the liberal left:
Here, I want to make a simple point about millions of people—like my liberal-minded dinner companions—who regularly vote Democratic and who are caught between a rock and a hard place.
Along with its intellectual legacy, the Progressive Era had a political legacy that corresponds to the liberalism of these millions of Democrats. They think that an activist federal government is a force for good, approve of the growing welfare state and hate the idea of publicly agreeing with a Republican about anything. But they also don't like the idea of shouting down anyone who disagrees with them.
They gave money to the ACLU in 1978 when the organization's absolutism on free speech led it to defend the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Ill. They still believe that the individual should not be sacrificed to the collective and that people who achieve honest success should be celebrated for what they have built. I'm not happy that they like the idea of a "living Constitution"—one that can be subjected to interpretations according to changing times—but they still believe in the separation of powers, checks and balances, and the president's duty to execute the laws faithfully.
I'm not quite sure I agree but if there is a separation between the two, there is one hell of a big, wide, fuzzy border between the two. Given the antics of the left these past few years and their frantic attempts to expand government control along with cultural change while the Democrats hold power causes me to still lump both contingencies into the same hateful mass. Afterall, as Murray points out, "liberal" is a term stolen from an era when it described a group who believed in small, non-intrusive government, the individual and his rights and capitalism. That hardly describes "liberals" today. In fact, at best I'd call them "progressive light".
Anyway, something to munch on as we watch the left continue to throw their juvenile fits over a court ruling that went against them. Now if we can only hope that the court continues to chip away at the oppressive law passed by a Democratic Congress popularly derided as ObamaCare. With each chip and the subsequent acting out by the left, one can only hope that the more moderate in America will become less and less enchanted with their siren song.
On casting stones at same-sex couples
Over at RedState, Erick Erickson promoted a post in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage by "mjdaniels," a Christian conservative and long-time lurker there. It's a long post that makes a number of good points, but he ultimately makes a number of rhetorical errors that give his fellow Christian conservatives an easy way out, and they did fix on those errors. So it is that the people I see praising his argumentation with the fewest reservations are mostly not currently practicing Christians or self-identified conservatives.
Among those errors, the biggest was probably when he said, "Is Homosexuality a Sin? I. Do. Not. Care." Christians are supposed to care whether others sin. The proper question is the duty others have to sinners. And behold all the RedState regular commenters saying that they're called to rebuke sin and lead sinners away from sin, out of love. Many deny that enshrining these rebukes in legal exclusivity is tantamount to "hunting down sinful people," and they claim that it isn't them but same-sex marriage activists who are trying to "wield the power of the government to enforce my convictions on others."
I'd sorely like to see how his fellow Christian conservatives would respond if they couldn't focus on those errors. In particular, I wished "mjdaniels" had better focused on something he only said in passing at the end of his post: that opponents of same-sex marriage were essentially calling for "casting the first stone at" this set of sinners.
It seems to me that when persuading Christian conservatives, one should be absolutely clear that the status quo is coercion – discriminatory taxes and inheritance rules, and denying the right to contract, all of which conservatives agree is state coercion when it's applied to them – and that when Jesus was challenged to support such coercion (stoning a woman caught in the act of adultery, according to Mosaic Law), he in turn challenged the teachers of law and Pharisees that the first stone should be cast by one who is without sin. When no one would stone her, he said he would not condemn her that way either, and he simply told her to leave her life of sin.
If even Jesus doesn't think it's humans' place to punish violations of one of the Ten Commandments dealing with marriage, then it's an uphill climb for a Christian conservative to argue that it's their duty to uphold the use of such force based on moral strictures that are much less clear.
I find it baffling that conservatives think the government is capable of making a compact sacred by calling it a marriage, but there I see it in the RedState comments. Do they teach their children that the state's refraining from coercion is an indication of societal approval of a behavior? No; what is not prohibited is merely left to be governed by the other aspects of civil society (the family, the market, churches, social pressure, etc.) and, if Christians are correct, God's ultimate judgment.
China makes reincarnation without government permission illegal
No, really, you read it right. The Chinese government has banned reincarnation without government permission.
In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation."
Actually, despite the article's claim (and as the article eventually points out), it really isn't as an absurd of an act as it may seem, even though it is certainly representative of totalitarianism.
In fact, it is all about China's war with the Dalai Lama.
At 72, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since 1959, is beginning to plan his succession, saying that he refuses to be reborn in Tibet so long as it's under Chinese control. Assuming he's able to master the feat of controlling his rebirth, as Dalai Lamas supposedly have for the last 600 years, the situation is shaping up in which there could be two Dalai Lamas: one picked by the Chinese government, the other by Buddhist monks.
We can all figure out how that will work.
The Chinese communists surface very visibly every now and then as if to remind everyone that China is far from a free country. And, in such a totalitarian country, no detail is too small for the government to ignore … even something in which it likely doesn't even believe.
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A post wherein I agree with Ron Paul
Actually, there's a lot Ron Paul says I agree with, but there's about 5 to 10% of what he says that makes him, at least to me, unsupportable.
But he and I see eye to eye on this thought (from an article about an interview he did with Candy Crowley):
Paul seemed almost baffled that everyone has been talking about social issues at a time when he and others are more concerned with preserving basic civil liberties and the economy.
Folks, for this election social issues is a loser. Sorry to be so blunt, and burst the social issue's activists bubble, but this is the distraction the Obama administration badly needs and it is playing out pretty much as they hoped, with the candidates concentrating in an area that is so removed from the real problems of the day (and the real problems of the Obama record) that it gives relief.
Additionally, it gives visibility to the one area that usually scares the stuffing out of the big middle – the independents who are necessary to win any election (and, until this nonsense started, pretty much owned).
What is going on now is a self-destruction derby. And the tune is being called by the left (if you think the George Stephanopoulos question on contraception that started all this nonsense during one of the debates was delivered by an objective and unbiased journalist, I have some beachfront land in Arizona for you) and kept alive by the media.
How I see it is Americans, in general, don't give much of a rat's patootie about all this nonsense at this moment in history. They've watched their economic world collapse, they're upside down in their houses (or have lost them), they're seeing their children, great grandchildren and great, great grandchildren enslaved to government debt, they're out of work and they're suffering – economically.
And the GOP goes off on the usual nonsensical social issue tangent when there is a table laden with a feast of issues that are relevant to the problems with which the majority of Americans are concerned.
Take a look at Memeorandum right now, for instance, and what headlines do you see? "Santorum attacks Obama on prenatal screening".
Really? Could we maybe see attacks on Obama for adding 4 trillion to the debt, or the highest unemployment rate in decades, or the failed stimulus, or his persistent attacks on fossil fuel even while we sit on more of it than most of the world combined but are getting much less benefit from that because of him? How about Keystone? Gulf permatorium? Solyndra? ObamaCare?
Instead what sort of attacks are made against Obama? Senior Obama Advisor: Rick Santorum's 'Phony Theology' Comment 'Well Over the Line', which spawned, Santorum explains 'phony theology' comment, says Obama is 'a Christian' which results in, Santorum denies questioning Obama's faith.
I cannot imagine a stupider subject being the focus of headlines at this time in our history nor a worse place for a GOP candidate than talking about other people's faith or lack thereof. There is no upside to that. This is the sort of nonsense and ill discipline that has cost the GOP elections in the past, and is well on its way to doing it again.
The middle is watching and my guess is it is not happy with what it sees. If ever the GOP wanted to lay out a strategy to drive independents back to the Democrats, they're well on their way. They are playing to every stereotype the left puts out about them.
What should the GOP be talking about? Things like this and this. The attacks should be on Obama's economic record and leadership, not who is a better Christian.
Take a hint from the Clinton campaign GOP (as loath as they are to do so, I'm sure): "It's the economy, stupid!"
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Libya: Muslim law and secular dreams
If your hope for the latest version of "Arab Spring" to be found in Libya was a secular democratic state, you can quickly forget the secular part of the dream.
The leader of the transitional government declared to thousands of revelers in a sunlit square here on Sunday that Libya's revolution had ended, setting the country on the path to elections, and he vowed that the new government would be based on Islamic tenets.
Indeed, what has immediately happened is the roll back of many of Gadhafi's decrees that those who've now taken over contend violate Sharia law and Islam's tenets:
Mr Abdul-Jalil went further, specifically lifting immediately, by decree, one law from Col. Gaddafi's era that he said was in conflict with Sharia – that banning polygamy.
In a blow to those who hoped to see Libya's economy integrate further into the western world, he announced that in future bank regulations would ban the charging of interest, in line with Sharia. "Interest creates disease and hatred among people," he said.
I'd love to tell you this comes as a complete surprise, but then I'd be acting like some politicians I know.
I'm certainly not going to contend that keeping Gadhafi was the best thing we could do, but let's be clear, what has happened darn sure doesn't seem to be an outcome that we'd have hoped to see either. At least as it now seems to be shaking out.
In that area of the world, secular dreams seem to me to be the most foolish. How that particular dream manages to stay alive among the elite of the West is beyond me. It isn't now nor has it ever been a probable outcome of any of these so-called "Arab Spring" revolutions. The revolutions are steeped in Islam because the governments being replaced were relatively secular for the area and the Islamic groups now rising were the ones being repressed.
How someone could believe that out of that situation, secular democracy would emerge still remains beyond me. No democratic history, no real established democratic institutions and no real democratic experience by the people there. Yet somehow we've determined that this bunch is superior to the last bunch.
Based on what I've always wondered?
Yet, we continue to hear the hope proclaimed in each upheaval even as reality seems to dismiss the hope at every turn.
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A Cthulhu Christmas ornament for those who wish to celebrate the solstice in a more eldritch fashion!
This cyclopean adornment depicts Great Cthulhu squeezing his massive tentacled form through the hieroglyphic covered door of his ancient stone tomb in R'lyeh and will add the necessary touch of madness to your holiday tree.
Each Cthulhu Yuletide Ornament is hand cast in solid resin and comes ready to hang with a black satin ribbon. Signed and numbered by artist Jason McKittrick
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Thanks for your work. This has been a blast to look through. Love how you used the two set of three eyes! Something mostly overlooked on many peoples interpretations of Cthulh, yet completely changes the overall look. More alien and terrifying in my opinion.
This is awesome!
By the way, you inspired me to make a line of cthulhu idols.
This is crazy beautiful, how long do these take to make? Truly an item for a Lovecraft fan.
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I'm honestly surprised that Alexa is making an appearance in the B/W anime before X/Y come out. I also think that this ep is a good way to show what other moves Gogoat, Helioptile and Noivern may learn in the games.
Yeah and when they will show their moves , Ash n Co. will probably say OMG What a move . I have never seen Pokemon use this move before and Alexa will proudly be standing on top of the world when she hears this.
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Dear Screen Printers,
I am glad to announce that during Screen Print India Expo between 6 to 8 May 2016 there are various seminars on interesting topics by renowned international experts.
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To make your visit at the show productive the organisers of Screen Print India have specially called these experts from USA & Poland to conduct various seminars on interesting topics for screen printers who wants to grow in their business and wants to be productive.
So all who wants to improve their skills and wants to learn from these experts and see new samples and products then kindly register your seats for free.
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My Dear Friends, Well Wishers, Grafica Customers & DMI Participants,
It's my immense pleasure to invite you on 6th May 2016 to celebrate DMI (Dhirubhai Mistry Institute For Print Education, Research, Technology & Training) 10th Anniversary year.
Along with this historical moments we are also launching 3 new products at the upcoming exhibition Screen Print India 2016 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon, Mumbai
So once again it's my sincere request to all of you to please be present as I would like to meet you personally, especially I am eager to meet all my workshop participants and students who have been my inspiration.
You will also see many new ideas, concepts, automation and innovative products which will boost your productivity and profits.
For the first time my close friend and one of the jury member of FESPA AWARDS, Jacek Stencel of PASJA is coming all the way from POLAND to conduct various seminars on special effects screen printing on value addition and packaging.
He will also be carrying many samples for display where you will get to learn many new innovative & creative ideas which will directly help you to implement in your jobs.
You will also get a chance to interact with him and learn everything about special effects inks and designing. His creative samples and knowledge will help you to uplift your creativity and imagination process.
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Before I update you about my last workshop and DMI inauguration ceremony. Please note the dates of my upcoming WORKSHOP at DMI which is scheduled in August 3-4-5, 2015 and the registration has already started filling up quickly. As we have limited seats so kindly REGISTER YOUR SEAT TODAY.
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Today, I proudly announce that your favourite institute for screen printing, DMI – "Dhirubhai Mistry Institute For Print Education Research & Training" has started training programs in full swing. Recently, I had conducted my first workshop on 8-9-10 June 2015 with 38 participants who were really lucky to be a part of this historic moment.
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After a long break, GRAFICA has built one of the world's finest and most advanced institute – DMI, dedicated to screen printing technology.
The new institute is located on Mumbai-Ahmedabad National highway No. 8, around 45 kms from Mumbai Domestic and International Airports, towards the north of Mumbai.
DMI is now fully air-conditioned with complete humidity controlled plant. This demonstrates how a printing company should build a world-class facility and maintain higher standards. At the same time it also showcases how to run a cost-effective production process.
Before conducting my first workshop, we had organised an informal ceremony cum get together on 5th June 2015 to mark the inauguration of the DMI institute and as also our new factory. The event was graced by around 175 guests, including our valued customers, manufacturers, distributors, dealers, industry friends, well wishers, DMI's sponsors, media persons, etc.
In my informal speech I thanked all the guests for gracing the inauguration of DMI. I was touched by their presence because they had come all the way from various places across India and abroad.
As a manufacturing company, by conducting workshops and training programmes, my company, Grafica is giving back to the society. Initially we had the challenge of getting materials free of cost. So, the first company who came forward to support us by supplying inks and chemicals free of cost, was Fujifilm Sericol, I thank Mr. M.N. Subramanyam, CEO of Sericol and his team, viz, Mr. Ganesh Krishnan and Raghav Rao.
We then started getting support from Skyscreen, Indian Dyes Sales Corporation (IDSC), Colors, Print Dynamic, and Technova Imaging Systems, Nikhil Ahuja of NBA Studio, Pune for his constant design and creative support to DMI. These companies are also part and parcel of DMI's success.
So, I take the opportunity of thanking and acknowledging DMI's sponsors. These companies stood by us by supplying enormous quantity of materials and consumables free of cost, of course worth million of rupees every year for research, education and training purpose.
I feel without their generous support it would not have been possible for us to impart free training and achieve success in our endeavour to educate printers.
I presented a Certificate of Appreciation and a screen printed Wine Box, to all our sponsors who have been generous all past 9 years to support us for our noble work.
As always, media has been supportive to DMI's activities. I acknowledge and thank the presence of Devang Sheth, Publisher of Screen Print India; Ramu Ramanathan, Group Editor of PrintWeek India; Narendra Parmar, Managing Editor of Printing Samachar, and Jignesh Lapasia, Publisher of ScreenTex for their personal presence at the inaugural function and subsequent news coverage in their respective magazines.
Click here to view photo gallery of our new institute DMI inauguration ceremony.
This year DMI will complete 9 dedicated years, teaching high quality screen printing process and technology. So far more than 1500 print professionals and students and over 700 companies had registered and taken part in our extensive 3 days workshops and hands on training programs.
Today I am proud to say that DMI is the only Professional institute in the world of its kind which teaches very high end screen printing, screen making, print finishing, textile screen printing and colour management all under one roof.
With our intense research we have developed high quality screen printing process so simple that anyone can easily adopt it in their existing company without doing too many changes or investments.
Many companies use high quality products or let's say expensive products like inks, emulsion, fabrics and even machines but do they have any right knowledge to produce quality output? Even many companies use very expensive imported machines but simply fail to deliver quality just because the method of screen making or printing is wrong.
Moreover, many imported and local machine manufacturers do not invest their profits in training and to provide right guidance to printers. Year after year printers spend their huge profits in consultation or sometimes they have to hire expensive labours who tend to show off themselves as knowledgeable, just based on the 'reference' of working in a good company.
We at Grafica are very focused to give correct guidance and provide right knowledge completely FREE through our institute DMI to all our customers and industry professionals who want to "Learn More and Earn More".
For professionals, we hold 3 days workshop every month on various topics/subjects, and for graphic students we have short-term training course for 3 months to 1 year.
Our workshops are mainly divided into three categories.
- Graphics and Serigraphy
- Print Finishing
- Textile
The information of all our workshops is announced through our website – http://www.graficaindia.com, and magazine – Grafica News India. To register your seats log on to our website regularly.
It's important for you to know that we have limited seats and we allot seats on first cum first basis.
Meanwhile, based on my perception and experience, I would like to correct two myths in screen printing:
- Make screens outside and print in-house – WRONG. In fact I would say, make screens, colour separation, positive output etc. in-house and get your jobs printed outside. Because screen is the heart of screen printing. "Good Screen = Good Prints". If you wish to print in-house then it's very important to make screens and do all separation also in-house to have full control on quality and output.
- Most screen printers especially in textile and garment printing believe that total quality is only achieved by using very expensive automatic imported machines. But as per my evaluation, to achieve 100% quality in screen printing, first you need to have proper knowledge and experience in the following areas to achieve high quality output and the ratio is:
- 40% in screen making
- 40% in pre-press like CMYK, Spot Process Separation, RIP and Graphics Software, Correct positive output, grey balance, dot gain compensation, linearisation process of the whole process, CMYK and Monitor colour profiling, etc.
- 10% on ink chemistry because if you buy inks and chemical from a reputed company most of the technology and chemistry taken care by the manufacturers itself.
- 10% knowledge of machine setting, squeegee, screen setting on press and environment control in the printing and screen making department.
In general, even any expensive imported automatic machine can only deliver 100% results if one has proper knowledge and experience in Pre-Press and Screen Making which is very important.
Otherwise don't get fooled aways by paying double or triple the cost for any imported screen printing machine assuming everything is done by machine because you will only achieve 10% to 20% result if you do not have proper knowledge in Pre-Press and Screen Making.
At Grafica, we do not just sell our screen printing machines like others. We are more focused on education and to empower screen printers with right knowledge, especially in screen making and pre-press. To this effect, we are adopting new technologies and systems to improve quality and simplify printing. Ultimately, we are working hard to raise the level of Indian screen printing to international standards.
One of the major problems in process colour screen printing (halftone) is moire. As a result printers engaged in halftone printing are gradually moving away from screen printing. DMI is now focusing more on how to eliminate moiré problem in screen printing.
To know how join our next DMI workshop on 3-4-5 August 2015.
Come to Learn More and Earn More at DMI.
See you soon in one of my workshops and training programs.
Screen Printing Zindabad…
Bhargav Mistry
I have listed down few important topics and points which are covered in all my workshops. These topics are covered in detailed during my theory sessions and I also explain these points practically which is the main reason why people like DMI because showing it practically helps any ordinary printers to understand the process well.
Day 1:
- Colour management, ICC Profiles & Grey Balance
- How to make ICC Profiles of your own device, press and inks
- GCR, UCR, Ink Densities & Max Ink Coverage
- RGB to CMYK to SPOT Colour separations
- CMYK and Spot Colour Separation using various high-end graphics softwares
- RIP (Raster Imaging Processor) software for positive output directly on Inkjet Films and Thermal Image Setter
- How to keep trapping in CMYK to compensate registration in printing
- Halftone Dots and how to avoid moire using Moire Guard
- Types of halftone dots and shapes
- What is LPI, DPI and PPI
- Image size and resolution
- Calculate LPI vs Screen Mesh combination
- Calculations of minimum printable dot size and line thickness on a particular screen mesh
- Understanding about commonly used Digital Files like TIFF, JPEG, EPS, PSD
- How to increase low resolution image to high-resolution without much compromising quality and sharpness to certain extend (SHOWING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DMI)
- New generation halftone screening techniques (SHOWING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DMI) which completely avoids moire in screen printing and to achieve digital quality image on a traditional screen printing machine.
- Process Linearisation right from software to positives output using reflection densitometer
- Monitor, press, inkjet printer calibration
- Monitor, press, inkjet printer profiling
- Complete workflow of various software to positive output to match colour (WYSIWYG = What you see is what you get)
And much more…
Day 2:
- Screen Mesh Geometry
- Woven Mesh, Finished Mesh & Weaving Direction
- Types of fabric weaving
- Fabric composition and types of threads
- Advantages and usage of various type of screen mesh and its applications
- Mesh selection for a particular job
- Calculations of minimum dot and font size printable on a particular mesh
- Functions and types of screen frame profiles and selection
- Frame size to print area ratio and calculations to achieve close tolerance printing
- Understanding about off-contact distance, peel-off setting
- How to achieve minimum off-contact give minimum squeegee pressure and still achieve high quality prints
- Screen tension meter and how to achieve max screen tension
- Types of screen stretching devices and its advantages
- How to achieve proper registration between each colours
- Screen frame preparation and types of screen adhesives and application
- Cause of screen tension loss
- Mesh degreasing and chemicals to prepare screen mesh before emulsion coating
- Stencil selection based on various types of inks and applications
- Diazo Photopolymer vs SBQ Photopolymer emulsions
- Linearisation of exposing system to achieve optimum exposing time
- How to achieve good edge definition using various emulsion
- Various emulsion coating methods and techniques
- Emulsion coating variables
- Proper emulsion drying process
- Learn how to setup a proper screen making department
- Tools and instruments required to make good quality screens
- Complete stencil reclaiming techniques and various type of chemicals and solutions
- How to make and expose thick film for high density printing
- Chemicals to remove ghost image
- How to increase life of screen mesh and get optimum print runs
And much more..
Day 3:
- Print Finishing, learn various types of Solvent and UV special effect inks and varnish like Gloss, Matt, Reflective, Coral, Bubble, Wrinkle, Fragrance, Thermo-Chromatic, Temperature sensitive, Glow in dark, Metallics, pearl, thick ink printing for special effects and braille, crackle, florescent and much more…
- Special effects screen printing
- Process Colour Screen Printing
- Machine setting
- Setting optimum squeegee pressure and speed
- Off-contact and Peel-off setting
- Importance of squeegee sharpening
- Types of squeegee sharpener and grinding wheels
- How to avoid squeegee lines during printing
- How to maintain squeegees very sharp in long runs
- Selection of squeegee shore hardness for particular job and substrates
- Types of squeegee shore hardness meters
- Types of squeegee and importance of squeegee angles
- How to measure the life of squeegees
- Proper storage techniques of squeegees and flood bars
- Correct selection of flood bar and profiles
- Use of reflection densitometer in CMYK process colour screen printing
- Press linearisation techniques
- How to compensate dot gain/loss on press
- Proper use of UV and maintenance of UV Curing Lamps
- Setting optimum UV speed to achieve correct intensity using various UV Meters
- Various types of dryers and ink drying techniques
- How to achieve smooth halftones and gradients on press
- Proper registration techniques
- Learn how to change over quickly between each colours in less than 5/10 mins
- How to use guides and registrations system for all colour
- Learn various productive methods and techniques to minimise downtime
- Basic maintenance of various machines to get consistency in quality
- Proper storage techniques of positives
- Complete workflow right from setting the machine to final print
And much more…
Five Trends in Screen Printing Process
Trend No. 1: Fast changing image of screen printing:
The very mobile or high end smart phones or iPods, tablets that you are holding in your hands have the imprints of screen printing. The helmets you wear, the bike you ride have designer decals on both sides; the car you drive has the speedometers and dashboards – all screen printed. If you are a cricket fan, notice that almost every bat has multiple designer stickers screen printed, and t-shirts, helmets, PVC cheer sticks, balloons, or flags that the cricket fans are holding in the stadium – all screen printed. And do not forget, we are living in high technology electronic age. Every electronic product that you use has a PCB (printed circuit board) inside, screen printed of course.
A high level team of printing company engaged in automobile and aeronautic decals printing and high end graphics, walked into Grafica's stall at Gulf Print & Pack'13 in Dubai. During the discussion, the gentlemen did not mind sharing with our team that they have as many as 30 semi – automatic and fully automatic screen printing machines! This is the quick glimpse of fast changing trend in screen printing.
So, screen printing is more than what people may tend to think about printing visiting cards, letterheads, invitation by using out dated and tedious method what we call "manual screen printing". Screen printing is an artistic as well as technology oriented process. From its age-old method, 'silk' screen printing has transformed into an advanced technology.
Its distinct advantages: It has its own distinct advantages: versatility, suppleness, wide range of applications, brightness and solidity of colours of outdoor applications, possibilities of special effects in graphic and textile; and wide range of presses available for different applications – Multi – colours press very large size for graphic applications; Multi-colours rotary screens to print textile in roll; possibility of combination with other imaging or printing process (offset, digital, etc.).
The visual impact that screen printing process can create is simply incredible. The durability of the inks, the vibrancy of the colours, especially considering the harsh outdoor weather conditions for outdoor applications such as automobile decals, helmet stickers, indoor/outdoor advertising display boards, etc, (it withstands sunlight, rain, snow, wind, etc).
Applications, unbound: Screen printing has wider applications in commercial graphics (packaging included), industrial (almost every industrial segment needs the imprint of screen printing process), garment decoration and textile printing as summarised below. (It is virtually impossible to list out total number of applications of screen printing process).
Commercial Applications:
• Posters
• Billboards
• Displays
• Stickers/Labels
• Signs
• Flags
• Packaging
• Value addition on offset printed commercial and packaging.
Daily necessaries:
• Toys
• Stationery • Sports goods
• Art (Serigraphy)
• Cosmetic containers
• Toiletry containers
• Wooden products
• Glass & ceramics
• Plastic Cards, Credit Cards
• Foot wear
• Sportswear
• T-shirts
• Ladies/Mens/Kids wear printing (full fabric printing)
• Textile printing
• Heat transfers/Tag-less labels
• Caps
• Jute bags
• Cloth bags
• Garment tags, stickers
• Packaging for Garments/Saree/clothing
Industrial applications:
• Automotive decals
• Automobile meters
• CDs
• Parts of electric appliances
• Membrane switches
• Liquid crystal display
• Automatic vendors
• Metal name plates
• Print Circuit Boards (PCBs)
• Hybrid Circuits
• Solar Cells
• Mobile keypads, iPod, iPads
• Medical patches and many more…
Trend No. 2. Advancement in screen printing technology comes of age:
"Necessity is the mother of all invention." And that applies to screen printing as well.
So, now there are:
1. Screen printing machine (semi-automatic or fully automatic – alas NOT MANUAL tables anymore!)
2. Screen making set up thatincludes: polyester yellow mesh or fabric (alas NOT nylon mesh anymore); fabric stretching unit with tension meter; aluminium frames (alas NOT WOODEN FRAME anymore), emulsion coating equipment; screen exposing machine; screen drying unit, and other accessories.
3. The screen that is the imagecarrier (considered the 'heart of screen printing')
4. Squeegee (the 'heart of thescreen printing machine') supported by a ink coater
5. The substrate on which youprint which depends on the job. (Screen printing process can be used to print on numerous paper and non- paper substrates – both semi- rigid and rigid – pvc, wood, glass, tile, ceramics, fabric, metal, etc).
6. UV Inks, varnishes, UVspecial effects (and emulsion and chemicals needed for screen making) (to be forbidden solvent ink wherever possible since it is hazardous)
7. Drying system to print,depending on the ink used (UV curing, IR/Jet Air/Wicket Dryers as against racking system which requires huge space.
8. QC tools (like tension meter, UV thickness meter, spectrometer, etc)
Trend No.3 : Emergence of Multi-process printing solution & fast spreading value addition concept:
It is believed that screen, offset and digital printing will co-exist for different types of jobs. These days, many offset printers are 'falling in love' with screen printing as witnessed by us during various printing exhibitions. In the last couple of years we received more visitors from offset, packaging and digital than screen printing.
1. Digital-screen combination: This is yet another good sign. There are many digital printers who have also screen-printing units to meet the market demand for 'total print solution'.
2. Offset-screen combination for VALUE ADDITION:
3. Digital, offset, screen combination.
There has been a growing trend of many offset printers and packaging printers embracing screen printing process for carrying out print finishing in house instead of depending on outsourcing.
Why value addition?
Sharjah based Silver Point Printing Press has recently bought one more Swing Cylinder Press with inline UV from Grafica to meet the non-stop and growing demand for value addition which is offered with the application of various decorative UV to give touch and feel effect over duly commercial and packaging jobs.
In today's highly competitive business environment, print buyers are certainly looking for something different which really differentiates them from their rivals. Ultimately, the packaging in a shelf carries its look, its power of attraction for the consumers, and eventually the feeling of touch, or we can rightly say, today packaging is all about sensation – look, touch, feel, smell. Same principle applies to all commercial jobs other than packaging – value addition is a must.
The most promising is the use of a wide range of 'special effects' thanks to the think tanks in the screen printing industry driven by FESPA, an international association of various national printing associations including India.
UV Special effects currently used in the market are:
• Commonly used UV Matt and Gloss
• Pearl
• Metallics
• Fluorescent (glow in the dark)
• Scents / Rub and sniff
• Emboss
• Glitter (silver and gold)
• Sand
• Sensation
• Abrasive
• 3D reflective
• Crystal
• Rough finish
• many more…
Trend No. 4: Focus on Quality, productivity & Standardisation:
Today, with automatic precision machines, it is possible to get a result that years ago would have been a pipe dream. For example, by manual screen printing reproducing photorealistic images on t-shirts was next to impossible, but now with automatic direct to garment textile screen printing machines, garment printers are able to print what the customers want with speed and accuracy.
In India, many of the large screen printing units are matching to international standards, and beyond, in a competitive marketplace because of use of high-level equipment and high – priced consumable supplies.
The industry (customers) allows minimum tolerances for the rejection besides mandating for Just in Time production and deliveries. Today, there exist different systems designed to help the screen printers to achieve better result. But it revolves around the simple concept or standardisation of the entire screen printing process.
Also, Screen printing industry is now waking up to the reality of UV-age. More and more screen printers are now adopting UV and dumping the foul smelling solvent which many feel a curse to the screen printing. Yes in some areas such as decals and industrial printing UV has not made successful inroads and still they have to use only solvent inks.
Shift from manual to automation: In the last decade, there has been steep increase in the number of screen printing machines and UV curing system (also screen making set up) sold in the last couple of years than it was five to ten years ago. There has been a big shift from manual to semi-automatic and now fully automatic system. More and more printers are now adopting automation and using quality raw materials, process standardisation, documentation of parameters for each job since in screen printing every job is a new job involving unique process parameters, use of materials (inks, chemicals, mesh, etc) with different specifications.
Over 50 companies engaged in garment manufacturing as well as garment printers (job workers), and also jute bag manufacturers, have installed our automatic direct to garment screen printing machine along with complete screen making system who had huge manual long tables.
Trend No.5: Growing urge for Education and training:
Screen printing is now quicker, cheaper, produces better quality images and offers a number of special applications. Having advanced machines in place is not sufficient to run a profitable screen printing business. Being able to truly master printing high quality images, using the screen printing process, also takes much longer, because there are a number of variables involved.
Since we started workshops (always houseful with average 50 participants) in our DMI institute in 2006, till today over 2000 printing professionals (owners and staff) from India, USA, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, etc, (screen, offset, packaging, flexo, textile printing segments) attended our 3-day workshops. They were of the opinion that without proper knowledge, screen printing technology cannot be used in a profitable manner.
I would conclude by saying that while technology is the lock, education is the key to unlock the numerous opportunities in screen printing. I leave the screen printers to decide whether to take both (technology and education) or anyone! Those who grab both will stand winners in the market.
Key to success is technology adoption and knowledge up gradation!
"Two years ago, when I saw some wonderful creative samples at DMI institute, I realised the potential of screen printing process … I strongly believe, in screen printing every step is a 'science'. So without learning this 'science' nothing can be printed qualitatively. By learning new techniques we can assimilate it in our daily practice. Mr. Narendra Paruchuri,
Managing Director, Pragati Press, Hyderabad
"You simply redefined the "Screen Printing Industry" of India to a different dimension. In the last six years your institution and activities have grown to multiple folds and you created significant mark in the chosen field. Nobody in India has approached screen printing so seriously and you created an international bench mark for the Indian screen printing industry.." Prof. Dr. Rajendrakumar Anayath, The Technological Institute of Textile & Sciences, Bhiwani, Haryana
Enjoy this cool Sunday…
Bhargav Mistry
Do not make 'mess' by using nylon mesh, use only polyester mesh!
Because polyester mesh is best for high quality screen printing…
However screen printers need to do extensive R&D to unearth solution for their problems. However, to solve the registration miss–match problem, Polyester mesh is now being widely used. Polyester also has different grades. Polyester mesh is available in wide range from 6 mesh/cm to 180 Mesh/cm and various widths, in both white and yellow colours.
At excessive tension levels, the thread reaches to its plastic deformation point, and the screen will be stiff with no longer capacity to hold tension. However, it has been outshined by a new development in thread technology (High Module), which enables to bear the high tension with Low-Elongation for better and consistent print quality.
Polyester mesh is the preferred choice of the high end industries. i.e. electronics industry (PCB, membrane switches mfrs), CD printing, graphic printing, automotive decals, ceramic decals, tiles, glass, industrial labels, textile industry (garments and apparels, tag printing), Package Printing …even for halftone and fine printing like small micro letters, logos in a visiting card.
• High tensile and dyed fabric
• Low elongation
• No deformation of fabric
• Fast & good tensioning
• Quick lifting off fabric after squeegee lifts
• Fast ink release, Easy peel off
• Special fabric surface.
• Good Dimension stability
• Faster stabilisation
• Good durability
• Good resistance to acids & alkalis
• No water absorption
Ink savings: Low elongation means savings in ink, if it is used as per the specifications, instructions and right advice from suppliers.
Less consumption: It retains set tension level, print after print and job after job. This way, minimal distortion enables printers to obtain the most consistent results even after long printing runs. It not only improves productivity but also help reduce rejections.
High tension: Can be stretched to high tensions and maintain tension longer. Tension loss between stretching and printing is low and tension will remain stable over subsequent print runs. Higher tensions on press allow for lower off contact, which prolongs screen life and improves colour-to-colour registration accuracy. It also increases production speed.
Special Surface Treatment: Innovative mesh surface treatment provides improved wet ability and more uniform emulsion distribution. This treatment also ensure strong Adhesion: The mesh has an excellent screen making capabilities with outstanding resolution, resulting in a powerful adhesion to the photosensitive emulsion and tremendously increases the life of the mesh. The increased stencil adhesion properties firmly retain screen dots and fine lines, considerably lengthening stencil life.
Other benefits:
• Less choke up, less ghost image
• Easy to clean (after washing)
• Easy ink flow
• Consistent result
• Makes screen strong
• Preferred for good reproduction of minute details, sharp results
• Good for registration accuracy
• Good for high speed printing
• Increase in quality of job, improved registration due to stable tension
• Squeegee movement: silky and smooth
• High emulsion adhesion
• Stable printing dimensional accuracy
• Faster turnaround time from the screen room to the pressroom (Less tension change over time after tensioning)
Take care…
Bhargav Mistry


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Remaking Mehboob Khan's Oscar-nominated "Mother India" is an unachievable feat, says Vidya Balan and if someone dared attempt this, she wouldn't be a part of this.
As a tribute to 100 years of Indian cinema, Vidya has donned Nargis' look from the 1957 cult film "Mother India" and Meena Kumari's from the 1962-classic "Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam" for Cineblitz's special edition.
But the actress, who entered filmdom with the "Parineeta" remake, has no intention of working in a "Mother India" remake.
"I don't think anybody would even dare to remake 'Mother India' and if someone does then I will salute him, but I will not do it. It is unachievable, really," Vidya 35, told reporters at the unveiling of the cover page of the magazine.
"Mother India" is known for Nargis Dutt's power-packed performance as a righteous mother, who shoots down her son, played by Sunil Dutt, whom she married after the movie, for being on the wrong side of the law.
One of the most expensive project of its time, the film is said to be a remake of Khan's 1940 movie "Aurat" and it was India's first submission for the Oscras for the Best Foreign Language Film in 1958.
Talking about dressing up as Nargis in the same look, Vidya said: "It's an honour for me to have recreated those two images. One is the image of Nargis from 'Mother India' and when you think of those iconic images from the Indian cinema over time, it definitely features in the top 3."
"The other image we recreated was 'Sahib, Bibi Aur Ghulam' and I remember seeing that picture when I was in school and finding it extremely intoxicating," added Vidya talking about Meena Kumari's drunk look from the film.
Vidya is currently shooting for "Shaadi Ke Side Effects" with Farhan Akhtar while the first look of her upcoming film "Ghanchakkar" with Emraan Hashmi has already released.
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