Turin Shroud

Experience of producing a visual copy by screen printing technology

What is the Turin Shroud?

Before printing, we must solve a several technical problems:

- How to fix such large piece of fabric for achieving a precision registration of colors

• Treated fabric of special impregnate for stiffening

• gluing fabric to plastic surface

But, the best solution, from our point of view, was to stretch the fabric on a metal frame

For this we made 10 special metal frames

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We stretched fabric on the frame by pneumatic stretching devise with a tension of 5 N / cm

The result was disappointing

After this frame design was changed

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Such large size of frame required changing of printing table

For this we designed and manufactured 2 additional tables

Additional table was independently adjusted for precision colors registration

On these three tables was installed the new main printing table, which was made from the plywood board

This board was covered the sheet of composite material DIBOND

In same time we start test print on the small pieces of fabric

The printing process have 8 colors (LC; LM; LY; MM; MC; MY; K; DM)

The printing process took place as follows

LEFT SIDE RIGHT SIDE

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ERCENTER

LC RIGHT SIDE

LC LEFT SIDE

Printing technique was slightly modified

First printed in the right part of the image from the center to edge, then frame to turn, and printed in the left part of the image, from center to edge too

After printing, to the frame was attached wheels

and than the frame was moved under UV - lamp

All work took 3 months

After that, the Shroud was give to the customer and consecrated in Turin, by imposing on the real Shroud