Screen and Screen-Set Record Statuses

Abstract

Both an individual screen, and the screen-set to which it belongs have life-cycles, although the life-cycle for each differs.

The status indicator for each object denotes where each is in its respective life-cycle.

This topic outlines what the various statuses for Screens and Screen-States are, and what they mean.

Terminology
Although it is the stencil that is held on a screen that denotes its status within the life cycle the term “screen” is generally used as it covers it during the periods it is not associated to an image.

Screen Status

The status for an individual screen is very straightforward and denotes its manufacturing state.
That is, whether it is:-

not made,
in process of being made
made.

In terms of standard traffic light icons employed throughout strokeone, this can be summarised as follows :-

Screen status	Colour	Meaning
	Red	The screen stencil does not exist.
	Amber	The screen stencil is in the process of being manufactured.
	Green	The screen stencil has been constructed.

You can view the status of an individual screen on the screens tab of the screen-set record that it is a member of.

Screen-Set Status

A screen-set is made up of one or more individual member screens. By contrast to the individual screen, the life-cycle of a screen-set is more complicated.

It begins with the screen-set's creation, to its final checking, to its usage in the print process, post usage washing, and then its filing.

Additional statuses denote whether the screen set exists as a :-

full set
or
partial set.

Screen sets can also be flagged as a priority for checking, or indeed flagged for reclaiming.

The Statuses for a Screen-set can be summarised as follows :-

Screen Set status	Colour	Meaning
	Red	No screens in the set exist.. (see note 1 below)
	Amber	One or more screens in the set is in the process of being manufactured. (see note 1 below)
	Navy Blue	All the screens in the set have been constructed, and are placed in the final check area awaiting a final check before usage. (see note 1 below)
	Green	All screens have been constructed, and are currently employed (or just about to be used) on a production screen print job.
	Yellow	The screen-set is being washed. (post usage)
	Sky Blue	The screen set has been washed and is filed as a full set (that is, all screens in the set are present.) The set will either be filed in:- the warehouse's screen archiving area - in which case the location field will be populated with its whereabouts. the pre-check area (i.e. the screen set is required again) - in which case, the check-over flag will be enabled as black
	Pink	The screen set has been washed and is filed as a partial set (that is, one or more screens in the set are missing / damaged and will require construction before the set can be used again.) The partial set will either be filed in:- the warehouse's screen archiving area - in which case the location field will be populated with its whereabouts. the pre-check area (i.e. the screen set is required again) - in which case, the check-over flag will be set as black
	Dark Pink	Following on from the partial set status, above, when one more screens in a set are missing, and the whole set is required on a another job, the missing screen(s) will need to be constructed before the job can be done.. Whilst, this re-manufacture occurs, the partial set is placed in the part check area to await the replacement(s) to be made, and then the whole set is reconciled and subject to a final check before being used again.. The dark pink status indicates the partial set is in part check awaiting the manufacture of the missing screens.
Note: Should a screen split during a print run, the screen-set statuses will flash on and off to denote the urgency with which the replacement screen(s) should be constructed and provided back to the print job. See dealing with splits during a print run for more information,

You can view the status of a screen-set in the Stencils Required screen.