what is up everybody Matt with Mikey Designs here today we're gonna do a
little tutorial on how to screen print water-based inks also be sure to check
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welcome back everybody here is our artwork it is a promotional print or it
will be for promotional t-shirt that we're going to include in a box along
with some other goodies like stickers and pins here's the ink that we are
using it is arrow text black from Union eat it's the water base eat we're doing
a black print on white t-shirts we're using the gilded soft style t-shirt
they're not too expensive they're little softer and I think the new potential
clients that we handed out to will enjoy them so let me go ahead and set the
camera up and give you guys a look as to how we're doing okay gang we're all set
up we're going to ink up the screen as you can see with water-based inks they
are very very thin and very runny and you're going to need a good amount of
ink because what you want to do is you want to back flood your screen and keep
your mesh that is open completely covered with ink otherwise it can dry
out as you're printing t-shirts so you have to constantly keep your image area
flooded and we'll show you what we're talking about here in a second
it practically pour it out really now we have a good amount of ink down I'm gonna
grab my squeegee and a t-shirt okay let's go ahead and flood this up
make sure our image area is nice and covered going to put a little spray tag
down don't really need too much because this is a pretty simple print on white
shirts but I do just want to make sure the t-shirts not coming up we're running
off about 24 of these guys and this is going to be a back print
okay
so now let's go ahead and do this print you have to excuse me
I'll maybe end up doing this is a whole print because it it's making it a little
difficult because of the stencil here I'm getting a little bit of drag once I
hit this top graphic so I'm kind of having as you can see I'm getting a
little stuck there so I'm kind of having to go ahead a little bit of an angle and
there we go the print looks nice and crisp we're gonna go ahead and toss this
on the conveyor dryer and we'll do another print all right guys load up
another t-shirt you give this another run I'm going to do a full print this
time that way I'm not getting stuck at the top part of my design
one of the things about doing a design like this with a bunch of horizontal
Texas is it makes it a little more difficult to do this print because the
edge of your squeegee just gets hung up on it especially if you're doing a push
print so I'm going to do a pull print this time
to give it a good pull flood back I'm gonna do it one more time
there we go that looks great okay guys so here is a close-up of the finished
friend looks nice and dark they have some half tones in there everything
looks pretty crisp so now what I'm going to go ahead and do is toss it on the
conveyor dryer okay guys before I toss the t-shirt onto the conveyor dryer I
just want to mention that you will need some sort of method to remove the
moisture from the t-shirt in our case we have a ran our turbojet star and it is a
forced air dryer right now we have the jet air on
we have our temperature control set to 900 and our speed set to about 20 and
that is allowing the shirts to come out bumps it in at about 330 degrees you'll
notice that the speed of the belt is slower than what I normally would run it
at I generally run it at about 35 and the dryer at a thousand degrees so this
allows it to dwell in the oven chamber a little longer and evaporate all the
moisture from the t-shirt so here comes our shirt
when it's free too
a little higher than I would like it to be but
actually that's not that bad okay
everything's all nice and and dry and it looks great even though
water-based inks are a little trickier to deal with one of the positive sides
is cleanup watch how easy to clean up of water-based ink is you guys
that's it no chemicals to spray just rinse it down pal
all finished alright guys that's about it for today I hope this video is
helpful for you guys out there that are new to water-based green printing if you
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