man's magic on the press dude look at that
it is a lovely day out today and i'm going to bring you guys along for the ride
and show you what we got going on so we got a lot of cool prints that we're doing today
mario just finished reclaiming a bunch of screens we're just kind of letting them air dry out in
the sun because we kind of need to force dry them pretty quickly today we have these screens
over here ready to go for a job i'm currently working on some film right now they're sharing
the shop gnome looking at vacation stuff i guess i just wanted to know what my surprise
was here's some of the film that i'm working on we have a few eight color seven color jobs
that we need to try and knock out today we got our last piece of film coming out here
i can tell mario is out there coating some screens shannon's still in vacation mode
oh maybe that wasn't the last one
all right we got the the press all tore down we have our screen sitting around
because we're going to use pretty much the same colors we're going to register everything up off
of this black screen here because we're doing white shirts with a seven color
wet on wet print and all these squeegees sitting up here we're gonna use the same exact colors
and then we have two other jobs we're going to do using the same colors because it's all spot
processed so it makes it pretty easy and that right mario right and then once we get everything
registered up we're going to just scoop the ink up out of these screens normally i would be
a full and scoop them up and put them back in the container but mario enlightened me
and i was like hey why don't we just scoop them into the screen it's the same colors
yeah why do more work trying to make mario do twice the amount of work
not really all right
just like long time ago taking pictures i'm taking moving pictures
so what we're doing here is we're printing on two blank white shirts flashing them so that way
the two of us can go around to each of these stations register a couple colors
at once so we'll be doing two screens at a time and it will make things a lot faster
so this point we got everything registered uh mario didn't put his squeegee in but that's all
right i'll do that all right all the squeegees are in we're gonna let it go around do a test print
with basically the ink that is just sitting on the squeegees and once they get all the way around
we'll know how much to adjust each color we'll tape everything off and then we'll rock and roll
all right we've got our first test print coming around
registration's looking pretty good test print looks pretty good you all like that
shabba i'm getting better yeah i'm getting faster but we got some pinholes that just need
to be taped off um and the red could maybe come that way just a hair aside from that
i think we're good to go all right we got the screens taped off mario's finishing up the
last screen over there we're all inked up in every single station
now we need to do just one more test print just to make sure we have all of our pinholes and then
we'll be good for production got you okay that's not a problem i just i i wanted to get my hand
all right here's the test prints looking pretty good just got a couple more pinholes
we're going to tape off and then we can get at it all right we got our shirts on the table
first round the shirts are going down we're gonna crank these out 72 shirts not that bad
so
mario was trying to hold my hand but we had to stop oh come on
no we had to stop because a couple little pinholes were showing up and then missed a
little pinhole there not a big deal gonna tape them off and keep on trucking
every time
we can put it
bye at this point mario's breaking down the press so we can get going after this next job
when the process of exposing screens and we got a couple cool prints coming up
we got our last screen all exposed did a total of
man 15 streams there's apollo mario's already registering up the first set of seven screens
so there those are these are the screens we just exposed
literally moments ago it's so hot outside they dry that quick
we got some test pellons going around i'm always wary of doing these things
because they tend to like to set on fire for me or fold over like that
so we got a white base going down we're flattening it we got red we got a mono blue we got yellow
we got green we got gray and then our white top and i'll show you how this thing looks
there we go looks just like the artwork
and that's one of the reasons i don't really care to use these things if you don't have enough tack
down they'll slip right on over and fly up burn up but they work okay so at this point
we're gonna tape off these screens get the shirts ready probably cool down for five minutes and get
after it all right we're throwing down some of the first shirts we're hitting the base twice
we don't have a ton of ink in here because we're literally doing about eight shirts flashing it
we had the flash turned down a little bit because we were doing those tesco lines and we forgot to
turn it back on so started having to stick to the bottom of the flattening screen but
here's our flattening screen i'll leave a link in the corner so you guys can see how it's made
and then we got our red going down
our blue
along with the yellow we're hitting the yellow twice just to
kind of help the image out a little bit we're doing the green twice as well just to kind of
pump up these two colors here so it was kind of a little heavy on the red side then we got our gray
see the greens going twice then we're hitting it with a highlight wire dang that looks good
and then here's the finished product here looks pretty awesome got a little bit of a
vintage vibe to it there's a little bit of a close-up of the the graphic
looks pretty cool
see those half tones in there
got a tank some soldiers pretty awesome
all day and then just grab them yeah that's true all right so we've got it's too bad you're
in here i'm filming you you're part of the vlog you're crushing your head you we can't even see
you you're like in between uh anyways we've got the the next job set up or starting to get it
set up mario's got the white bass down flashed it going around um and registering the screens
so here we are the fresh screens ready to go this one has eight colors so we're getting rid
of the flattening screen over there here's our other screen set aside in which we're just gonna
scoop the ink up toss it in there run off another print of that so we can both register at the same
time or what make it go fast you got it you want practice that's what it is right he's getting good
i was like damn these past few jobs you registered them up and it's like man it barely needed any
adjustment it's like mario mario's he is the tri-locker mario's the tri-lock he just he gets
he gets [ __ ] done super mario no we're not gonna call you mega mario what was it i was watching the
that the nintendo thing last night and they had some other name that i thought of anyways i'll
i'll think of it aside from super mario let us know what we could call mario he needs a nickname
aside from his name mario and not super mario he doesn't like this
we don't call her fish girl though that's just rude that's just racist
no she's the one that came up with it i know she is but still i'm not going to call her fish girl
we're putting it in our business card that's what she wants
why do you think i haven't bought him yet i'm like i don't feel right about it
it's what she wants can you repeat that one more time so it's on camera who broke your throat
people probably look at me finding like man
i gotta well your parents already know they already know how you are
they've watched me walk into enough walls yeah you're their child so
hold on a second here damn it what happened to the wrong color huh yeah you see kids it happens
at least something's on fire this is true but i do have to go
and clean the spring out with some deep wash
but the following
this palette having red ink on it we got everything inked up mario registered things up
go around the press and just kind of show you what we're looking at here
he's finishing up the the last screen i'm excited about this one just as cool as the other
i'm the only one that's excited about it
letting it go around and hitting everything twice this time around aside from this wide base
let's see how it turns out
it is pretty good it's gonna look awesome i can already tell just need to do a couple
a couple more test prints let the ink build up some more
look at that ryder look at what is that on here uh his hand with the heart in it
well yeah it looks pretty good not that anything's wrong we just need to change the color
that that turquoise to that that darker uh
yeah that will flex turquoise it's a little too on the blue side
all right switch the colors out it's looking pretty good we're gonna start taping off the
screens and we're gonna get after it oh i can't hardly hold it i probably messed something up
we're gonna get after that i saw wasn't that a good idea that's a good idea all right we got
everything taped off we're gonna run off one of the shirts just to make sure everything's okay
this is another 10 shirts and i'm sure they'll look great hopefully we
yeah ken says she charged uh she charged now all right we're going to let this go
around and then i'll show you it in action as it does as it does 10 shirts 11 a.m
there we go what do you think mario magic looks great magic mario there we go magic mario
there we go look at that that's what this man's magic on the the press dude look at that it's
blinging and everything look at it look at that all right chin magic mario now she's looking
directly at magic mario and that hole right there is saying what you looking at my woman for
we're off to the races we got our white base going down
hitting it twice i think this time we decided just to hit everything twice to see how it
would come out just trying to give it a little more punch we're flashing it we don't have a
flattening screen this time because we are using eight screens the flash does take up stations
however because this is a pretty short run we don't really have to worry about the ink
curing in the screen for a larger run would let things go a little slower the uh the reds
for i think it's because we had it set up like that from the last run that was our
flattening screen but we're gonna leave it the way it is here's our yellow blue
green the uh the turquoise didn't go over here mario i was like why is this thing printed
we got the we got turquoise going down apparently i was out mario he's giving me a hard time
on his his fifth full day on the job
wait till date number 500 tomorrow have me crying we got our gray going down
then last but not least we have our our white going down
mario's rocking the ponytail
y'all put down that on an etsy t-shirt and there we go you all saw the first one so but there it is
pinching mario well there we go boys and girls it's been a long day
got a lot done mario's gonna go cool off in the breezeway uh we do like that print enough that
we're gonna print one for the shop and then shannon's over there looking for some shirts
and uh we're going to run those two off and take the weekend off and thanks for
tuning in we'll see you all next one and we'll see you in the next one