I'm going to show you how to screen print koozies step by step coming up
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this tutorial okay so one of the first things you are going to need is a
template or way to set up your koozie graphics that you will screen print onto
your koozies and we happen to have this template here that we put together which
you guys can purchase down on our link down in the description so I have my
artwork all set up and this template does have an outline it's two sides so
if you wanted to grab up this template and make your own Cousy palette you guys
can go and check that out but I'm gonna print out this film and then we're gonna
expose our screen and then we're gonna go to press here is our homemade koozie
palette in which you can use the template from earlier to make this print
it out full size or you can use the measurements to make this palette so we
have our palette on prep we have our screen ready to go in which we set
everything up in that same template and we're going to use our registration
marks here in order to line this up nice and center on our Suzy palette that
looks pretty good to me I have my off-contact set that way I've
got about an eighth of an inch
and just a double check make sure my off contact is just fine I'm going to put
some koozies onto a pallet here
so let's go back and double-check okay that looks pretty good to me now that we
have our off contact set I'm going to go ahead and tape up the screen just back
over here I don't really feel the need to tape off this part of the screen
because there is no part of the koozie that will be exposed to this ink but on
this back side I'm going to do it for the sakes of letting the ink go through
the back of the screen here next thing I'm going to do is tape off these
registration and center alignment marks you're doing a multiple color these
registration marks will come in handy but I'm just going to take those off
even though they aren't over the koozies may not turn on the koozies bummer take
them off just in case
the ink I am going to use is NP dry fit white and this is a low cure polyester
ink and I'm using this one because it's koozies and you want to be able to cure
that ink at a low temperature but also to prevent dye migration keeping the dye
from the koozies coming up through this white print alright we're just about
ready to print I got my squeegee keep in mind guys I do have a smaller squeegee
this is a small run or doing 12 of them I have my front and my back print on one
side and because it's a small run I have a set up that way so I'm only using one
screen keeping my cost down if we were doing a large run let's say a thousand
of them I would generally put the front print on one side and then do the back
print on another side and I could actually use a large squeegee to do all
six at once but in this example because it is a small run I'm just going to use
a smaller squeegee and do each side one at a time so we got side one side two
I'm going to go ahead and load up my other koozies make sure I got all of my
stations filled here and we're going to go ahead and run these off and I'm just
lining these up to the edge of this pallet here
and I'm going to take my ink I'm going to flood these prints up the mesh I am
using here as a 156 because we have a little bit more to tell going into this
fish print here generally I would use a 110 but because the amount of detail
going into this print I'm using the 156 there we are there's our first hit looks
like this one could have went down just a little bit not a big deal it still
looks pretty good so let's go ahead and in this case more in the flash it like I
said this step isn't absolutely necessary but I'm trying to build up
enough ink and make this a really bright white so let's go ahead and hit this
again
I want to make sure to completely clear our mesh there we go that looks pretty
good that's a really bright white all right that looks pretty awesome now that
we have our prints all ready to go and we're going to cure them around too much
breathe
here are the finished koozies as you can see they came out pretty nice one of the
things you do have to keep an eye out for is because these koozies are a
little squishy and they do have a tendency to move around all that when
printing there is a little bit of misalignment here where the koozie just
kind of moved just a touch it's not a big deal but just keep that in mind that
can happen and to just kind of take your time with them well that's about it for
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