Today's tutorial we're gonna show you how to screen print on some backpacks
coming up welcome back everybody let's dive right into this tutorial so here
are the backpacks that we are going to print and how we're going to print these
is where you're basically unzipping these things and going to load these up
sideways so I basically loaded up one of these backpacks onto the press took my
art my film lined it up took my screen set it up on press make sure it's gonna
hit where I want it to let's go ahead and load up art screen and then we'll
ink it up and I'll show you guys what ink we are using
the ink that I will be using to print these bags is one stroke ELT X white and
it's really great for doing items such as poly bags nylon bags it has a very
low cure tip and we highly recommend them we'll leave a link down in the
description as to where you can find their information and let them know that
Matt was my key design since you and as you can see this ink is fairly creaming
sometimes I do add a little bit of reducer to it but it flows through the
mesh really well and we have had nothing but great results with this thing and
for those of you that are curious about these bucket scoops I'll leave a link
down our description where you can find those as well because they come in very
handy
okay so we're going to take the open end of this pocket here you would think that
you just print them like this which you could if you have a hold down however
because there's the two pieces of material your bag will move and shift
where if you go to print them so this is the easiest solution for us so the first
thing I'm going to do is I'm going to do a little test print just to make sure
our print looks as it should
and I'm just using a test pellon we'll leave a link down a description where
you can find these you go ahead and hit that one more time
okay make sure that we don't have any pinholes looks great move this out of
the way
so what we're working with here is a fresh sheet of pallet tape got some
fresh adhesive down hopefully this little piece here doesn't affect
anything we try and get this up he'll on step two pretty good alright so we're
going to load our backpack on we'll do one of them and take a look before we do
the entire run just to make sure everything is in place where it should
be and with this particular backpack it does look like it's ripstop nylon so I'm
trying to line up the actual nylon nice and straight that way our print looks
nice and straight alright that looks pretty good
so what we're going to do we're going to flood our screen
and we're going to give this a couple hits and see how it comes up
that looks pretty good I'm not even sure that we really need to even do a flash
however I do you see a little bit of a thin hole right there in the middle of
this cross so I'm gonna see what I can do to clear that out but this looks
pretty good so I'm gonna take this off and we're gonna run it through the
conveyor dryer and be careful not to let this fold over on itself because there's
no way of blowing this out with a blowout gun so you have to be very
careful okay we have our dryer set to a fairly low temperature and this ink will
set at about 265 degrees which will not affect this bag but we just need to make
sure that we actually hit that mark and we're not going over that and my dryer
the height of the heater is actually set to about five or six inches just to make
sure we don't scorch any of this bag
so we're going to use our temp gun and make sure that we are reaching 265 looks
pretty good about before if it comes out the end it's nice and cured didn't melt
the back any so aside from clearing up that little pinhole there we're good to
go and we're gonna run off the rest of them
in order to clear out that little dot right there I'm gonna take a little bit
of screen opener hit from the top hit it from the bottom a little bit and let
that do its work for about a minute or so and I'm gonna wipe it off and I'm
just gonna use a spare rag that's sitting around the shop and come up
underneath it as well just wipe my entire image area I'm gonna do another
test print just to make sure everything's still cool and then we'll
proceed
alright looks like that cleared nicely that little whatever was blocking our
screen is gone so let's go ahead and proceed with the rest of these bags ok
so we're good to go to print the rest of these I'm going to do this in real time
just to show you how quickly we can actually print these keep in mind when
you are doing such a specialty bag at this it is going to go a little slower
than it would if you were doing t-shirts so you should be charging a little more
for such a print looks like we're nice and flat
you hit this a couple times
no it's awesome let's keep going I'm going to toss this on the conveyor
on that
if you want to catch the bags at the other end panda to be awesome the bags
that are coming out the conveyor dryer
here we are with the next bag
just hitting it a couple times and I'm just continually just checking just to
make sure the crimp
looking nice and it is
again I'm just trying to line
this ripstop nylon up as strays I can
something you want to take into consideration as your squeegee angle and
how much ink that you are depositing and I'm using a fairly upright position so
about 45 degrees that way we deposit as much ink as we can as you can see my
squeegee angle here give it a few passes
still looking fantastic
and as you start to do this you'll get a little little faster getting used to
load these things up
see if we can get it with one pass what's good to me
drop one and the the reason I'm able to at this
point start to do it with one pass is the ink is starting to flow through the
mesh really well and in order to retain well the camera died in the middle of
doing the run I was going to show you guys the whole run and kind of give you
guys some advice but one of the things their ghost panda back there but one of
the things I was kind of pointing out hopefully I don't know if it caught it
or not but these came in poly bags so you definitely want to charge for
unpacking them okay its FedEx because it does take more time to print backpacks
you want to charge a little more we generally charge 50% more just take some
more time let's show you guys the the finished product but before I do that I
don't think I mentioned it just yet I am using a 156 mesh so you want to use a
little bit more open mesh if you are using white such as we are in this case
let's go ahead and show you those bags so here we are here's the finished bags
all 23 of them and they came out pretty nice nice and centered
everything looks level and I think our client will be very happy with them well
that's about it for this video guys I hope you learned a little something turn
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