By special requests I'm going to show you my settings for the V squeegee and
how we lay down some white ink coming up
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now that I have my screen all lined up on press I'm gonna take my squeegee
install in the press and then I'll show you the angles that is my preferred
settings where's that that are yeah country talk country talk alright guys
so here we are here's my squeegee so just take note of where these are and
I'm gonna explain it here in a moment so this lever basically raises and
lowers the carrier to set way and get your squeegee in and out and I am using
a 80 excuse me it's a 70 90 70 durometer squeegee it still has the softness of
the 70 durometer but has some strength to it so it doesn't flex a whole lot and
for me that works really well in clearing the white eat through this mesh
I am using a 195 mesh and the reason being is I tend to use a higher mesh
count in order to get a softer print yet I still get a bright print but I'm not
building up a ton of ink I'm just gonna go ahead and set my squeegee in the
carriage and put my kid in so we're all nice and secure now the first thing to
these settings as far as what I like is I'll lower my squeegee all the way down
towards where it just bottoms out and then I'm going to tighten up this lever
here which is the one that secures the carriage from going up and
down so now we're all set I'm going to move my squeegee back a little bit what
does I want it to I basically have a piece of tape under here that will keep
the squeegee during the printing process you got print on and as your palette
comes up this will tend to rock back and you can have your pallet stick to the
screen and pull up some of your emulsion so I tend to put a piece of tape under
there so I'm just gonna roll this back kind of rock it back secure this into
place we have three handles here right this one raises and lowers the squeegee
we got that one nice and secure we got it all drop down now this first one is
for your print angle and as you can see the block bumps up against this little
barrel right here and what I like to do is I like to make sure that this is all
the way down towards the front and I'll secure that down it's that way I'm
getting the most straight up-and-down angle as possible now as far as the the
flood angle you'll have to kind of adjust that by your own preferences but
I tend to put this right at about the middle sometimes depending on how long
your squeegee blade is you may be a little bit towards this side or that
side of the center in other words the further this thing is towards this
direction here the less flood angle you're gonna have
because it's gonna stop it so at this point we're not gonna be able to flood
anything and all the way at the back you're gonna get a really great amount
of a flood angle and what that is going to do is it's going to press down the
squeegee into the mesh and that can be an issue when you have a flashback going
underneath it and if pressing the actual screen down towards the flash itself so
what I'll do is I'll put it somewhere in between and then I'll adjust it once I
got ink in there depending on how well it's flooding or how much it's actually
pressing down into the actual screen itself I'll adjust that but I tend to go
up just a touch above the middle because that seems to flood the ink the best
without putting too much pressure down onto the screen itself and I'll show you
what I'm talking about here in a minute so the eat that I do like to use is
Wolfe flexes epic amazing bright white it is very creamy it goes third screen
really nice and I don't have to add any reducer and produces a really opaque
print so I'm going to go ahead and take this and load my screen up with some of
this ink
so I'm going to take my ink I'm going to give it a good stir and I'm going to put
a sufficient amount and I don't want to press it down into the image area
because what that will do is essentially make you deposit more ink than necessary
on the first pass and it will take a few passes just to
clear your image up and to make it actually print right so this is enough
ink for starters you guys will notice with the V squeegee as you do tend to
print the ink will collect at the back of the V squeegee just by the action of
it being up like this and the ink just kind of dropping down behind it so
that's something to keep in mind and to keep an eye on your ink loaded up as
necessary take your as we have here and I'll leave
a link down the description where we got these every few dozen prints I'll
actually take my spatula and scoop some more ink back up behind the squeegee but
this is good for now so I'm going to take this and I'm actually going to
flood up my ink or flood up my screen excuse me now we're pretty much ready to
go we just want to make sure that we have
the the squeegee essentially has ink on both the front and the back so that way
it's not pulling the screen towards the back you don't want to dry screen
because it can throw your registration off alright so at this point we really
haven't talked about the pressure knob right
how I like to go about adjusting the pressure knob is I'll just take a shirt
just any old rag place it on to the pallet and then I'm going to move it
underneath my screen so at this point we're going to turn print off which will
turn our squeegee on and one of the things I want to keep an eye on is how
much the back of this blade is actually pushing down on - you can see my hand
here how much it's pressing down onto the screen
it's pressing just a little bit just enough towards where it's going to
actually flood my ink and it's not pressing the actual screen down too much
now if I hit table up what that will do is that's going to rock the squeegee
forward and you can see just how much pressure on the actual squeegee itself I
think we're just about in the ballpark but I'm gonna go to the other side and
adjust it a little bit and do it by fill not only that we're going to do it by
spill and we're gonna take a look at how well it is actually clearing our print
so at this point I'm happy with my flood angle and we're just going to make sure
that we have a good amount of pressure down we don't want too much towards
where is going to actually push the ink down through the shirt and onto our
pallet so I generally once I set this I set it and forget it because all of my
squeegees are pretty much the same but I'm going to do this just for the sake
of demonstration so I'm backing it up you can see the squeegee blades giving a
little straighter right but we want a little bit of tension on it as you
adjust your knob and one of the things you can pay attention to is a gap
between this block and then this stop barrel right here is
sometimes you can get it separate a little bit I mean if you're using a 72
rahmanir squeegee this definitely will separate but you don't want it the curl
up so much towards where you're using the flat side you still want to use that
edge and have a curl up just a touch towards where you're putting enough
pressure down to clear the screen so once it starts getting a little tight
that's when I use that as my basis and then we'll see how it does and you can
kind of see my angle here where the squeegee is bent up just a little bit
like so however it's using the edge of the blade here is the the other edge
right there so it is using this edge down here to actually cheer-off the ink
rather than using the flat side of the squeegee to smash it through you want
the shear through
okay so at this point I'm going to turn my flash on and I'm going to make sure
it is in print flash print mode or you can do it in print flash print flash
mode and when I up and table down on the
press we have our flash coming out it's that way we can do some test prints and
see where we're at we may initially turn off the auto flash
just to allow this to do a couple hits in manual mode and completely clear the
screen we might do three hits just to clear it and then we'll do a flash and
then after that we'll do we might we may do a hit on the flattening screen and
then do another couple prints on top just to show you how this white comes
out I'm using a water-based pallet adhesive I'm gonna use a little bit of
just water and a spray bottle getting a little low in my water but it's just a
regular spray bottle we're going to take our scrub brush you got excuse me that
just fell on the floor get all the excess lint up and then we're gonna
swing it underneath the flash and let it flash a couple times that way it's nice
and tacky
a palates all nice and warmed up is tacking we rejuvenated that water-based
tack now I'm going to take a scrap t-shirt I'm just going to load it on to
the press
make sure my t-shirts nice and flat we're gonna put it underneath the press
and then we're going to the print a couple times just to make sure we clear
the mesh and I'll show you guys what to look out for with the press of manual
mode I'm going to hit the manual button and I'm just going to go and let this
hit a couple times and see where we're at okay that looks like it cleared
pretty nicely I'm going to give it a little bit of a close-up
looks like the mesh cleared pretty nicely it is our first couple of prints
so the ink is still flowing through the mesh after doing a test print another
test print after this if your eat is not completely clearing you may just want to
add just a touch more pressure and see how that works out for you but I think
at this moment we might hit it just one more time to see how it's doing it looks
like it cleared really nicely now let's take a look at our print so here we are
here is our print everything looks like it cleared nicely it's a fairly bright
white print for the first base hit without any kind of flash or anything
like that looks nice and clean none of the edges are blurring your or anything
like that and that's because we didn't put we didn't match our ink through so
everything is nice and sharp so at this point now what I'm going to do is I'm
going to flash this and then I'm going to send it underneath my flattening
screen just to mash down some of these fibers and that we're going to hit it
again and see how it looks
all right our base is nice and flash and we're going to go ahead and send this
over to the flattening screen now we're going to want to send this print over
nice and hot over to the flattening screen so I'm gonna table down let my
flash go over the front and then I'm immediately gonna go to my flattening
screen and we're going to go ahead and hit that really hard to wrong there
squeaking sometimes you can just do it once and it's just fine most time that's
what we do but I'm gonna here for the sake of this demonstration is a 92
rahmanir over here on the other side
now we're going to rotate this back over to station one with our white and we're
going to go ahead and hit that again generally I would do this kind of print
it with two white screens that way I can hit with the flattening screen and then
print that white on top you can do a print flash print kind of situation but
this will make for a better quality print having two screens for your wife
one 95 for the base 2:30 for the top friend hit it with the flattening screen
you'll have prints as smooth as butter
and as you can see we've cleared our screen really well everything is
completely cleared and now let's get a close-up and here we go here is the
final print it is a very bright white even for a 195 mesh doing this I can
actually see some of the texture here and the t-shirt we got ourselves a nice
flat print and our client would be absolutely happy with this as you guys
can see you may notice that we do have registration marks so this is going to
be a four color print which we're doing for a client but while I had it set up I
want to show you guys how we go about doing our white base our settings for
our V squeegee and then just kind of explain if this war just a single color
print just like this we would use two screens and keep an eye out for a future
video I'm going to do separation video and show you how this print turned out
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you'll see how this print came out thanks for tuning in I hope this
tutorial was very helpful for those of you out there that do have a V squeegee
style tough workhorse automatic press and hopefully this will get you closer
to solving your white bass or your white screen printing
was until next time whoa we'll see you guys later oh I'm
gonna talk about whoa I just sound silly in those proper-- I don't