I'm gonna show you guys how to screen print a Bright White water-based print
on black shirts coming up welcome back everybody for new to the channel be sure
to subscribe let's go ahead and dive right into that tutorial so the ink that
we are using we get this from cat spit productions you can use our promo code
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your screen printing supplies or your equipment purchase and what we are using
is the water base Amex ink it is the aqua brand we're going to use this show
you guys how to do a bright white print on black shirt and we'll give it a
little bit of a review as to what we think about this ink as well
okay so let's crack this open and take a look at this ink as you guys can see
looks very creamy here's a little spatula that I'm going to use called a
bucket scoop I'll leave a link down in the description where you guys can get
this but this ink is it's nice and thick for a water-based ink very creamy so
that is awesome
rent that we are going to do is the shop gnome print and I'm going to make sure
this is nice and centered on my press here and I'm gonna make sure it's about
three fingers down from the collar so that the edge of my palate is right here
so we got everything all nice and centered on our press now I'm going to
go ahead and tape off my Center marks and I just like to use regular old
masking tape and the emulsion that I am using guys is you'll a knows TZ emulsion
I'll leave a link down in the description where you can get that as
well and this is a water base emulsion I just have a standard 70 durometer
squeegee here and what I'm going to do is load a good amount of this ink into
the screen you want a healthy amount when you're doing water-based printing
and I'm trying not to mash this ink down into the actual image area that way we
don't end up getting a heavier print down here at the bottom I'm going to go
ahead and slide this up real quick when you are doing water-based printing you
want to be sure that your screen states flooded otherwise it can dry out in your
image area here you also want to be sure to cap off your ink so it's not exposed
to the air and drying out okay what I got here before I do my actual
production run I'm going to take this rag shirt that we've done other test
prints on and we're going to do ourselves a test print or two and see
how things are looking so I'm gonna make sure my screens nice
and flooded I'm gonna give it a nice firm hit
going the back plug my ink
and there we go there is our first hit let me go ahead and give you guys a
little bit of a close-up
you guys can see it cleared quite nicely we generally do this print as a one-hit
print so that way it kind of has that washed look so that is how we'll end up
doing our production shirt but for the sake of this example what I'm going to
do is I'm going to flash this and then I'm going to hit it again okay so I'm
going to bring my flash on over this is just a one station press and I'm using
my ran our flash here it is 18 by 20 and I'm going to let it flash for about a
good eight to ten seconds and see what we got here
great looks like it's nice and / nothing is coming up so let's go ahead and take
our screen and we're going to hit it one more time
I'm going to back flood and make sure my image does not dry out
looking pretty good I think I'll hit it just one more time
a little bit lighter of a pressure
and there we go we have a nice bright white print on a black shirt I'm gonna
take you guys off the camera stand and we'll get a close-up look at that get
ourselves a nice bright white print let me get out of my shadow here but this is
a nice bright white print even with a 195 mesh so what I'm using here is a 195
mesh screen and I got this bright white of a print and you could even go lower
you could use a 110 and get that much brighter of a print and I mean this is
pretty pretty bright so I'm pretty happy with that
and I'm really digging this ink we're gonna definitely get some more of this
and do some more water-based screen printing I am just using a traditional
flash it's not a forced air flash however you will need forced air to
properly cure your shirts we do have a forced air conveyor drier behind me we
are using our good old turbo jet star by ran our it is a 8 foot by 24 inch belt
this dryer has served this quite well and doing both water base and plastics
all printing most of what we do is plastisol printing but we got this dryer
for the sake of hearing our water-based ink and we have our little jet air
button here so we got our jet air on I'm gonna grab
my shirt and we're gonna run through the conveyor dryer and let it dwell for
about a minute and a half it's saying to cure at two hundred and seventy two to
ninety degrees for two to three minutes
I completely forgot about this and was even thinking about it but this is a
50/50 shirt so we do have some dye migration going on it is nice and cured
and we'll show you what some dye migration looks like as you can see at
this point it's not as bright of a white you can see how bright this print is
however you can see we got a little bit of dye migration going on there so it's
looking a little bit gray so I ran off another print here on a cotton t-shirt
looks great I did do just the the one hit like we're going to do with our
production t-shirt because we do want it to have a little bit of a vintage look
and it looks great so you guys saw with doing the print flash print it was a
nice bright white as long as you're not using a 50/50 shirt or polyester like me
like I did in the example you'll be just fine let's go ahead and do our
production shirt I'm going to make sure it's nice and
centered on my palate
there we go going to take my lint roller make sure there is no went underneath
our print and we're gonna do this as a vintage style print in the first example
we did a print slash print to get a nice bright white but here's how you go about
doing a vintage print so I'm going to hit this a couple times just to make
sure we clear our screen and there we have it we have our vintage
print now I just need to run this through the conveyor dryer and cure the
thing
here we go the shirt is nice and cured it looks great feels great it'll feel
even better once this is washed and we're putting down the amount of beat
we're going to get the look that we're after and we're going to go ahead and
pack this thing up and send it to one of our clients Shannon what do you think
about your water-based shirt Wow no really what no I think it looks great
I really do I like the way it is I like the vintage look on it and I like how
smooth it is and I our clients not getting it cuz I'm taking it what I'm
kidding while we're doing it no I'm just kidding
did you feel it yes I did you know what can you tell any difference between this
yeah I can't good softer stop yeah yes good it's like more into the fabric of a
shirt yes it definitely is we need to run off some worse that way we can do a
test wash with this and then see how how much it softens up so we need orders to
miss my arm one of the great things about
water-based ink is that you can clean up with just water
now our screen is all nice and clean we can tuck it away and reuse it for next
time thanks for tuning in I really appreciate it until next time we'll see
you later