Let's talk about loading and unloading and unloading Inc let's get into it now
I know that this may seem like basic stuff but I feel like I have some tips
and techniques set available to help you guys out and gals that's guys specific
but screen printers here we are on press and I'm setting up a job I've already
loaded some deep into a couple of screens so this made me think if I could
show you guys how I go about loading ink into the screen generally and this is
for manual presses what I like to do is put the screen in between two pallets
and then I'll set my feet it's put back in to the screen
one of the things I'll do is I'll get the ether good stir what that will do is
help kind of break down some of the molecules it just kind of thins it up a
little more so it's easier to work with it's that way you're not trying to do
that whole process in the screen itself so I'm going to give this a little bit
of a stir
and hold my container
if you want to do this set your eating down you can grab some from the bucket
just put us closer you can set way you're not getting any ink onto the
palate
so now we have this one loaded up let's go ahead and do the next colors here we
are with the court this is you know hey eat so it is very thick so I'm going to
give that a good stir again you can set it over here to the side or when you're
loading ink into the screen one of the things you can do is you can put it in
your screen and then paint the screen up now you'll notice that one of the things
you want to not do you don't want to mash it into your image area sometimes
it might be a little unavoidable but that will create inconsistencies so you
want to be sure to put it in an area that is not within the image area
all right one more color just about how this bluey and you give it a good stir
there's actually electric blue or neon blue maybe even a fluorescent blue I'm
just gonna put it down at the bottom of my screen out of the image area as much
as possible you can see that I put some on top of the image area but what I'm
doing is I'm pressing down over here just below it even though it's spreading
over the top it's not that big of a deal you just don't want to press it down
into your image area now that we're all finished with this job what I'm going to
do is get rid of the excess ink on my spatula here and then I'm just going to
gently scoop up the remaining ink I'm going to take my squeegee I'm going to
do the same thing
taking the edge of the squeegee excuse me the spatula scraping it off of the
squeegee and I'm just going to put that back at container say as close as I can
to the screen
they even hold it over the screen here if you happen to have a rear clamp type
of head like we do on our press here you want to be careful not to push too hard
here without the back otherwise you can tear your screen so we just want to make
sure to get up as much of the ink as possible so that way you're not wasting
that much and you'll use less ink wash in the process so you're using less ink
less ink wash as well and we're good to go I'm gonna leave my head down undo
this little clamp knobs that release the bar here and I'm just going to pull it
up that way my head doesn't just pop up
if you happen to get a little ink on the palate like I did here instead of wiping
it up like I did in this situation sometimes I it kind of escapes my mind
that a better way to do this is to run it under the flash dryer let it cure
under the Flash dryer a little bit
now that it's cured under the flash dryer what we can do is we can just
fill it right up toss it in the garbage thanks for tuning in I really appreciate
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