In today's tutorial I'm going to show you guys how to use the flattening
screen that showed you guys how to make on the automatic coming up welcome back
let's dive right into that tutorial here's the flattening screen that we did
make let's go ahead and load this in the press and I'll show you guys how to work
it how to use the flattening screen that is okay I got my flattening screen all
loaded up on the press my weapon of choice as a lubricant for the squeegee
is going to be our CCI International coatings plastics all foil adhesive it's
worked well for me in the past and we don't use a whole lot of it so this is
just going to stay inside the screen and it won't dry up theoretically if you
guys are watching this and your kids and your left me for you guys on a manual
press check out our video here the only difference is you will not be using
silicone spray it'll save you some money and it'll keep silicone from getting all
over your shirts we have had some issues with using a flattening screen in the
silicone spray sometimes your print can wash up
what you'll need is to use a heart durometer squeegee that way it can
really press down on those fibers matting them down flattening out that
print giving you a smooth print or base to work with in this case we're going to
do a print print slash and then we're going to use our flattening screen to
flatten down those fibers getting rid of that fibrillation
something you had to consider is your squeegee angle you want to make sure
that thing is just about as straight up and down as you can possibly get it what
that will do is really press those fibers down back down into the plastic
salt and pour your water basing that will give you a flat surface to
overprint your colors on okay so our test subject is a good old guild in five
thousand you guys know how these shirts tend to be notorious for having
fibrillation so let's go ahead and do a test print and I'll show you guys how it
comes out
all right so here's our test print as you guys can see there's plenty of
fibrillation going on here now we're going to show you guys how
this comes out using the flattening screen okay we got
the back of our shirt loaded up let's do a test print and use our flattening
screen and see how well it does
here are the results of the flattening screen the ink is completely matted down
it's nice and smooth let me get you guys off the tripod and show you exactly how
this looks close-up if you're on a manual press you can go ahead and use
your same screen again to do your second hit of white for those of us on an
automatic press you will have to have a second screen just right after your
flattening screen to print your white again or you can let the press rotate
around we're going to go ahead and hit that white one more time just so you
guys can see how smooth this white print ends up with the second hit
and there we go here are the results with the second hit it is really bright
in nice and smooth here's the different side-by-side this is a shirt without
using the flattening screen and here's the shirt with the flattening screen
some tips to keep in mind is to be sure to use your flattening screen
immediately after your flashing station otherwise it will have it's fine I got
them come here Paulo otherwise will be too
much time in between getting to the flat otherwise it will be too much time in
between your flattening screen and you're flashing station for it to cool
down and it will not work thanks for tuning in guys I really appreciate it
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