In today's tutorial will show you how to get a bright white print on a black
t-shirt and how to cure it coming up
what is up gang Matt with Mikey Designs here let's dive right into that tutorial
ok guys in order to get a bright white print on a black t-shirt the the shirt
that we do have that we are using there's a next level t-shirt I'm just
going to go ahead and load it up on the pallet as usual and we are using the
shop gnome print we're using a 195 mesh with our epic amazing white bright by
will flex this is our go to ink and essentially if you want a nice bright
white print you just print flash print with your white we coated these screens
one-on-one again we're using a 195 mesh the brighter you want your white print
the lower mesh you'll use but you'll end up using more ink we tend to like to
stick to the higher mesh counts because we're not using as much ink and you're
still gonna get a bright white print and it have a little bit of a nicer feel to
it so here we go I'm gonna go ahead and flood it using a fairly upright position
I tend to like to do a push stroke and you just want to make sure you
completely clear your mesh as you can see here our mesh is nice and clear and
then there is our first print as you can see it's a little marbled and that's to
be expected because you're kind of pressing the ink down into the fibers of
the shirt we're gonna send this over to the flash and then we're gonna go ahead
and print it again
okay we went ahead and flasher Inc nothing is coming up on my finger so I
know it's ready to go it still has just a slight bit of
tackiness you don't want to cure your ink you don't want to flash it too long
otherwise when you do your top print that top print will wash out over time
so we're just gonna give it a flood and then we're gonna give it just one good
firm press let's go ahead and try a second one if I see you like it it looks
like you hadn't cleared quite completely now it's nice and cleared and we have
ourselves a nice white bright print and again this is using a 195 miss let's see
if I can get it to focus a little better there we go and that's about it I mean
just do a print your first print give it a few two or three hits until your mess
completely clears because we were using a lower mesh it is a little harder to
clear if you're using a 110 a couple hits or maybe even a hit well clear it
just depends on how firm you are if you're using a manual and automatic
probably would clear it in just one hit because it can put more pressure down
then you flash it and to give it one more hit you just want to make sure you
play your mess and there you go guys I'm
going to go ahead and take this off of the pallet and toss it through the
conveyor dryer
and to cure ink we tend to like to run our somewhere around 350 just to make
sure it completely goes through making sure the ink really completely goes
through the entire layer of film curing it completely and here we go it's a nice
bright Fred as you can see I'm stretch it doesn't crack and we got ourselves a
nice bright white print the key to getting a nice bright white print on a
black t-shirt is to use a lower mesh screen either a 1 10 156 195 even or 200
it just depends on how much pressure you're putting down your squeegee angle
will determine how much ink you're actually putting down give it a couple
hits flood it hit it a couple two or three times until the mesh completely
clears and you're putting that eat into the fiber of the t-shirt you don't want
to press too hard that weight you're squeezing the ink through the shirt down
onto the palate go ahead and flash that afterwards once
you flash it it's nice and tacky there's nothing coming up on your finger be sure
not to over flash it otherwise when you do your top print that top print will
wash out once you flash your underbase or your your first hit of ink go ahead
and hit it again sometimes hitting it once will work you just have to keep an
eye on your mesh make sure all that ink is completely cleared that mesh if it
hasn't to go ahead and hit it again until it's completely cleared the higher
the mesh the harder it's going to be the clearer it
and I hope this helps you guys thanks for tuning in guys
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