I'm going to show you how to do an ink color change on press coming up welcome
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tutorial so we're running off a job in which we're doing a couple Eaton color
changes well I thought I just so we're running off a job in which we're doing a
couple paint color changes and I'm going to show you guys exactly how we go about
doing that in order to do an ink color change you're going to need some press
wash I'll leave a link down in the description as to where you can find
some press wash and the first thing we're going to do and keep in mind that
when you're doing an ink color change you want to go from your lightest color
to darkest color so we're about to change this blue to black and what I'm
going to do is just remove my squeegee and if you want to clean up your
squeegee and use the one on press that's fine we have another one set aside for
black because we're going to use this blue for another job and I'm just going
to take my ink container and scrape up all the ink
on my squeegee and everything here on press because you don't want to just
waste a ton of ink so I'm just going to scoop up the rest of this ink and this
applies to a manual or an automatic press that really doesn't matter
processes the same really I'm just trying to get up as much of the heat as
possible and let me go other side you're gonna want to wear some gloves because
this is going to be pretty messy so what I like to use instead of paper towels is
we tend to have a job or so on hand in which we perhaps had some misprint so
we're just going to use some shirts on a job that was a famous fret
okay so now we have all of our heat cleaned up we're going to use some press
wash and we're just going to spray the screen generously want quite a bit of
that on there and I'm just going to take my old shirt
here go through get every little bit of that
up you can see there's quite a bit of eat coming up
you only scrape out so much
and you're gonna have to do this a couple two or three times before the
screen is completely clean so that the very first TAS were really just kind of
getting up all this excess ink just trying to clean things down and then the
second and third pass is when we're really just clearing it up quite nicely
and by the way you can't go from a dark color to a light color but it is that
much more difficult to get that darker color out and not show up in your
lighter ink all right so I got me another rag shirt doesn't have any ink
on it and I'm gonna spray the screen down again this time I'm gonna spray a
little bit on and we're going to repeat the process
and when you're doing your ink color change we get up much of the ink as
possible make this screen look like like I did before you put any ink in it
now I'm gonna wipe the bottom of it and we're printing on white shirt so we got
to get this pretty clean on the underside of this all right so we're
gonna do this one more time spray the bottom and this rag should still be good
it's not too filthy from the second path
and one of the things you want to look for is to make sure that your mesh
doesn't have any of that color still in there as you can see you can't really
see any of the blue ink anymore it's just nice and clean and you want to wipe
your bottom wipe your top make sure you got all that press wash out
sometimes if you like say for instance I like to use masking tape so if you're
putting on white shirts you may have to change that masking tape out because it
will tend to soak up some of that color but now we are ready to go ahead and
load up our black ink and do our next color
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