hey everybody this is Matt with Mikey Designs and today I'm just going to show
you a little video of me screen printing a six color spot process job on my
manual press here and so I thought you guys might like to take a look at that
currently I have all my shirts set up on my printing boards here and everybody
knows how to do that enough kind of run them under the flash dryer which is on
the other side over there and so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to start
printing these the the reason I have the camera kind of set up right here at the
moment it's kind of in between my flash dryer so it's not sitting there over
flashing the t-shirts it's not over flashing the the under base which I'm
going to do that here real quick in front of you and then I'm going to kind
of step off to the side so that way I can actually get these things under the
flash gear so excuse me that's the white top so here we are the white underbase
I'm just going to flood it and then I'm going to get our two passes just to make
sure I clear the mesh and you can see that there it's a nice white underbase
the camera is probably making it look a lot brighter than it is but the
underbase always comes out to about an 80% gray so I'm going to go ahead and do
all six of my boards real quick
which means I have to step off over here
but this shouldn't take too long
hope everybody had a great Memorial Day weekend and hopefully everybody got to
do something relaxing and this I did the separations on this particular job I
designed this in-house from a brother Josh which before I will check out this
video too but I did it the separations in separation studio and it works really
well all I have is six colors to work with so I'm new designing this thing
that I was going to have a white underbase and a pic ray they highlight
white and then the the other colors I'm working with is purple yellow and green
you can see how that works here in a moment
so I'm going to let these remaining shirts here just flash for about eight
seconds or so so just bear with me and
coming up here in a moment we'll have six shirts that I'll run off in front of
you so hopefully you'll you'll learn a little something
that you haven't learned yet and we're flashing our last shirt right now okay
so here we are we got a white underbase our next color up is going to being this
purple which there's very little of it you're really not going to see a whole
lot going on with this that purples down here in the shorts and right here
in the hood of the car this is for my brother again Josh he breaks his asphalt
and I decided to kind of sponsor this design and his t-shirts for them this
year so so here we go here's the next color that's yellow obviously and I'm
doing these wet-on-wet I'm not going to be doing any flashing and sometimes I
can get away with with hitting this once for for each color but you'll see it as
I go down the line that some of these colors need to be hit twice just a
completely clear the mesh that's all I'm trying to do is make sure the mesh is
cleared and then here we go this green this is actually a neon green and I
think I'll probably hit that once because it looked like it cleared pretty
good and looking at at the camera here it
you're really not seeing all the cool little detail try and focus in take the
camera off the stand I think this is one I probably just need to hit once and
then that was our gray obviously and now we're going to do our white white top or
white highlight whatever you want to call it and so there it is I'm not going
to take it off just yet just so I can go ahead and run through some some more of
these and just kind of show you how this stuff works
so I'm going to move through these a little quicker now set purple I'm going
to do twice just because I want to make sure it's nice and bright this yellow it
just depends on how well it clears I think it cleared pretty good that time
the same thing with this green it's been clearing pretty good because it's not as
stick as song as you these inks
and so there we go there's shirt number two on to the next board that passed up
my purples
go ahead and hit this place
I cleared pretty good and notice that I'm taking take my time with it I'm not
doing superfast prints here and that's just to make sure the the mesh has not
enough time to let the ink pass through and lay onto the t-shirt
there we go there's our net shirt moving on
looks like that cleared pretty good and one of the things you might not notice
it might not be all that obvious is I'm holding the the squeegee fairly upright
except for on that yellow because I went too much yellow going down what I've
found is the more upright you can hold this thing the more ink that you're
going to put down the more you have it at an angle you're just kind of shearing
it off and you're not really going to put down a kind of aim so that gives me
a little bit of control over how much things going down with purple I'm trying
to put down as much as possible there's really not much there in this case it
might have almost been pointless to print it but you can see it I don't know
if you can really see it but he's got some purple down his shorts right there
I can hold this one fairly upright because I want to make sure this bring
excuse me green pops well and the grain this one's pretty important too because
these metal looking numbers and I just do a tutorial to show you guys how
actually go about getting this type of look on the grasses okay so here's our
last shirt I'm going to go ahead and run this off real quick and then I'm going
to take the the camera off the stand
and hopefully we'll get to be able to see a little bit better representation
is the how this thing looks because my camera is an iphone and it's not always
the best camera when I've been doing videos or sending images to clients
sometimes the colors a little often looks a little weird so I have to you
know really show these guys what it looks like just give me one moment again
this is just going to be a quick little cut as it started Brittney's again um
one of the things is I just wanted to kind of show you how the the white
underbase look let me see if I can't get this focus because when you're backed up
you know you're back away it just kind of looks like you know the whole body
just kind of looks like a really bright white and truly because these are 230
mesh screens 55 lpr really the white is more like an 80% white and so I just
kind of wanted to show y'all some of these details here zoom in a little bit
so you can actually see what I'm talking about as far as how the the whites
really an 8% gray and and just want to show you some of these little details
that go underneath all these colors
and so you know it's back to the regularly regularly scheduled program
hey guys we're back I got the camera off the stand actually only hit the button
to turn it off when I did that but all getting a little closer and let y'all
kind of look at some of the details and hopefully you might be able to see the
actual dot pattern there see how that comes out I did this at 55 LPI ha oddly
enough my brother's numbers 55 but there's there's a little bit of purple
right there and in the hood over here normally it was red but I just switched
it out for purple you can kind of see some of the little details here and
here's all the sponsors and everything let me zoom back out so you can kind of
get a overall picture here and one of my favorite parts about this is this I
write here and we just kind of get you some of the halftone dots and you can
see that the yellow mixing in there and whites and grays a little highlights and
whatnot and you see there's a little yellow there and I really enjoyed doing
this design and so I just wanted to show you guys how would go about printing it
even after doing the design is over with and I'm not sure if I missed it a little
earlier but perhaps I'll do a tutorial and show you guys how I did this 55 here
but I'm going to go ahead and take these shirts off the board and finish this job
up y'all let me know if you have any questions please subscribe and like my
videos and I've got some more coming for you it's been a little while but
thinking about doing some more of these videos showing you how actually krypton
these things so all right y'all have a good one