What is up everybody it's your boy six color spot process mat in today's
tutorial I'm gonna show you guys how to screen print on sleeves coming up
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into that tutorial okay so obviously the first thing you're going to need is a
sleeve palette we have a tapered palette this kind of helps get the shirt on a
little easier and you're also going to need a automatic size screen this is a
23 by 31 meant for automatics however you're going to need this larger size to
do your sleeve prints because otherwise your standard 20 by 24 frames will not
be long enough to do the full print and I'll show you exactly what I'm talking
about here is your standard screen as you can see the palette actually sticks
out just a little bit past the actual frame here and you're not going to be
able to get a full print that entirely
of your power so having said that we have a pretty simple design that we are
printing you want to load up your shirts from the collar down to the end of the
sleeves I'm gonna line this up and as you can see the seam here you want to
line that up with your center line on your pallet and just pull it all the way
down a lot of times your shirts will have a crease in the center and I can
see this line I don't know if you guys can see it on the camera but I can see
the line my center line and if the crease of my shirt
isn't a center of the shirt I'll use that crease to line everything up along
with the scene over here but in this case there's about three creases going
on so don't always rely on that crease once you have your shirt lined up you
know that your artwork is is lined up appropriately as centered on our platen
and so I'm going to make sure that our shirt fits centered as well so it looks
like this could go up just a touch so it looks pretty good the mean a lot of
times because it is crease it will tend to want to pop up and kind of like it is
here so you can just kind of use your hand sweating down the middle part and
then just kind of spread it out from the center there
this is just a really simple print it's a white print on gold shirt and because
it is a white on a gold shirt we're just using a 156 mesh and we just have to hit
it once just make sure the mesh is cleared and there we go
we have printed our sleeves now what you want to do is kind of pull it up from
both sides slide it off and as you're sliding this thing off you want to make
sure that your print is not going to touch itself so a lot of times what I'll
do is I'll actually hold it on the inside I'm kind of holding it at it
awkward kind of angle at this moment because I'm trying to capture this on
camera but I'll hold it like this and then take it and put it on to the
conveyor like so and I'll show you what I'm talking about
so now that I got my shirt off the pallet I'm just going to lay this thing
down and make sure that my sleeve is nice and flat another way to load it
once you have it off of the pallet just kind of fold it over take it by the
the seam up here at the top of the sleeve it's kind of lay it down like
that you want to be aware be careful that you will have to adjust your
element raise it up and down if you have the building the ability to do that so
there we go there's some tips and tricks for you
well there you have it that's how I go about screen printing a sleeve I hope
this was helpful and hopefully you learned a little something from this and
we'll see you guys next time
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