we're going to show you how to keep your shirts from sticking on the bottom of the
screen after you flash your underbase and start doing those over prints coming up
welcome back we're going to show you how to keep your t-shirt from sticking to the bottom
of your screen once you do your over prints and what it takes is just a proper selection
when it comes to your under face and also your over print color so what we're starting with
is a 195 mesh for the white base a lot of times the problem with the shirt sticking to your
under base print or your over prints is you're putting down too much ink using 195 will help that
situation because you're not putting down too much ink your ink won't be tacky so that way it won't
want to catch on to the bottom of that screen not only that i would recommend staying away from
screen printing your white base flashing it screen printing that white base again and flashing it
in order to get a bright white and what we like to do is use a second screen for the white
that will keep that bottom layer of film your white base from building up and wanting to
be tacky you'll also not use near as much of your white ink and it will reduce your
flash time as well i also like to use ulano cheesy emulsion will flex epic amazing bright
white ink and 230 mesh screens for my over print colors and the great thing about the tz emulsion
is it doesn't have a real thick buildup of a stencil you're putting down less ink using
less of that white ink you're flashing a little faster so you can keep production
going and we'll we're setting up a job now in which i'll show you just what i'm talking about
we've got our screens all set up on press everything's registered
all of our registration marks are taped off mario at this moment is putting down some pallet tack
and something i want to point out is you can look at these pallets and you can tell that they've had
a lot of prints on them so it's not going to be the stickiest that it might that it possibly could
be however if you use a higher mesh for a white base you'll have less of a chance of your t-shirt
sticking to the bottom side of your screen right mario all right mario's been printing for 15 years
what do you think about when someone uses a 156 or a 110
as a white bass and then they print flash print flash it does it stick to the screens oh yeah
there you go it's a lot of ink another little tip that will help is warming up your pallets
before you start printing the press is all finished warming the pallets up if you're on a
manual you can do the same thing by just rotating your pallets underneath your flash until they're
nice and warm that'll help things flash a little bit faster and you can print your shirts faster
and get the job taken care of a little faster instead of waiting for your pallets to warm up
and that's when the ink will tend to stick and you'll get inconsistent results
how we got the press set up we have it in cycles mode we are doing the white base print print flash
we're hitting it with a flattening screen then we're doing our golden yellow red and then white
we are flashing the golden yellow once so cycles mode essentially allows the press to kind of act
like a manual press in a sense that it will print the yellow flash that will print the yellow again
just to make sure it's a bright yellow so here we are in the white base just hitting it twice
we've got this set up towards where we have our front and back print all on one screen
and it's coming over here and flashing
we're flashing it to about 235 degrees somewhere around there for a couple seconds
and then we're hitting it with a flattening screen i'll leave a link up in the top corner
so that way you can if you want to make a flattening screen out of what you already have
that tutorial will be helpful and here we're dry to the touch there's no tackiness to it
you want to make sure that your base is flash enough towards where it's not tacky
otherwise they will stick now we're moving on to our red we're just hitting that once
then we're moving on to our yellow it's wet on wet and you do want your ink to build up on
the bottom of your screens as you can see there the red is built up on the bottom of the screen
next this is going to go over to the flash and we'll flash these two colors here's what
we're looking like after the initial hit of the base the red and the gold
and then that's coming over to the flash we're flashing that red and the gold
now the shirts are coming around it's flashed it and it's doing the last run the golden yellow
and the white we're hitting those all once and here we are
t-shirt perfection so there you go that is our process for screen printing a bright white
and keeping your shirts from sticking to the bottom of the screen if you're new to the
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help our channel out until next time we'll see you later you wanna you wanna chunk the deuce mario
see you guys later now i just have to figure out how to actually make it stick for the thumbnail
darn it it still didn't stick not like come on
thing you're supposed to do the home alone thing hold on