Today we're going to show you how to screen print custom neck tags and remove
the the sewn in tags that came with them coming up
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my screen ready to go and I'm doing sizes small through 2xl and I have them
set up in a way towards where I can use the same screen however what I'm going
to do is I'm going to end up flipping the screen around so that way I can use
basically take full advantage of the screen and all the real estate that
screen has that way we're not wasting product emulsion film and all that so
let's go ahead and dive right into this tutorial but before I do that let me
show you the screen real quick so as you can see I have a couple of my sizes here
a couple down below on the inside of the screen you can see that I do have some
tape over some of the the neck labels the reason why is as I'm printing and
eat tends to go over these labels you kind of want to be able to see how
you're setting up your next label and by taping it that is going to allow you to
be able to remove that tape and you'll be able to see where you're placing your
screen I have them Center marks here and that will help me align each one of
these up and there's a couple different ways that you could set these up but
I'll show you how I like to set it up for smaller runs and bigger runs we
would do it a little differently now explain that here in a moment and
before we get on press I want to show you guys something we do have our shirts
turned inside out reason being is I do tend to like to flip them inside out and
then load them up onto the press and print the tag upside down normally how
you would screen print your t-shirts however you can print them right-side up
and not even flip them inside out you can just load the shirts straight up
with the back portion of the tag everything right side up and print it
that way I find that it's easier using this method here because we're able to
get the shirts on nice and straight we've even seen customers of ours and
bring shirts in that are from custom ink and they're slightly crooked and the
reason is they're using that method where they're just loading the shirt up
instead of flipping them inside out and loading them like you normally would
with a screen print so let's go ahead and get this screen setup on press and
we'll load it up with some ink I'll show you what ink I am using okay so the
first thing I am going to do is I am going to set my face up to do the small
prints and this is one of the reasons I like to do it upside down I can have the
color hang off here and I know that I have this distance here from the caller
to where the printed tag is you don't want it too far down but one of the
issues that can come up as if it's too close to the collar you're not going to
get a good print because your squeegee is just going to kind of ramp off of
that color so I'm just setting everything up and I use clear scotch
tape in this instance just to make things a little easier make life a
little easier when setting all these tags up instead of doing it afterwards
so we have everything all set up now the ink color that I am going to use is a
grey and I like to use grey for even black and white runs reason being is if
you happen to press the ink down a little too firmly you do not want it
showing through the backside of your t-shirt that won't look good at all so I
tend to use a grey this is just a custom grey that I mixed up it was a spot
process cool grey and this is the same grey that I use for a spot process
printing but I also like to use it for my neck tags as well clicking the load
and a little bit of ink here well bit up just below the tag I got my
squeegee ready to go it is a four inch squeegee I'm gonna go ahead and load a
shirt on and show you how I go about doing this all right I got my small
shirt ready to go and I'm going to load this thing straight back and I'm just
centering it hopefully I'm not in the way too much I am just centering it up
on to the pallet I'm going to pull it straight back I want to make sure that
our tag is fairly center with our center line here sometimes they do sell these
tags in a little walking so you can't always rely on that 100% and I'm going
to let my collar hang off just a little bit and kind of push that tag down I'm
going to flatten everything out now keep in mind that you do want to make sure
that this tag here doesn't end up falling down into your print one of the
advantages to actually printing your shirt this way if we're doing a larger
run we would do it towards where the art is right side up or right reading
however you want to word it and then we can take that tag and we just push it
back and tack it on to the pallet but for the sake of this smaller run we're
going to take the shirt and just load it on straight and like I said we I
personally like to do it this way because I get better results getting
things just absolutely straight like they should be
and just push that tag out the way generally I would recommend doing a test
print first but we're just going to go ahead and run with it I'm going to use a
full print so I'm going to flood it up and you don't want to press too too hard
just want to press just enough to get that ain't
to clear your screen and there's our first hit it's looking pretty good
however I think I'm going to hit it one more time you don't have to absolutely
do a solid solid print on your you're inside neck tags but in this case I'm
going to hit it again see if we can't fill in some of this knit here this is a
all style shirt that we are printing on so it tends to be a little more
open of a knit so to speak so that's looking pretty good looks like we get
hit it just a little bit more right there and I think I'm going to use just
a little more pressure just to make sure I clear my screen and there we go
that looks pretty great all of our details are still here let's go ahead
and toss this on the conveyor dryer and we're going to do another demonstration
so we're going to do this one more time again we're loading it up making sure
it's nice and straight and we're just going to lean it off the edge here we're
gonna pull this tag just back just a little bit make sure it's out of the way
now I'm going to bring my screen down I'm going to flood it again you don't
want to press too hard otherwise it can go through your shirt and shove on the
back side and that is a pretty acceptable screen print for a tag
however I kind of want to fill some of this knit up just a little bit so I'm
going to go ahead and do it again a lot of times we do end up printing shirts
with just one hit and it just kind of being a light print so you don't always
have to completely fill this knit in but in this case I'm going to just because
it's all style and it has just a little bit rougher of a t-shirt texture so to
speak
okay there we go that looks pretty good all of our details are still there it
looks like we might have a little bit of lint underneath our screen so I think
I'm gonna hit one more time just to fill that tea in a little bit
do that without losing some of our details here and that looks pretty
awesome so we're going to take this and put on the conveyor dryer and then I'll
show you guys how to remove this tag here the original tag that's sewn in
without ruining your shirt and I'm going to cure this just like I would any other
shirt print side facing up just want to make sure that you have enough clearance
from your element to your t-shirts that way you don't burn anything okay now
that we have some shirts printed off here the next thing we need to do is
remove this tag and you want to be careful because if you cut it improperly
what's going to end up happening is you will end up cutting the seam right here
so what I like to do is fold the tag up just slightly and get it close and kind
of angle the scissors back a little bit you just want to make sure not to cut in
inside of your t-shirt and so I'll follow that closely
just cut it completely off we could trim that little corner up just a touch and
this is a little bit of a tedious process however once you get going it's
not as bad and now when you flip the color around you can't see that there
was an actual tag in there now if you fold it back sure you can but you guys
have noticed if you go to any Walmart Target anything like that if you take a
look at shirts that have a printed tag on the inside you can take it off the
hanger and fold it back and you'll actually still see that tag in the shirt
so that's how you go about screen printing a tag and removing it and as
you guys can see by not going too heavy-handed on the print you don't see
any print here on the backside now I'm gonna show you guys how to go about
setting up the next tag and making sure you don't print your previous tag on
your next shirt now that we have all of our small taken care of now it's time to
move over to the next print so I'm just going to loosen up the screen here and
this is why it's a good idea to have an open head
screen printing press and what I mean by that is you don't have those sidebars
that clamp onto the screen otherwise you wouldn't be able to do this we're going
to line up my center marks here clamp everything down now I can pull up my
tape you want to be sure to use tape that's not going to leave behind a lot
of tack otherwise that can cause some issues and I can just pull this right up
and I'm ready to go with this print I already have my Center mark taped off
now a good idea would be to tape off the back of this print if you are just using
a standard pallet by doing so you're gonna make sure that nothing from this
previous print is going to get onto the inside of your shirt even though if you
did a little bit it's not going to be as big of a deal because these are going on
the inside of a shirt but you just want to make sure that you're not printing in
places you don't want a friend in this case because I am just using a sleep
pallet here my print my other small print is off over here to the side but I
think I'm going to tape it off anyways just for demonstration sake so I can
take my tape put it right over this print here
now we don't have to worry about anything thanks for tuning in I really
appreciate it and I hope this was helpful I'm going to get back at it
because we have the rest of these shirts do tag prints on until next time we'll
see you guys later