Screen Printing Blog

Screen printing tri-blend t-shirts and garments are a great way to increase your profit margin if your printing for customers. But they can also be a quick way to lose money if the prints don't look right and the customer isn't happy since the blank cost for tri-blends is more than cottons tees. So take a couple steps to ensure successful prints on tri-blends and watch your temp, inks and mesh count. When printing Tri-blend garments steps to ensure a successful print are as follows;

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Screen printing on a manual press with two operators is one way to increase your prints per hour. This is accomplished by one operator lowering the screen to the t-shirt, pushing or pulling the squeegee across the screen to print, then raising the screen and while the second operator spins...

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Vector artwork is the industry standard way to create t-shirt designs. But you will be converting raster images to vector files for clients if you end up designing t-shirts or screen printing for clients. In this video we use Adobe Illustrator to convert a raster image to an editable, scale...

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Screen printing discharge ink is water based ink with an additive (Discharge Additive). You can add pigment (color) to your water based ink and also add the discharge additive to the ink to change the color of the fabric by "replacing" the color of the t-shirt with the color of the pigment in the water based ink.

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Waterbased screen printing ink is thin and can make an extremely soft-hand print on t-shirts and garments. However, alot of screen printers refuse to screen print with waterbased inks because there are problems such as screen drying and clogging or under cured inks. In the past most water based screen...

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