Screen Printing Blog

Tips for Screen Printing with Plastisol Ink. Use as high mesh count as you can! Plastisol will go through high mesh screens. Don't force the ink into the shirt fabric. Plastisol is meant to sit on top of the fabric- Forcing ink into the shirt fabric actually makes plastisol muted. Use enough force when printing to clear the ink through the mesh and leave the ink on top of the fabric.

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Choosing the right screen printing mesh can be the difference between a good print and a horrible print. Most new screen printers will reach for 110 mesh. This is a mistake. Screen mesh should be chosen wisely. One common myth is that a high mesh count will not let enough...

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There are two ways to screen print with a squeegee, either push or pull the squeegee. Pulling the squeegee toward you is the traditional method, but I usually push the squeegee when manually screen printing for long periods of time. Before you push or pull your squeegee to print you...

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We create t-shirt designs in Adobe Illustrator and export the majority of our designs as PDF files to color separate in Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Illustrator is the best choice for creating vector graphics for screen printing t-shirts. Using vector graphics for your t-shirt designs keeps the design crisp with the ability to scale the design up or down without losing resolution.

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Off contact is the distance between the bottom of the screen mesh and the top of the garment being printed. In general you want to use as little as off contact as you need. Off contact distance typically varies from 1/32" to about 1/4" inch depending on the type of...

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