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Fibrillation
can still occur despite your best efforts, but what is it and how does it happen?
Fibrillation happens when the fibers of a shirt break through the ink deposit,
giving your shirt a faded or fuzzy look.
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Ghosting: How To Handle It and Prevent It
Posted by Caleb Morgan on 8/8/2018
Ghosting can be an absolute business killer in screen printing. Sounds a little extreme, right? Well, imagine completing an order of 500 green garment-dyed shirts printed with a low-bleed white base and the customer comes to pick them up and leaves...
Screen Printing Basics: Properly Coating Screen with Emulsion
Posted by Caleb Morgan on 7/31/2018
Coating your screens with emulsion can be a tricky part of the screen printing process, but it’s not impossible by any means; just keep these guidelines in mind and you’ll be coating screens like a pro in no time.
Screen Printing Side Hustle 101
Posted by Caleb Morgan on 7/20/2018
Picture it,
you’re in the middle of corporate America. A soul-sucking, never-ending 9-to-5
train going nowhere fast. You dream of freedom; being in control of your income
and your time. Fortunately, it’s 2018 and it’s never been easier or more
possible now to start a side hustle. It’s going to take a lot of work to get
your side hustle off the ground, so here are a few tips to get going.
The Proper Environment for your Screen Drying Space
Posted by Caleb Morgan on 7/12/2018
In order to set up a proper space for drying screens, we first need to understand why we need a specific environment for screens in the first place. The UV sensitive nature of emulsion makes it paramount that a dark space be used in working with coated screens that haven’t fully cured yet.
Easy To Use Waterbased Inks - Finally!
Posted by Allen Wesson on 7/3/2018
The term 'waterbased ink printing' seems to many screenprinters to be a term akin to voodoo or dark magic. You have heard of it, you believe that maybe some people can do it, but the topic seems so mysterious to you that it might as well be a myth. Indeed, waterbased screen printing differs from standard plastisol printing in a number of ways, both beneficial and perhaps more detailed and intricate.
Screen Preparation: Screen Degreasing
Posted by Angel Peterson on 6/11/2018
In the screen printing preparation process, degreasing the screen is an important step. It is not wise to jump directly to coating the emulsion onto the screen when it has not been cleaned properly.
A Perfect Match: Picking the Perfect Mesh Count
Posted by Angel Peterson on 5/2/2018
When it comes to screen printing, the most confusing part for many is picking the correct mesh count screen. Choosing the correct mesh count is an important step in the screen printing process because it can determine the outcome of the print.