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Buying Your First Manual Press? Here's 5 Factors You Should Consider
There are a few different kinds of screen printing presses you can choose from, but most individuals and smaller businesses start with a manual press....There are a few different kinds of screen printing presses you can choose from, but most individuals and smaller businesses start with a manual press. Good screen printing equipment pays for itself. If you buy for tomorrow and not for today, you’ll not only have a better product, but you’ll be setting up your operation
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4 Materials to Screen Print that Aren't T-Shirts
One of the many great things about screen printing is that you don’t have to print only on t-shirts. You can print on just about anything — cardboard...One of the many great things about screen printing is that you don’t have to print only on t-shirts. You can print on just about anything — cardboard boxes, tote bags, and wood are a few examples. These items are pretty common in the screen printing industry, and knowing the nuances as well as a few tricks can help you
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How to Choose the Right Screen Printing Machine for Your Shop
Finding the perfect screen printing press can be overwhelming. With all of the information out there, you can easily get turned around and confused just...
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4 Trusted Methods to Selling Used Screen Printing Equipment
One of the big issues a shop runs into when they are thinking about upgrading is what to do with all of their used screen printing equipment. Upgrades...One of the big issues a shop runs into when they are thinking about upgrading is what to do with all of their used screen printing equipment. Upgrades will always make your screen printing experience better, but you still have to deal with getting rid of, moving, un-installing, selling, and trying to recoup some money
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How to Screen Print Multi-Color Plastisol Heat Transfers
Heat transfers are useful for many reasons. You can use transfers for live events, brand shirts with neck labels, and for customers who order in low volume...Heat transfers are useful for many reasons. You can use transfers for live events, brand shirts with neck labels, and for customers who order in low volume but order consistently over time. Creating a one-color transfer is a simple process. Things get complicated when you add multiple colors. In the video, print expert
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Designing for Screen Printed Multi Color Heat Transfers
Designing artwork for screen printing is an important first step to ensuring a good print. You need to take print order, color shift, trapping, choking,...Designing artwork for screen printing is an important first step to ensuring a good print. You need to take print order, color shift, trapping, choking, and more into consideration when designing for a job. When designing a multi-color heat transfer job, you’ll need to approach your design differently. Print expert Col
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How to Get a Darker Film Transparency for Screen Printing
Creating a dark film positive is essential to getting a good screen and a good print. If your film is too light, it won’t expose correctly and you’ll...Creating a dark film positive is essential to getting a good screen and a good print. If your film is too light, it won’t expose correctly and you’ll lose valuable detail. Sometimes, the film your printer creates isn’t dark enough. How do you solve this issue? Here are three ways to create a darker film. Photo by Symm
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The Best Way to Easily Align Films on a Screen Without a Template
Aligning film transparencies is a vital part of the pre-production process. If your films aren’t all in line, your print may appear off-center, crooked,...Aligning film transparencies is a vital part of the pre-production process. If your films aren’t all in line, your print may appear off-center, crooked, or misplaced. Nobody wants that (unless it’s intentional). There’s one sure-fire method to make sure your films are lined up. In the video, Ronald Peters shows you how
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Everything You Need to Know about Building Your Own DIY Dry Box
Whether you’ve just coated screens with emulsion, cleaned them up, or reclaimed them for a new job, having a safe, storing those screens in a dry environment...Whether you’ve just coated screens with emulsion, cleaned them up, or reclaimed them for a new job, having a safe, storing those screens in a dry environment is important to the process. Finding the perfect space for those screens may be complicated. Why not build your own? Darkroom guru Colin Huggins shows you how to
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How to Screen Print a Vintage Look
The purpose of a vintage print is to recreate what an older, aged print would look like. The print itself looks faded, well-worn. It has texture. The...Vintage prints have been a popular design choice for a long time. You can create a vintage print by taking a design and deliberately making that design look lighter on the garment so that the shirt color is influencing it but it also looks aged and worn. Want to learn how? Print expert Josh Wells walks you through the
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Preparing Art and Screen Printing CMYK with Water-Based Inks
CMYK printing is done by layering four colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) on top of each other to re-create art or a realistic image with only...Have you ever wanted to screen print CMYK, but didn't know where to start? Here's a crash course. In the video, print expert Colin Huggins shows you how to do CMYK color separation in Photoshop and how to screen print a photo in CMYK using water-based inks. CMYK printing is done by layering four colors (cyan, magenta,
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3 Simple Shortcuts that will Speed up Designing in Adobe Illustrator
Learning to design screen printing art in Adobe® Illustrator can take some time and practice. Clicking multiple buttons for one action—especially one...Learning to design screen printing art in Adobe® Illustrator can take some time and practice. Clicking multiple buttons for one action—especially one you use all the time—can become tedious and tiring. Have you ever wanted to be able to just press one key to complete an action? Golden Press Studio’s art director Cory R
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Best Practices for Screen Printing Water-Based Ink on Black Posters
Printing posters are a great way to test out prints and get your work past the t-shirt industry. With the proper technique and a little bit of patience,...Printing posters are a great way to test out prints and get your work past the t-shirt industry. With the proper technique and a little bit of patience, you can print great looking posters without needing an advanced print shop setup. Cory Romeiser, art director at Golden Press Studio, decided to dip his toes into post
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How to Prep Plastisol Ink for Screen Printing
When you buy a bucket of plastisol ink, it might have been sitting on a shelf for a bit before it got to your shop. You might notice that your ink has...When you buy a bucket of plastisol ink, it might have been sitting on a shelf for a bit before it got to your shop. You might notice that your ink has separated a little bit. Even ready-to-use inks can separate over time. Let’s talk about why this happens and what you can do to prep your ink before you head to the pres
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How to Print Transparencies in Procreate
Procreate is an amazing design tool. Wouldn’t it be even more amazing if you could print film from Procreate? You sketch, draft, and finalize a design...Procreate is an amazing design tool. Wouldn’t it be even more amazing if you could print film from Procreate? You sketch, draft, and finalize a design in Procreate, so why shouldn’t you be able to print from the app? In the past, printers had to use Adobe® Illustrator in order to print designs from Procreate. But Cory