Printing
Printing?
Oct 5th
Namaste!, It’s me again. Almost a week i don’t update my post. All these days i just checking out other bloggers’ blogspot. So many to see and learn.
Also, i found out that visitors stats are decreasing. Maybe there is no new things to read and see at my blog.
But what caugth me is that the followers are increase in numbers. These people i believe interested in my effort seriuosly or just loyal readers. By the way thanks to u all visitors and followers.
You all out there, by this weekend I’ll show me myself printing on tshirt, the whole process. Hopefully you all enjoy it. I’ll show u all how printing on tshirt can be done by one person – one man show. The keyword is be “patient”.
From my experience, i learned from many gurus and teached many protegee, the important key that u should have is determination and always be patient. Especially when u do it by yourself – part time job. But if want to go seriously, i suggest u get help from friends or relatives – at least 2 person. Pay them by day job basis. This will safe ur time when u run in volumes.
Why u need at least 2 person to add? In total there would be three person including u.
- The first is to slot in the tshirt with the plywood and rotate the tshirt after the previous tshirt is done printing.
- The second person do the printing.
- The third person do the drying process using the flash dryer/blower.
Each person just taking care of their on task and the process repeated until all the shirt done printing.
Tips of the day:
People ask me, how many printing table they need?
My answer: no specific numbers. For begginers, one printing table is enough. One table can print 8 tshirts. The important thing is that u need more plywood to slot into the tshirts. By doing so you can alternate the tshirt after the previous one are done and dry it at other place.
Example 1: Lets says u have 56 plywoods and divide its by 8 (volume of thsirt on one printing table), u will rotate the printing process by 7 times only. So u safe the space and money to buy 7 printing tables.
Example 2: You have 8 plywood and one printing table. The important process is that the person who incharge of replacing new tshirt with the one printed previously plays the major roles. This can be done if u print one color on tshirt. 2 or more colors will cost u time taken to finished the job.
Thats all for todays, see u again…
Two Colors Printing – Basic To Multicolor Printing.
Sep 25th
Hi! again. My last post shows u all how to print single color – white. So, now i’m going to show u with the same design and block, i can print two colors.
The same design and block. This time u tape
the cellophane tape onto the outside line of the design.
After u taped the outside line of the image on the printing block,
adjust the printing block so that it foll onto the last printed image (white) perfectly.
Then, u spread any color on the inside of the printing block - i use purple in this example.Again, be don’t hesitate. The collophane tape will block the ink so that the only inner image will be turned into purple.
Repeat each printing steps (spreading ink and drying) until u get the desired color’s thickness. You can see that the outter line still in white, while the inner image turned purple.
Tips of the day:
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You don’t have to prepare two printing block for each color. U can do it with 1 printing block only.
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But if you run your printing in bigger quantity, it’s better to have printing block for each color u need.
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Finally, it’s up to yourself to choose.
Bye, see u all again…
Third Step – Printing On T-Shirt.
Sep 24th
See u all again!! I’m going to teach u all “How To Print On TShirt”.
Things u need.
Take one blank tshirt.
Slide in the glued plywood into the shirt.
Press the tshirt evenly to stick with
the glued pywood underneath.
Take the printing block [in step two]
and tape its’ edges with cellophane tape.
Place the printing block at the centre
of your tshirt.
Prepare for the rubberised ink
onto the squeegee.
(A) Spread the ink into the printing block.
Don’t hesitate. Be confident.
(B) Lift up your printing block.
Clean the underneath of ur block with
wet sponge.
Then, dry the underneath of ur
block with dry clothe.
(C) Dry the ink with flash blower.
Repeat steps A, B and C for the second time.
Tips of the day:
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We clean the underneath of the printing block with wet sponge and dry clothe, so that the ink will not block the mesh when it dried [blockage]. It’s very important when we run bigger production and need to changes into new tshirts.
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We repeat steps A to C, to make sure the color is bright and it durable when washed. Sometime we repeat three times.
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Important for u to confirm the tshirt dried fully, if not it will peel off when wash. I usually dry my tshirt under the sun’s heat-cost saving..
