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Try Heat'n Bond Iron-On Vinyl and iron it on your screen fabric. It's totally water proof and you can get as many prints as you want off that fabric. Unstaple the fabric and just store the fabric flat. I use wood embroidery hoops instead of wood frames. No staples, easier screen changes. Organza fabric makes great screens.
Doesn't organza fabric melt when applying the Hean'nBond vinyl? I want to try that method but I am not sure what fabric would hold up to the heat process.
Nice video - I do vinyls for work so there's a couple of things that will make your life a lot easier... get a picking tool! They're about £2, basically a strong pin on a stick but with slight practice you could get those letters off in seconds. And get some proper paper transfer paper - you dampen it with a bit of water, the glue looses its tack and unless you go crazy there are no bubbles! Should take 30 seconds to get off...it's awesome and cheap!
+Ofir Alperstein I get mine from mdpsupplies.co.uk - anything wide enough will do (medium track is good). I usually put a piece of transfer paper down on a table sticky side up, roll the vinyl cutout up in a roll, line it up and then let it unroll on top of the table (eliminates any chances of air bubbles).
Forgot to mention - if you put really sticky transfer tape on a table surface and remove it 3 or 4 times it will pick up and hold onto dust etc - at some stage it will become just sticky enough to pick up the vinyl but not sticky enough to put up a fight when you remove it
Can it be washed , to save the vinyl, and screen for another day, or later??? I'm just thinking that if you try to wash out the screen with the vinyl on the screen , the vinyl will turn loose.
Quick question! Do I have to wash the screen in between uses or can I just print the 20 shirts, for example, one after the other, and then wash it in the end?
Can ya link us to the materials used? especially the adhesive transfer paper... the ones that I tried are absolute crap, they don't pick anything up and are classified as high tack. (rip off).
you should be able to peel off the vinyl and just rinse it down with water really well. you can also take a sponge to the screen without a problem as well as dish soap. the mesh is relatively sturdy (though it will eventually breakdown) so you should be good as long as your not scraping with anything abrasive.
There is a better way to transfer Vinyl to a silk screen, two ways. After cut you can place it face down on the bottom of the screen if you have a heat press you can press it on like you would on a T-shirt, but if you don't own a heat press lay the screen face down on the vinyl then use nail polish remover don't sniff it that stuff is addictive then rub the nail polish remover with a cloth or swab over the vinyl from the inside of the silk screen facing down let it dry then remove, done.
