this is the most rewarding unforgiving business i've ever got into the only job where training is irrelevant instead fucking up and learning from your mistakes is a must . you have helped me out more than you will ever know my man,keep up the great work
We are in az as well. We have a big dryer and a couple flashes running during the day and it gets hot up in the shop. We try to start early and leave early. We also just got a swap cooler that has vents just over the printing stations. It helps but both our dark room and washout room are like sweat rooms.
What up!!! Great video as always brotha. Did I see you burn a screen, put the screen in your dip tank, and then washout the stencil?? That’s a new one for me, very curious! Thanks for all the juicy content you put out here man
Hi Cam, can you make a mini bio pic video of your business? from the beginning to date a little bit background and idea how to start the business, or if theres already, hit me a link.. Ever since i got the idea of making instead of buying, and also, im a big guy, so there is limited clothes to buy, first thing came to my mind was screen printing DIY clothes. ever since your channel popped in my home page, you got me man.. i like how hard working you are same time fun and cool at all times.. keep it up man! godbless!
Hey Cam Awesome video! I've had that happen with the ink spot drying in the screen during production it's pretty annoying. If you use a pump up water spray bottle used for gardening you can get those out. Or if you clean the screen and use some water-based screen cleaner with a paper towel it seems to work well. This way you don't need to remake the entire screen.
sup dude . I use to work for a circuit board company and we used little disposable Dixie cups to mix colors. just a idea. not sure if its cost affective but worth a try to get those equal portions.
You mentioned that you're not comfortable recommending the starter kits. Just wondering if you could do a video on how you would start a shop knowing what you know now. What equipment you would recommend a beginner start off with.
we are in the middle of a heat wave here in norff jersey so it's gets up to 95-96 in the shop (4th floor) w/ the ovens on. ink flows nice tho. sometimes i just print at night. speaking of heat, dude, stop drinking soda in it. really bad for you in hot conditions. water baby water. i recently did a job w/ matsui discharge but those shirts faded quite a bit. also when you stretch test it really cracks up. anyone have a good discharge recommendation?
In my experience most ink companies use proprietary color matching formulations for Pantone simulations and don't rely on the percentage of mixing colors called out on the Pantone fan deck
ello friend greetings from argentina .... I would like to know if the inks you used in this video are water-based inks or plastisol? I told you here in my city we have a temperature of -2 ° much much cold.
I agree. The shirt looks better in person. The system is pretty cool I mix another color later and I worked great, So it seems like some colors will be closer than others.
I realize this is an older post but I just wanted to comment on it. Whenever you use transparent white, ALWAYS mix your primarily colors first and then add to the transparent white. You can measure the primary colors separately from the trans white. Also, if you convert the percentages to grams, you can set your scale to grams and it works out perfectly. Those Pantone formulas are not forgiving. I’ve been printing for 30 years and have mixed hundreds of pounds of ink colors. Your posts are fantastic! Keep up the great work.
Why did the color match it not work? I can tell you why. Pantone is not based on a color model so how can you match a color without a color model. But thank God you got lucky! And you right about primary colors.
as far as I know, They built the pigment system of the color model Pantone uses. When I mixed the darker purple it seemed to get real close. So I have high hopes for the system.
Pantone is not a color model it is color matching system with numerical values and names give to the colors. So it just just spot color system which is why you will not find it in the color models of the graphics applications. You will only find it as list of spot colors to choose from.
Cam, my shop just started using the adhesive glue to put on platens so we don’t deal with all the particles getting in our lungs from the spray adhesive. The glue adhesive is not keep the platens sticky for very long. How do you keep the platens sticky or do you have to keep re-applying the glue adhesive? Thanks
Joshua Hayden At our ship we can generally print several hundred shirts before needing to reapply. We usually clean the pallets and apply the water based adhesive in the morning and are good to go for the day unless we have a ton going down that day or are Printing on fleece.
Na. That’s what you are using is water based adhesive. Sometimes if your lint buildup is t too bad later in the day you can take and spray some water on the pallets and send to the flash and it will bring back some tackiness as well.
What do you think about the future of screen printing shirts? Will DTG displace it? There are so many websites like spreadshirt making it easy for customers to order some printed shirts. Why should they call a local shop and try to explain what they want? Some clicks on the internet are much easier. I have problems to get new customers for my local business.
To some degree I think it will. Those Kornit whatever machines are getting very fast and color accurate. I'm not sure were screen printing fits in the future but I don't think it will go away completely. and even if dtg dose take over, the need for local printer will always remain its just hard to predict what we will print with.
So good. all the registration issues were because that bolts that go through the head needed to be relocktighted (that aint a word) once that was fixed and the pallets were leveled properly every things works like a charm.
