How To Build A Cheap T Shirt Screen Printing Press
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2013
- Make a screen printing press to print t shirts for almost nothing. I built this one out of scrap wood and a few things from the hardware store. I do screen printing as a hobby, but you could easily start a small business printing custom t shirts for bands or teams or whatever. Or come up with fun designs and sell the t shirts online or at swap meets or whatever.
This homemade design can be easily modified. Change the size and shape of the shirt board to print long sleeves or sweatpants legs. You can probably even make something to print hats. This is a pretty easy DIY project.
p.s. You don't need all the tools I used. You can do most of it with a regular handsaw. It will just take longer. I had the tools, so I used them.
I built it from scrap wood. Here is a parts list posted by a viewer:
(2) 2.5 in wide 24 in long
(1) 2x4 cut at 45 degree angle on one end
(1)16 in x17 in board, angled
(1) 7 in x 24 inch board
(2) Bolts: ⅜ in bolts, 3.5 in long, washer , wing nut
(1) Strip hinge (or 2 -3 smaller hinges)
(2) Eye Screws
(1) Spring
(1) Zip Tie
Screws
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Hey,
For some reason today I thought about looking up this video, which I watched about 6 months ago, when I made my own press following your design, with a few minor variations due to the different stuff I had available, and changed it slightly due to my own requirements, but its 95% the same as this design.
Six months later, I've printed and sold over 2500 tshirts on ebay, and the press is still going strong.
I'm expecting to be doing 3 times the volume of business by this time next year, and as long as I'm printing one colour designs, this press will serve me well for a long time to come.
Thought you would like to know how your design is helping me to grow a real business.
Thanks a lot,
G
Awesome! I have told people this was a viable business opportunity that would cost very little to get started in. I am glad to see someone who has done it! Way cool!
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glenn presslie What is the name of your store on ebay?
glenn presslie hi
Watched your video a couple of times. Decided "What the hell, I'll try it." I welded the frame and press out of some stock metal I had laying around the shop, forgot about it. 6 months later I sold it, unused, at a yard sale for $100. Good Video.
just wanna say thank you! i just made one today. I followed your plan step by step and it turned out nice. I used scrap wood and bought bolts, wing nuts, hinges etc from hardware store and only spent $8.70. AWESOME!
Makes things easy when someone good enough in showing the basic design. Thank
you.
I loved your tutorial! Informative, straight forward, detailed enough. To the point.
Thanks for this video! I busted out a press in about an hour using a bunch of scraps i had in the basement! Works like a dream:) I made several sizes of the plate for different sized screens too. Thanks again!
Thank you so much. Your demostration is very helpful.
Realy great video, man! One of the best cheap projects I've seen on the web!
Thanks dude, this helped. alot of videos out there with so much useless crap. this one gets to the point i wanted see. every minute of it was helpful!
you are a genius what a hell of an idea looking forward to doing this great job and thank you for sharing
Thank you for sharing,I have made this and it works, what clever man you are.
Great info! I have the capability to make/stretch/coat & burn the screens at work for a different application & have been wanting to apply this to doing my own tshirts at home..Thanks for posting!
Thanks man, just finished building something very similar using your guide. I have some smaller frames and figured something out to get them to reach the top of the t-shirt (incase you dont want to use >12" tall frames to touch the target spots on a t-shirt) - I loaded a 2x4 into the clamp, and drilled a clamp into the edge of the 2x4 (the bottom of the clamp is nearly level with the surface), and I load my frames into the newly added clamp
I have been looking at these tutorials for a few days. this is the one I want to build . clear directions and simple.
thanks
I love the concept and structure of this screen table. Worth watching. Thanks man for sharing.
I will be on it tomorrow. This solves the problems I having with my printing. Thanks!
excellent, amazing thanks a lot. it is really the best tutorial, if anybody follow the directions step by step he/she can make it easily. thank you a million. recommend it to everybody :)
Thanks a lot sir, thats a big help for a beginner like me. I really appreciate it
I've been dying to build a screen printing press and now that I found this video I know how to build a good and cheap one. Thanks!
I built mine and I love it! Thanks for the video!
So simple and easy to make...and your tuition was clear to understand. I didn't find any timber that had been discarded so l bought some 1/4th plywood and used epoxy to join two pieces cut to size together making it 1/2 inch thick. I joined two pieces 2"x 1" timber cut to size with epoxy making it 4" wide by 1". This meant the materials were cheap. This was a great video, perfect for anybody to make. Thanks for taking the time to show us this idea.
+Alan Oliver Hey, whatever works! I just put out a basic design that can easily be modified with whatever you have on hand.
Good one, RJ. Thanks. I'll build this on Thursday.
Thank you so much for this! I went out and picked up all the power tools at the local pawn shop and will soon get the wood!
Also, thank you for the closed captioning. I'm hearing impaired and you're a blessing!
You can use hand tools , it just takes longer.
Luckily I was able to go to a liquidation sale. I purchased a jig saw, a miter saw, and a circular saw for a total of $77! This will be my weekend project
This is the easiest and cheapest diy print press I've seen! Great video! Thanks :)
best 22 min of my life. great vid
Well done.... I saw it, I built it, I'll use it! Thanx....
Awesome video…great presentation. Brings back some memories for me bro!
OMG You have my exact model of table saw... it's my FAVORITE tool...!
OMG!!! O M G!
Thanks for giving us the idea on how to build this screen printing machine. Thanks boss
Thank you sir for this video, its crazy how you recorded this 9 years ago and here I am using the information, thank you and I hope you're well...
Woohoooo, finally parts I have and simple hardware. Now just have to find a deal on some frames. Ty
Excellent video! Love that you use what you have lying around or discarded scraps. Very resourceful and clever!!!!
Hey Thank you very much!
Your video guided me and a friend and now I have a screen printing press :)
Thank you so much
Great idea , think I'm going to build one myself . Thx !
Thank you for sharing your design . Helped me alot . Thumb up
You Sir, are a GENIUS!
Great tutorial, very descriptive. Thank you.
thank you very much, great vid and tutorial! thumbs up!
Great video! Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you so much! Awesome, no-frills design!
Pure Genius... Thanks for sharing!
really cool!.. zip tie trick is brilliant!
I am going to attemp to build two of these with my sister and dad this weekend. Thanks so much for posting this video! Here's a materials list I jotted down from watching if it helpful to anyone else that comes along and watches. I could've missed some stuff and this is obviously about being creative with what you already have. Happy building and printing, everyone!
(2) 2.5 in wide 24 in long
(1) 2x4 cut at 45 degree angle on one end
(1)16 in x17 in board, angled
(1) 7 in x 24 inch board
(2) Bolts: ⅜ in bolts, 3.5 in long, washer , wing nut
(1) Strip hinge (or 2 -3 smaller hinges)
(2) Eye Screws
(1) Spring
(1) Zip Tie
Screws
Thanks! I will add that to the description.
thanks, very helpful. especially for a new start up.
This is brilliant. Thanks so much for all your work. I'm off and running 8-D
Thank you for the video 👍
Very good , made mine and it works perfect. Thank you sir
wow you are a genius man! thanks a lot
really cool!
Excellent teaching video.
The best homemade press 👍👍👍
Thank you very much - Your video is real support - Good. Also you have nice tools with you. I really highly appreciate.
Genius! I am making one.
Just rewatched this video. I have been using this for all my T-shirt printing. I also did some stickers. I have since built a vacuum platen for those.
What else do need? I use it to print T-shirt’s for my business. Give sways really. The piano hinge holds registration. I just do one color.
Thanks for the video, it was the best match for me.
WE LOVE U RJ!
That is DOPE. You'll never be useless with a can-do attitude like that.
I can tell it felt good...
Lance Holtman - this is better than dope, aye.
super cool. thank you
We made one works fab thank you so much
Brilliant!
Amazing!
This is great, think I will use t-nuts to assist in the bolts.
This is awesome ty bud
Brilliant video going to get my partner to make me one hopefully
thanks for making the video.
That was awesome! Thanks for that! Subscribed! =)
great teacher,,,,thank you sir...
NICE!
omg i want to build this scream print thanks so much i really like it
thank you sir !, u helped me so much
Great very helpful
The biggest hassles are emulsion setting and screen cleaning, this is a great rig.
great work thank you
( : "That's 100% awesome! Thank you so much for this video! I just want to let you know that you're excellent at your craft! I am truly greatful! Please keep making video's!" : )
Thank you that's great!
Very Good man.
useful vid! thanks!
thank you man. thanks
Cool Video thanks man! I have all of thes woods the i even have a saw but the problem is i don't have a drill to make those holes and screw them.
Very Cool Video!
awesome!
Awesome
thanks it simple to use
Making hard work of it!
Thank you soooo much! you're amazing :)
it was very help full good work thanks
To all involved in sales & promotional activity:a good tool for the future
You should do a video on how to build a 'table screen printing press' - a row of platens where you manually move your screen(s) from one platen to the next, giving you unlimited color potential.
Hans Zarkov platen?
Go ahead, push the luck :\
very good my friend
I'm going to make 1 too.
wow...nice
Nice!
Thank you!!! :D
Thank you so much
Brilliant
A big thank you, from me! Realy. : )
very nice
thank you so much !
This video is cool. I got the wood to make it, the thing is I don't have all the tools you use, but thanks anyways!
+LadyOscar Hn You don't need all the tools I used. You can do most of it with a regular handsaw. It will just take longer. I had the tools, so I used them.
Thank you very much.
thank you for idea
thanks a ton