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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
How Hot is Your City? Tell me in the comments!
Mesa...AZ... well...you know... LOL!
74 today 90 yesterday. Michigan
90 - Coastal Georgia
It's 115 in SoCal area
Damn 74 in the summer, Love that but your winters are torture.
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.
Print Fam! Niagara Falls Canada...was about 97 degrees all week. Got some rain last night and cooled things off. 77 right now...perrrrrrrfect!
True true you need them darn primary colors ready to go!
Watching this in az in the winter and it’s a nice 70
Great Content as always Cam. San Antonio right now 92 degrees 47% Humidity
A year late, but wouldn't it be easier to mix them using a huge syringe for measuring each pigment precisely compared to a scale?
Its crazy, I for sure never thought to try that!
I'm a newbie, loving the videos.. always wanted to do this,
Just out of a heat wave, a cool 18 C/64 F 99% humidity in Digby, Nova Scotia. Rain just ended and back to sunshine for the weekend.
Austin cooled off a little thanks to some rain this week - 95F with 46% humidity.
ga dang 46% would drive me nuts.
Congratz on 12k subs!!!!!!
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
we have a small dip tank that is just filled with water it pre softens the emulsion makes washout allot easier.
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.
Seattle and it’s in the 70’s... I’m from Arizona so I definitely know what 100 and 101 degrees feels like.
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.
We tried it all, I think if was Jesses greasy ass sweat, I would not come out for anything. Good advice though I will try that next time.
The Print Life lol that's funny. Also our environments are very different. You guys have way dryer heat than NY.
Nice vid. Glad your back. Print fam!
Thans man, glad to be back.
16 Celsius which is 60 Fahrenheit 52% humidity in Seytroux France. It’s also 10 pm after a rainstorm. Normally around 27 Celsius = 80 Fahrenheit
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.
Keep it growing. 🌱 Print fam!
9 degrees celcius, Ontario Canada (a year late) but just found your channel.... so interested in starting up. Need equipment!!! ...
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!
@ThePrintLife, Do you store screens from a repeat job/repeat clients without reclaiming/re-burning each time? If so, how do you store them?
dixie cups might help with the color mixing.
For any normal ink, does the shirt HAVE to go through the heater belt? or can flash dry be okay? why does the shirt go through the hater belt?
I love the same color contrast shirts
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.
xcellentgraphics is the water based adhesive something sold separately? Or can we just use normal tap water?
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.
xcellentgraphics okay. I’ll test that out. Thanks for your input.
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
That may be the case. Im excited to mix more colors and see how many are accurate.
Subbed as soon as I saw you crack open a Zevia lol
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.
You can see the science here
th-cam.com/video/cQm3aHEDm3c/w-d-xo.html
im trying to learn this thanks
Raining Greensboro NC. Print fan
New guy looking to get into screen printing. Why do you tape the top of the screen before you ink it? As always, love the videos!
Hey Cam,
Are you guys washing out images with the actual pressure washer pressure or is that normal hose pressure?
Thanks!
What ink mixing system are you using
Jackson Ms. 85° 70% only 85 because it rained today.. been 92° plus all this week
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.
78 degrees in Eastern NC Real Feel of 81 degrees and humidity is 81 percent....not hot here!
San Bernardino ca 115° __ 8%h 3:41 pm
Worse than AZ
Shirt turned out clean by the way IMHO.... *regardless of the color not being exact
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.
sick holmes! like this one. get some!
Hi print Fam . here in Buenos Aires, Argentina 11°c/51°F 84%H
Its 118 here in PHX, AZ
Hey man, my god damn thermometer in the shop must be busted or something. It's brand new, piece of Chinese crap!
it certainly feels like 118 haha
Scented inks? That could really be on to something!
And here we are in the uk getting excited about 77 degrees with a humidity of 41 :-)
Damn, thanks for watching all the way from the UK.
What was he doing with the squeegee between the pieces of wood? Cleaning? Sharpening?
Sharpening the cheap way. A hot knife is ideal but sanding work just fine for us broke folks.
What city are you in and do u think I should get a job at a screen printing shop before I start my company or should I learn through experience
Its not a horrible idea to get a job in a shop first to see if the process of screen printing is something you will enjoy.
It's 90° with 70% humidity in Miami
New subscriber. Reyes The Entrepreneur sent his viewers here to check your channel out. I love it! Also, 71F / 91% humidity @ 12:45AM
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?
Does anyone know about using permaset premium on coroplast?
In iowa its a nice 80° with65% humidity
Today it’s 114! Riverside, CA
Print Fam yo!!
You walk with your arms out 😂😂
Hows the M&R been treating you now Cam???
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.
Print Life..!
5 degrees in NY
Soulfart i cant find it
Soul fart.
PRINTFAM!!!
Nashville 86° & 86% humidity...
100% humidity and it's not raining
Madison WI 90* 81% humidity
Print Fam! 95 degrees - 86% humidity
Today it was 114 outside inside my shop was 120ish
Why not discharge the water based ink, would have looked better and maybe closer the color you were looking for?
You are TOOO!! FUUCCKKIIN’ FUNNYY !!!!!!
print fam bam
Florida 90F 94% humidity
Im gonna be in Orlando next week. I dont know If i can handle that humidity.
The Print Life don’t plan anything outside unless it’s dark lol
Liverpool UK 15 but its night time
Wash that permaset! Inquiring minds...
after running another job Jesse was having some issues with the ink crawling up the squeegee blade.
The Print Life - my black does that bad but it don't bother me. There's ways to combat that. :)
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Philippines has only 2 season, if its HOT, is f'in HOT, if its raining, its RAINING! You should go in the Philippines man..
Arizona is the same way. Shout out to the Philippines.
115 degress yuma ,Az
San Jacinto ca. 107. But the sweat running down my ass kept me cool.
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55°s but I am on the other side of the planet.
Sometimes is 28 c And sometimes is 39 a 40 c
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100+ in Los Angeles
Yep it’s definitely HOT AS SHIT IN AZ
INDONESIA unch
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Cold as shit in Brisbane #printlife
Printfam
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52F today
Upper 90's w/ 50%-70% past few weeks. Ya need some damn gills ta breathe!
99
hehe ;) 54 F and 68%
°100\48% Dallas Texas
oh Louisianan is .......... HOT !
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