Part 4 - AMAZINGLY Simple way to Screen Print at Home!
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In this video i go through all the necessary steps to screen print a t shirt at home easily and quickly. I use PhotoEZ screen printing sheets available at the link above. All the supplies I use are available in the Kits sold at their website.
I have used this method to start my own business, putting custom designs on products to sell online on Ebay and Etsy. It is a very easy way to make money online.
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My mind was just blown by how simple you made this look. i never thought something so complex as that image you used could be done so easily and quickly. This give my courage to try it for myself.
I sincerely hope you do. Get that kit!
I did a couple screen prints in art class in high school. For those of you questioning Nate,YES,what he is doing is RIGHT and will work 100% and YES people,you can wash the shirt. I mean..WHY would you do something to a shirt you want to wear only to NOT be able to wash it? Good simple video for a very barebones method of screen printing.
Dude. this is the best video i've see for putting graphics on tshirts. i will definitely be going back to this video and watching it over and over again. this was is WAY better than using transfers
NATE, THAT WAS THE SINGLE BEST SCREEN PRINTING VIDEO ON YT!!!! I'M STARTING A T-SHIRT BUSINESS WITH A BUDDY (AND NEITHER ONE ONE US HAVE A NICKLE TO RUB TOGETHER) AND WE WHERE TRYING TO FIND A CHEAP WAY TO DO DEMO T -SHIRTS AND THIS IS AWESOME. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH US! IF WE'RE SUCCESSFUL, I'LL SEND YOU A DEMO T WHEN WE'RE UP AND RUNNING!!! THANKS AGAIN!!!
You make everything perfect! I worked for ten years in a screen printing company and they had never the details you made with the low budget version! Men you are awesome! Keep going... do you also print for clients? Liebe Grüße aus 🇦🇹 Austria
Hey Nate! Just stopping by to say thanks for the video! And thanks for being proactive in answering comments, even almost 3 years after uploading! The comments actually answered a few questions I had myself, so thanks a ton!
That's amazing. I've worked at a screen printing shop and it was no where near this easy. Great job.
This was so damn wonderful I can not wait to do my own t shirts I will be the families favorite auntie! Plus I can make some rock shirts that I can't find in the US and cost waaaaayyyy to much to order from Japan. Thank you
I've watched a number of vids on printing, yours is absolutely the best. Thanks for sharing!
+Jack Kato Thanks very much! :)))))
Nate ~ I like what you're doing. Be encouraged. It's obvious to me that you are genuine in trying to help people get into the craft and maybe even start their own business. Keep up the good work and keep the videos coming!
i cant believe this shit worked.
Fixed it! I hope you feel better! Thanks for the kind words, its encouraging.
the question that's important to me is, how long does the design last after washed and dried multiple times. treating it as if its a store bought shirt?
if you use specific ink for screen printing on fabric it lasts just like a store bought tshirt since it's not waterbased.
I thought he used waterbased?
Maile Navarro water based inks wash out, no matter how you heat set them, and regular screenprint ink , plastisol, is not water soluble .
This emulsion thing is new to me :O It's like magic! So far, I've been hesitant about screen printing because of my less than stellar skill with cutting out templates, but this would really help the process!
This was the best vid I've seen on DIY screen printing. You're the real deal, man. Thanks for sharing.
+Ricky Hurtado Thanks very much for the kind words. :))))
DOPE video !!! excellent finished product !!! thanks for sharing !!
Thanx Nate your video has been most helpful to not over think just how easy it is to make custom shirts
So the liquid you're using at 2:10 is only water?
TheSneezingMonkey Yes. I only need to soak it in regular tap water. nothing special.
This is super cool. I am considering doing this because the freezer paper method i use is INCREDIBLY messy and doesn't look as professional as I would like (although I have several shirts that came out REALLY NICE). Though i won't buy the kit, (I'm into making things on my own) I will for sure use this method. THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO.
whats the paper you used when you ironed the fabric?
silicone paper
This method uses photo emulsion sheets. They are not technically stencils, they are scree printing screen so they are alot better than a standard stencil. The emulsion is light sensitive, once you expose it to light it is no longer water soluble, so the part your transparency is covering remains water soluble and comes out when you soak it. This method is alot faster and gives much better results than stencils.
Thanks!
Hi Nate,
I have been watching ur video so many times, maybe roughly 50times...haaa. its a very well made video, i can tell.
and I just wanted ask u one thing that is this film meshed film? a piece of mesh sandwiched by emulsion? or just like sand blast film?
Thank you very much for this! When the student is ready the teacher will appear! Have been wanting to find out about screen printing, and this past week wanting to understand the process. Thank you as well, for the link!♥
Hello Nate,
Great video, anyway where can I buy all the things that I need to do the same screen print? Ex, what ink, etc.etc... I'm about to start a t-shirt business but I want to start with very little amount if possible. So if you can help me I'd really appreciate it.
Sylvia Woods Everything you need you can get at EZscreenprint.com. also you can save 15% at checkout with nate15.
This is a great little video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge about screen printing :)
You are awesome. I'm doing some of my own designs and I'm going to do this. So much easier than changing everything I made so a company can print it. Thank you!!
What kit would I buy just to have what you used in this video? And how many "screens" come in it?
+Liz Reynoso You can get a Kit at EZscreenprint.com. the kits comes with 5-10 sheets depending on which you buy. You can save 15% if you use Nate15 at checkout.
how can i purchase
Welp. I'm thoroughly impressed. Everything was explained clearly and was very easy to understand. I thought something like screen printing would only be possibly with a huge investment, but this makes it look so do-able! Thanks!
Impressed by the simple process ideal for short runs I was thinking of using ink by hand to make the actual design on to transparent plastic stippling until dark enough I guess as long as it jet black will stop the light from hitting emulsion thank you for your video
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Omg I find that so incredible! I'm working on graphic design and screen printing in school and I love watching you videos so I actually know what to do when I finally do get to print cx love em!
This is confusing to me. I don't know what all these terms mean
Thank you for sharing! I've been really messing up with rinsing the emulsion process, so this seems like a great fix! awesome video!
Awesome! Thank you for watching :)
Awesome man! I will be using your technique in the near future! I love the simplicity of the process you showed us. Thank you!
Now how about more then one color?
Print each color on diferent screens, print one, dry one, the print the other color and go on, tedious, but that's why machines are for, putting screens for each color and making sure they are in the correct position
Thank you for your video! We plan to have our girl scout troop screen print their own shirts. Your video was very helpful!!
not bad for 1 color designs. you can also add colors through airbrush if one pleases. one can also just buy some screens and emulsion and do the same. without a press. you can expose it through a light or sun and can wash it out at a car wash or attach a nozzle to add pressure to the hose.
Is that Legal to be Dumping all of those Chemicals down the drain like that; I work for a company and They have to Filter the waste water.
People always worrying about the law how limiting.
Laggy2000 maybe people like you should be worrying about the environment and the water your kids will be drinking in the future...
Who says I don't? I boil tap water to drink it, I don't litter I donate to anti drilling campaigns and the list goes on. So please, don't make assumptions.
If you know a mortician ask him or her what they do with the embalming waste.(right down the drain) A lot of this ink is vegetable based and even edible.
Paulina Morales without an environment there's no people. nice video.
Seriously, this is the most awesome and helpful video ever. Thank you so much!! Fantastic design as well!
Hey dude, this was awesome, but the video was almost unwatchable. Is there some way you can shoot stuff without the auto-focus constantly searching for focus and exposure?
Been wanting to screen print for a long time, thanks for the tutorial. Very informative and thorough!
For a personal shirt. yeah that looks cool. But if you want to make shirts to sell. I don't think that's what I'm looking for
Trust me if your planning to persue this market and plan on selling to strangers and such, your going to need the detail
Wuaff Trust me if your planning to pursue this market and plan on selling to ANYONE, your going to need
professional equipment & actually know what you're doing.
Taping a stencil to a shirt and dumping ink on it is a disaster waiting to happen. If you're lucky enough to
remove the stencil without smudging your print or spilling/dripping ink while putting it back into the container,
try reapplying the already-inked stencil on another shirt, and not have it smudge.
You also better make sure that your ink doesn't get underneath the tape, just in case you're not good with
the taping process. And don't lay the screen back down if you didn't get good ink coverage. The chances that
the screen will rest in its previous position are about a million to one.
Multiple colors? Multiple screens. Good luck aligning them.
Considering how long it takes to make 1 shirt, as well as the cost of the material, I would consider this a
losing venture. Great for fun & learning, but nothing else.
Unless he's got nothing better to do, how can this guy possibly make a ton of extra cash with a process like this?
Is he charging $30 per shirt?
It depends on your design mister, if the design is good then your good. also that's why you tell people how to wash the shirt so the design is not lost on a first wash
francisco cruz You don't have to call me, "Mister". We're pretty informal around here.
I print t-shirts commercially. If we had to wash t-shirts before printing them, we'd be out of business.
The only way ink will wash out of a shirt is if the ink is not cured. Washing the shirt prior to printing
is a waste of time & laundry detergent.
look at you tag in any shirt and see if it makes sense to you know, there is a lot of people who what their clothes before they wear them. you should be able to since your work and tumble dry it... every company washed their clothes before selling it to you, that you don't know is your own business.
Man I hate people and their negative comments!! This video is simple and effective thank you so much for your help :)
We just finished watching the episode on your EZprinting and it was fabulous! One question, though...what if you want four or five colors to be on the drawing and not just all black? How could that be done? Thank you.
finaly, something i can afford to do wthout buying the heat presser
And to be honest i think you like the results more. At least I do.
heat press stuff = shitty
Wow... you make it so easy!
I do alot of things with apparel but not this, so Im gonna try it.
Thnks from argentina!
it is the most complicated way ive ever seen
Can hardly wait to get started, as soon as I install a sink that I won't mind being stained forever. : )
What a ripoff - EZScreenPrint - seriously, 3 exposure sheets $30? wow
Yeah for someone who want just one shirt its pretty expensive
Thanks so much for this video! I have been very interested in screen printing but I thought it would be impossible for me to learn but I am excited to get my starter kit and try this at home!!
Doesn't look very simple to me!
Great video, thank you! I've got a bunch of people interested in a design that I hand-painted onto a shirt, and I'm looking for a method like this one to make them quicker. Is there a way I could order the transparency with the image already printed on it? I don't own a printer. I'd even pay YOU to print it off for me. I'm pretty desperate to find an inexpensive way to do this.
Pretty cool screen method using mesh only. You can buy a pro level screen and the chemicals to make a bunch of different graphics for around 90 bucks. Check it out on The Print Life.
the video is great the idea is great but the camera...
Very good. Very helpful and detailed with all the right warnings and how-to's.
+C'est Moi Thank you very much! :)
Simple my ass
R Stieffel for a smart guy with decent job, this is a time consuming method.but I like to designed my own tshirt.you're probably working at mcdonalds.learn some manners
+Refractor Simple but yes, a little time consuming. Nothing is fast if you want it done properly. There's a famous trio of words to describe production of anything. FAST / CHEAP / QUALITY. You can only have 2. So clearly this is CHEAP and 'QUALITY' (to a degree)
Blake Duerden ive found a better solution.buy a plain tshirt,save the image in you thumb drive and bring it to printing shop.heat pressed.done.it's cheap and the quality is great
+Refractor Like I said… FAST and QUALITY but probably not as cheap for multiple productions
Blake Duerden iron pressed is much better than this imo
great video. Well done. I want to try to expand a t-shirt business this summer. I have a lot of good ideas.
dude you have some big photography problems. solve them! Otherwise very informative.
+drakoontag This was filmed 2012 bro.
I'm also going to put my ARM directly between the camera and the screen printing process to prevent anyone from seeing what I do!
Good job in the end though.
Nice one.
OMG, Are you kidding me?
This is how not to print tee shirts.
I would have printed over 1,000,000 shirts in a factory in my life and now I do print on demand with my own business. I would never do a start up business with this type of printing.
Buy a carousel in the first place. Sure it costs money. Buy good squeegees. They cost money also. You have to pay money to start up a business.
Don't rely on just a hair dryer. A hair dryer won't reliably cure your ink (or paint as he says). Anyone that says that ink is paint isn't a printer. To start up in printer you will need at least a paint dryer (for drying in winter (at home)) and then for curing the inks you will need a heat press in winter.
You will need a heat press at all times when starting up as a printer or a start up business or small time printer. I used an old Singer heat press when I worked for a motorcycle shop so you can use these for medium productions also. You don't need a $20,000 machine that uses 15 Amps and as lot of foot space to do it though.
I have a couple of different heat presses, some for shorts or mugs, plates or whatever but I only turn on one at a time. Simple small business. Start small and build up. Just use your head. :)
Terry Gissing stfu and make a video then fkboy. Lol old ass fks that hate ANYTHING NEW OR DIFFERENT. Lol u voted for Trump I bet 1,000,000. And quit lying. You didn't print a million shirts yourself. You probably exploited immigrants.
These are cool, even though you can only make one design with them it means that you can keep that design stenciled forever and not have to go and re stencil it on a printing screen whenever you want to print that design.
+hakobo1327 Yep! its very convenient if you need to make a lot of one design, especially on demand, like if you are selling products.
Awesome tutorial. You made my mind up on purchasing an EZ. Also, your design for this particular shirt is great. Nice detail
how did you do with the product? did you buy it?
what a great vid! I'll be checking out your website to see if you've got any starterspack or something like that. Because for the first time I'm really convinced: I can do this too! Thanx4sharing!
These are Photo Emulsion screens, they come with the emulsion already applied, so you do not have to deal with it. You get from ezscreenprint or cbridge. just do a google search. Hope this helps.
For what it's worth, there are many fulfillment centers in the US and around the world where you can have T-shirts printed for only a few bucks each and then sell them for double triple or more for each one and still make decent money or you can do as many companies do and sell the shirts for cost or a small mark up and make your money from shipping and handling.
Wow! EXACTLY what I was looking for, Nate. Thank you so much!
three or so questions, though i like your kit and will be getting one myselft, but i would like more info for three areas of concern i have:
1. can you not mount the screen print to a wooden frame? would this complicate any aspect of it? such as removing excess ink, or perhaps washing it off at the end.
2. if you let the shirt air dry and then let it really dry in sunlight, can you come back at a later time (maybe days later) and still do the bake in process? would like more info on the bake in process in general...hot hot, how long, and mainly how long after drying can you wait.
3. how quick does ink dry to the stencil? how many shirts can you do before you need to go wash it off so you don't end up ruining them?
and also, any idea on a black box for the 30 minute soak....i live in an RV....i don't have any blackout area's except for at night.
lastly, i can not find the magnetic exposure board you have on EZscreen's website, where did you get that gem?
also thanks for the promo code, hopefully it help you out too :)
+BrazBlue 1. You can. They dont come attached to a screen so you have the option. I find it handy that they are like a piece of paper tho because i have screen printed things that are not flat, like glasses, and I had to wrap the screen around it. This would not be possible with traditional wooden framed screens.
2. Yes. you can heat set the design days later. you just want to make sure you do it before washing, as it sort of melts the ink into the shirt and makes it permanate. It only takes a couple minutes with the iron, set on Medium High. The same you would use for removing wrinkles. You can even just throw it in the dryer on permanite press for a cycle and that heat sets it.
3. That depends on the brand of ink. With speedball, it doesnt dry right away, but i can start it get clumpy. I think i screen printed up to 4 or 5 before the ink was clogging the screen and the prints were not coming out right.
thanks for the info. i found anti-UV black spray paint. i'm going to spray paint a box to make it a makeshift black room for soaking without exposure.
just one more thing....where did you get the fancy exposure board? it looks alot nicer then using those metal clips on other designs.
Thanks nate. Awsome tutorial
Hey Nate.......Where can I buy the exposure board with the magnets? BTW great tutorial.
You are an artist. I used to be an artist. I wanna get back into it.
Hey, thanks for the code Nate15, saved me $8.90 on the starter kit, i used it to buy the plastic frame.. can't wait for my kit to arrive.. keep tune pls. b/c most likely I am gonna have lots of questions..
Wow looks awesome!!!! Thanks for the vid Nate!
Awesome ! Was wondering, where can I learn to do this on tin metal? example I wanted to learn how to make signs.....like beware of dog, no parking or others signs.Also wanted to learn how to learn to put on plastic. The signs length I am looking at, is like the ones that, you can place on your window or gate, not bigger than 8x10 ..Your feedback is greatly appreciated...JB
Awesome job Nate!!! Got to try this!!
This is so perfect. Thank you truly for making this video. You've dave's me $100's of dollars in start up cost
Omg!!!! This literally changed my life! Lol omg!!! Im so happy!!!! Yaaaay! Thank you!!!!!
Carole Rogers Did you do it and did it work?
Thank you so much. By far the best video so far
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!! TAUGHT ME ALOT PLUS IN A DECENT CHEAPER WAY.
That is awesoooome. Came out really good.
Thanks so much for this helpful tutorial, I want to start screen printing on my own so this was very informative. Definitely will check out your site.
you can pull sideways, that works. the more important thing is holding it at an angle.
really awesome.. and very easy... hope there is a material like that here in our place...hmmm
Thanks Nate, you are a star!
This is really amazing, you just fixed a massive problem.
Thanks again x
Thank you for making this video. I have a suggestion for applying the ink bead. Would a ketchup squeezer bottle work for applying the ink, and then just recap it for storage?
Thanks Nate..... great job explaining!
Cool. Thanks so much. This is going to save me a lot a money at work by printing our own t-shirts.
+Rhonda Klimt Absolutely! Let me know how it comes out. :)
Does the emulsion sheet need to be attached to a silk screen or is it already incorporated in the sheet? thanks!
Amazing! This can help me out with inside tag labels. I was wondering what is the mesh count on them? I can really use this to finalize allot of shirts.
great video but I was just wondering what you would do if you wanted two colors on your design? Thanks for any advice
Great Video thanks for sharing! Got one question, the emulsion paper; you lay your image over this, light hits the the E paper, you set it in water in the dark (30 min) and then tiny particles (emulsion) will come away from where the image was, which allows the ink to get through?
Hey nate,
I am screenprtinter myself with the luxury of having a table top press. aside from that i have been doing basic 2-3 color print but i was wonder how do you make such a detailed design? do you draw an image and then go back and trace it using your acetate(transparency sheet)? or do you use photo shop? or whatever you do please get back to me i would really like to do more of these and expand my artist boundries. thank you!
yes you would need to make a separate stencil for each color you will be using.
This is a cool way of screen printing. Cool video
Which kit from the website did you buy/use to do this video
+Brandon Santiago I used the complete starter kit. I highly recommend them as they come with alot of colors so you can be very creative. However if you just want to see whats its like you can go with the basic kits. It just comes with black ink and comes with less screens but it still has has everything you need to screen print a shirt.
Love your video. Easy to follow and not messy. I want to try my hands on screen printing. Where can I get the plastic netting and photo emulsion sheet (never heard of this 2 items before). Can any glass be used for the exposure or must it be a special glass?
From the Dover Clip art collections, from Designious (google search it), or just from around the internet in general.
Thank! I look forward to start creating shirts
Thanks so much! Looking for something like this for a project. Great instructions.
Great video! Thanks for sharing your expertise.