Be sure to check out our video on how to make a flattening screen and how to use a flattening screen on a manual press. How to make a flattening screen: th-cam.com/video/zxYv0KaJIH0/w-d-xo.html How to use a flattening screen on a manual press: th-cam.com/video/Ek6cLn4tjgU/w-d-xo.html
Nice! I need to add the Teflon sheet. I have a blank screen that I used once to try flattening. I typically don’t have to flatten unless it is a G5000. Most of the better quality shirts take ink very well.
Hey Mikey! So when you use a hard squeegee to flatten the print, lets say in a multi color print, does that affect the positioning of the print by any chance?? We have a flattening press but we use a roller and i feel like a squeegee would probably do a much better job as you showcased in the video
We haven't had Andy issues with the squeegee setup moving the garment. Maybe the roller setup is spreading the garment out like a rolling pin and dough?
I actually warm up my blank and then flatten before i print which mats down the fibers pretty good for the first pass of white and then do the flattening again after the first print which gives it a really nice smooth surface for the 2nd pass of white.
@@mikeydesignssilkscreen473 yes. Until we get the auto by the end of this month and then we might get the roller by action engineering depending on how the prints come out, but we are slowly moving towards water based inks which is giving us a really nice white without a flattening screen.
@@Tyler-216 I hear that. On the manual, we ran the shirts under the flash before printing, but mainly to shrink the shirts up so there is less issues with registration after flashing the white base and to evaporate any moisture.
So, I am a rookie in the tshirt printing business, I don't have a conveyor belt dryer and I use a heat press to cure the ink (plastisol), working hard to get the right equipment, my question is : is bad to use the heat press?
The heat press will cure the inks just fine and it will flatten the fibers down at the same time, but it does slow the process down a good deal. That's how we started with a 4 color 1 station press from ryonet 5 years ago.
I agree with Ct Apparel. Only other draw back I can think of is using a heat press will make the print shinny, but not a bad thing. Keep using your heat press and save up as you compete orders. It may just take one big order for you to get an entry level conveyor and then you will be turning around your orders much faster. I personally used my flash to cure shirts before I got a conveyor with a 6 / 6 manual. What I did was after I printed the first shirt, I'd pull it off the pallet, set the shirt on top of the pallet, and rotate it under the flash. By the time I was finished printing the next shirt, my shirt curing under the flash was finished curing. I would keep doing this process until the first shirt came around and I would just unload them from the pallets..
@@mikeydesignssilkscreen473 I had to switch to parchment paper for DTG because people didn't like the shiny look .lol I kinda like the shiny look on some screen prints.
I haven't used a roller, but plan to get one for the new press to see what the difference is. A subscriber of ours has one and he prefers the hard squeegee method.
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Be sure to check out our video on how to make a flattening screen and how to use a flattening screen on a manual press.
How to make a flattening screen: th-cam.com/video/zxYv0KaJIH0/w-d-xo.html
How to use a flattening screen on a manual press: th-cam.com/video/Ek6cLn4tjgU/w-d-xo.html
Nice! I need to add the Teflon sheet. I have a blank screen that I used once to try flattening. I typically don’t have to flatten unless it is a G5000. Most of the better quality shirts take ink very well.
I hear that! I we don't use a flattening screen all the time. A lot of the times the second over print will do just that.
Pretty awesome
wow
Thanks!
Hey Mikey! So when you use a hard squeegee to flatten the print, lets say in a multi color print, does that affect the positioning of the print by any chance?? We have a flattening press but we use a roller and i feel like a squeegee would probably do a much better job as you showcased in the video
We haven't had Andy issues with the squeegee setup moving the garment. Maybe the roller setup is spreading the garment out like a rolling pin and dough?
I actually warm up my blank and then flatten before i print which mats down the fibers pretty good for the first pass of white and then do the flattening again after the first print which gives it a really nice smooth surface for the 2nd pass of white.
Nice! Very through! Is that on the manual?
@@mikeydesignssilkscreen473 yes. Until we get the auto by the end of this month and then we might get the roller by action engineering depending on how the prints come out, but we are slowly moving towards water based inks which is giving us a really nice white without a flattening screen.
Same!
@@crumptees Nice! Which auto are you getting? I would be interested to hear if the roller squeegee helps any with waterbased inks.
@@Tyler-216 I hear that. On the manual, we ran the shirts under the flash before printing, but mainly to shrink the shirts up so there is less issues with registration after flashing the white base and to evaporate any moisture.
So, I am a rookie in the tshirt printing business, I don't have a conveyor belt dryer and I use a heat press to cure the ink (plastisol), working hard to get the right equipment, my question is : is bad to use the heat press?
The heat press will cure the inks just fine and it will flatten the fibers down at the same time, but it does slow the process down a good deal. That's how we started with a 4 color 1 station press from ryonet 5 years ago.
I agree with Ct Apparel. Only other draw back I can think of is using a heat press will make the print shinny, but not a bad thing. Keep using your heat press and save up as you compete orders. It may just take one big order for you to get an entry level conveyor and then you will be turning around your orders much faster. I personally used my flash to cure shirts before I got a conveyor with a 6 / 6 manual. What I did was after I printed the first shirt, I'd pull it off the pallet, set the shirt on top of the pallet, and rotate it under the flash. By the time I was finished printing the next shirt, my shirt curing under the flash was finished curing. I would keep doing this process until the first shirt came around and I would just unload them from the pallets..
@@mikeydesignssilkscreen473 you can just use parchment paper to get a mat look and feel instead of a teflon sheet to avoid that shiny look👍
@@crumptees Cool. I've heard that but never tried it. Good call.
@@mikeydesignssilkscreen473 I had to switch to parchment paper for DTG because people didn't like the shiny look
.lol I kinda like the shiny look on some screen prints.
Have u tried a roller on flattening screen? Any differences vs the squeegee
I haven't used a roller, but plan to get one for the new press to see what the difference is. A subscriber of ours has one and he prefers the hard squeegee method.
@@mikeydesignssilkscreen473👍
Another question, what screen mesh do u use for the 2 screens
@@victorhart6157 I like to use higher mesh counts. 195 or the base, and 230 for the top.
@@mikeydesignssilkscreen473 thank you! Cant wait to try this
@@victorhart6157 Let us know how it works out!