SCREEN PRINTING TECHNIQUES

How to Get Started Creating Custom Decorated Pants
How to Get Started Creating Custom Decorated Pants

If you have mastered printing on sweatshirts, t-shirts and polos, it’s time to consider what other items you could offer to help expand your screen printing business. Screen printed sweatpants, yoga pants and athletic pants are perennial favorites for athletic teams and clubs, and as spirit wear and promotional items.

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A Guide to Screen Printing Color Separations
A Guide to Screen Printing Color Separations

For many screen printers, dealing with color separations presents on ongoing battle. From understanding the different types of color separations and knowing when to use them to knowing how to troubleshoot tricky separations, many screen printers struggle to consistently produce successful color separations. From basics to overcoming obstacles, here is our guide to screen printing color separations.

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How RIP Software Can
How RIP Software Can Improve Your Screen Printing Results

Most screen prints involve laying down simple designs with finite borders, one color at a time. But every screen printer has to deal with more complex prints from time to time, whether it’s a four-color process job or a print with gradient tones for special effects.

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How to Take Advantage
How to Take Advantage of Clipart for Screen Printing

In screen printing, as in most businesses, the faster you can get your work done, the more jobs you can take on and the more money you stand to make. One common bottleneck in the screen printing shop comes in art creation.

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Screen Printing or Heat Transfer
Screen Printing or Heat Transfer: Which is Right for You?

Custom garment makers often line up on each side of the debate: Screen printing versus heat transfers. While the issue is one that can divide, the reality is that both types of garment decorating have their merits.

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Smart Strategies for Measuring
Smart Strategies for Measuring Screen Printing Curing Temperature

For all of the work that goes into creating the perfect screen print, perhaps the biggest element that determines the success or failure of a print is heat. The right flash temperature determines the integrity of your underbase, or whether a heat transfer will, well, transfer. Getting your ink to the ideal curing temperature for the correct amount of time determines whether your finished print will crack, peel or wash out. 

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Adding Tote Bags to Your Lineup of Screen Printed Offerings
Adding Tote Bags to Your Lineup of Screen Printed Offerings

In order to grow your screen printing business, it’s important to keep an eye out for new products you can add to your list of offerings. One customizable item that continues to grow in popularity is the reusable canvas tote bag.

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Equipment Safety Tips for Your Screen Printing Shop
Equipment Safety Tips for Your Screen Printing Shop

Are you doing everything you can to keep employees safe in your screen printing shop? While our previous blog shared tips for protecting employee health and safe handling of screen printing chemicals, there’s one more danger to consider in your shop: Your screen printing equipment.

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7 More Common Screen Printing Mistakes to Avoid
7 More Common Screen Printing Mistakes to Avoid

Everybody makes mistakes, but in the screen printing business, mistakes can cost you money.

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Your Guide to Screen Printing with White Ink
Your Guide to Screen Printing with White Ink

Screen printing with white ink can frustrate even experienced screen printers. The same printing process you use with darker inks on lighter substrates can lead to blurred, fibrillated, heavy-handed or undercured prints when used to print white ink on darker substrates.

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How to Prevent Fibrillation in Your Screen Printing
How to Prevent Fibrillation in Your Screen Printing

Successful screen printing depends on quality control. By following the right steps and using the right products, any screen printer can create quality prints that satisfy their customers.

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An Introduction to Screen Printing on Plastic Substrates
An Introduction to Screen Printing on Plastic Substrates

When you think of screen printing, the first application that comes to mind is probably textile decoration. But printing on fabric only scratches the surface of screen printing’s capabilities.

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