Screen Printing
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Working with Fluorescent Inks
When our customers are looking to add impact, we can incorporate a fluorescent ink into their design. The bright vibrant…
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What do I need to know before creating screen-printed transfers?
When running a small business, we need to take advantage of the technology and techniques that will help increase efficiency…
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Education
Curing Water-Based Inks
In this quick 90-second video tip, Cristen, Ryonet’s production designer, gives screen printers tips for the perfect cure when working…
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Starting a Screen-Printing Business
Before you open a shop, it’s important to create a business plan that sets you apart from the rest. Ask…
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What shop tools do printers need to achieve clean screen prints on nylon?
Aside from the usual tools of the trade, there are a few specialty items you need to print lasting, crisp…
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How do the different nylon weaves affect a screen print?
Just like other types of fabrics, nylon comes in different weaves, which have different uses and provide different challenges when…
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Education
Discharge Cautions: Steps for Safe Printing
Ah, the smell of discharge in the morning! One of my personal favorite shop aromas. What is that smell anyway?…
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Education
A Tale of Registration
Once upon a time… Some people viewed it as an art that could not be taught. To others, it was…
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Education
The Importance of Properly Leveled Screen Printing Platens
It’s a part of the screen printing press that is known by many names – platen, pallet, shirt board –…
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Education
Water World: Tips for Printing with Water-Based Inks
A couple of years ago, we started noticing a shift in what our clients wanted. Most of our clients were…
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How can screen printers ensure quality curing?
Heat is one of the biggest challenges we face as printers. It really surprises me how little some printers pay…
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Education
Move Past the Gray Area of White Underbase Printing
Almost nothing poses as big of a challenge for screen printers as printing white ink on dark-colored shirts. White ink…
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How can screen printers achieve consistent results?
All printers that want to get consistent results with screen printing know that achieving this is a result of limiting…
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What You Need to Achieve Photo-Realistic Screen Prints
I often travel to see customers, many that are quite successful and large. When conducting ink testing or trials at…
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Education
A Guide to Summertime Screen Printing
The screen-printing business changes with the seasons. Each season brings different challenges and different demands from customers. To help prepare…
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Education
How to Screen Print on Poly Shirts
In this video, Geno Talkington of Wichita Screen Printing gives printers the rundown on polyester shirts. Video takeaways: Poly inks…
