hey screen printers it's Ryan with Ryan net and this instructional screen printing video we're going to show you how to screen print on this Hanes X temp 6040 performance moisture working garment this print will be a featured print and this fall's back-to-school screen print experience classes throughout the US so if you learn something in this video you can experience it live and hands-on at a screen print experience class near you while most performance garments are difficult to screen print the Hanes X temp provides advantages to both the printer and end-user who will wear it X temp is the perfect shirt because it provides the performance of a 100% polyester with the comfort of a race fun cotton the hand really is incredible and it also provides a smoother printing surface which will help us use less ink and achieve a brighter print with finer detail today we're going to challenge ourselves even more by printing this design with water-based ink we will be using the green galaxy comet white for our underbase and a custom Pantone gold we mixed earlier using the green galaxy opaque core and fusion gold pigment to give the over print the opacity it needs because of the polyester and the finer weave performance fabric we're going to use a generous amount a rhino mist in order to ensure the shirt doesn't move around during printing because we're printing on moisture wicking fabric which absorbs a lot of ink we're gonna be using a 110 mesh screen print flash print in order to build up a nice bright under base the warp drive mixes into the common white at 1.5% which allows you to fully cure at 250 degrees with a 48-hour sit time after printing as you can see we have good off contact about 1/8 inch the tight screen right around 20 Newtons most water-based inks require two passes but the key here is really ensuring that all our ink is transferred from the mesh onto the garment we do a quick flash so the touch of the garment is tacky and dry but not fully cured this should be about 200 to 220 degrees if your temping it then we do one to two passes again for the over print we're using a 156 mesh screen with about 1/8 inch off contact because of the poly garment and the thicker ink we should be able to accomplish the over print with two passes and no flash if you have issues getting opacity you can always add a flash to build up the closet now we care the ink you want a good dwell time to dry the ink but we do not want the garments reach over 250 degrees once dry we do a test for tackiness if it feels good not to tacky we let it sit for 48 hours to test for bleeding before we do a stretch test after 48 hours the print looks great now we can go to market or do a wash test to ensure our print is really solid remember you can print this exact print using either lower water based or plastisol and one of our Hanes sponsored back-to-school screen print experience classes this fall checkout screen printing comm for more information and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more rockin screen printing videos