all right we're here at the rat at screen-printing Academy with Mark Berryman and our class today we're going to cover how to print a professional wipe we're at a trade show a week ago and probably the biggest question we had of the trade show is how can I get a nice smooth professional white on my t-shirt well mark knows most about printing white in my experience so I'm gonna have him explain that to the class okay first thing we're going to start with is the way itself I think a lot of times people will get their white and they'll leave it in their garage where the temperature is cool a lot of times the temperature will will drop and it this will make the the ink a little bit stiffer so what we want to do is before you start praying is stir it the best you can get it all work in and then go ahead and load your screen by the way this screen is a 110 mesh screen we've done nothing extra no special extra coatings on the back or anything we just pulled it up and burned it we'll be using a 70 durometer square squeegee which is pretty much the normal and another tip that I would pass on to anybody would be to if you're starting you use a bunch of ink you're going to use more ink than you normally would use a lot of times if you're doing light garments you'll use just enough ink to get through the job beginners met through a little bit more in but the whole idea here is we want to apply this to the shirt onto the top of the shirt not drive it in that's the whole that's the whole misconception of a lot of people to think well well think like but a lot of times you know you're doing darks to 80% of all the stuff that you did would be on dark garments so we need to lay a good foundation so another good tip here is off contact to bring this down you can see that I've got conservable more amount of off contact than you normally would get I like to raise it up a little bit more so if we were looking at the screen when we were pulling the squeegee it would look like an upside down way but would pull off the back and as you pulled along it would just right we'd come back and and then it would actually just detach another good tip got her got her flash heater on if you've got cold boards doesn't hurt to give them a little bit warm not hot but get them warm because after you get going everything will warm up and it'll start to thin out so I'm gonna warn that up and also going to show you how I love to just to make it a little easier on everybody out there the way that I load is I used to run an automatic trust and we would load basically if this is on a stack I would load them upside down what I'm gonna do is we're gonna take this shirt and divide it in half that way we don't get anything hung up hung up so I'm gonna split it open and then I'm going to let go and pull it all the way to the back and then we just kind of tweak this and pull it forward and that's really all there is to it if we divide the shirt up we have less chance of the shirt going all directions you can see if you do this you have to we do this a lot so we make sure that we get it straight and on it and you'll probably be usually a little more spray tack on dark shirts so here's what I'm going to do the first thing is pre-flood your screen it'll make it a little bit easier may not have to do this after a while because your ink will start to thin but the way that I do this we want to flood the screen while it's above the shirt we don't want to do it while it's on the shirt because it could go through and get on then you'll be ruined or shoot shirt so what we're going to do is start my run now this has done a couple of these and I usually use an angle like about like this really low angle we want to grab a little bit of ink here good see there's a little a lot more ink down here than you would normally use since we're laying it on to the garment instead of into the garment you want a late nice and even so I'm gonna pull my stroke back and this screen is gonna pop up what you did fled back if you wish this is our first layer that's a base layer it's pretty white by itself but once we run it through the dryer it's gonna darken up a little bit so we're gonna go ahead and we're going to flash it we're not gonna care it we're going to flash it this is P we want it dry just to the touch normally we'd be revolving all these around you know if one here and then would do the next and so on and so forth this is an air flash drive so it's going to work a lot quicker I'm just gonna bring it back and carefully talk to it just sight here didn't quite make it all the way well the time is going to be determined by what kind of flash unit you use if if you're in a different region of the country where it's warm it's gonna be a little bit quicker for your similar words call might take a little longer and as you get moving revolving all these you might start out with say might be a 10-second flash but as the board's warm up you may have to raise this up or move a little faster or the other so now now that we've got this we if you're doing one at a time like one board at a time you have to make sure that drives that it cools down it doesn't cool down it's gonna stick so here's our second one we've already got it preloaded same triangle real nice and straight pull not a lot of pressure and I let go we've got a professional-looking way that is white as you can get nice and smooth and that's all there is to do I mean a lot of pressure when you're doing that there's hardly any pressure because now now that we've built a foundation we're no longer on the shirt we're on plastic so it lates on top of the plastic you'll find it first layer is a little bit tougher to pull well the second layer as a foundation it's very easy to pull across it so your first layer is a lot of pressure second layers pretty much well it's not really that much pressure it's more of a more of a stroke like I'm not bearing down that's part of the problem most people happens they just you know they can't get it through but if you stir your inks this is actually loosening up quite a bit so people that have garages and they store the ink in the garages they're come in when it's cold they just figure oh that's the way it should be but they don't have any concerns so that's why I say stir it get it all worked around and then start do a couple pulls in a couple practice until you get comfortable start your stroke way back here so you can get a handle on what your leverage is going to be if you don't do that and then it comes out all chunky can I try that shirt you you