Long time!

Well sorry to ryonet for the delay but with computers going out and not another way to access my blog I was stranded! Well I am back though and have been doing business still. Things aren’t looking down with the seasons and holidays coming up it only means opportunity!

So I have made some more shirts for a lawn service that’s a town away and they ordered 15 shirts not too many but it was only one color to not too bad. They came out great and loved the art work that I was able to create for them. Good people too.

Now with the blog back on and the season in I am going to ordering some more supplies in a few days and get on some new prints! I have already looked into the 4 color process job that I am excited to do and will show that a little later! I don't want to ginks anything right now.

Good new I might be combining my efforts with another local shop here in my little town but we'll see how that will turn out still waiting to hear back from them. But it is looking promising and would be a great opportunity! Can’t wait for that. More pictures are soon to come but it’s almost 2 am and do not have them here now.

As for ordering I am getting some new squeegees from Ryonet and also some goop scoops and screen wash, because I go through that stuff fast so I getting the gallon this time no quartz haha. I going to take a day or two and jus make shirts for myself because I realized that the ones I have now are getting worn out and I like wearing the shirts I make!

Here is a shirt i made for a Rain gutter busniess. They only wanted them on the chest of the shirts and they came out nice. I used the Ryonet White ink that works really well and a 110 mesh screen that was coated twice. Once on the inside and twice on the shirt side of the screen, to make the stencil thicker.

Rally up!

So far so slow! ha well i just got an order fora few shirts for my friend who is protesting with some other people for pro-life. I don't have any problems doing the shirts because I am not stating my opinion on the matter to her or in my blog. It is a very controversial topic but its business! and that's what i need.

The shirt is pretty simple just black print on a white shirt that says pro life in a nice font and a quote from the bible too.

I was going to play a joke and make one with pro choice on the front and give it to her first but they need them by sunday and i dont have much time with other things i have too! Good joke tho haha

So i going to make them for her but i was thinking of making a lot more and go out there to sell them! might work for some business but I'm not sure yet...

Also on a better note me and my friend came up with a good shirt idea and i am going to make it and it goes good along that it is Halloween. i have not made and finished the design but for now i just going to say that it deals with Frankenstein and that i will try to also sell it on here or online!

Pics of both well be up soon!

Slow but steady!

So right now it is slow but i have a new order of shirts that i will be making for my friend who is trying to start his brand! this time he wants more shirts and i hope that it'll go good and no problems! ha i will be using a triangle white ink not the usual ryonet white that i find to be the best to use, creamy and the most opaque, but by the customers request! Weird but its ok.

The images for these shirts will be up soon here!

Also i need to make more business and i think getting into the season and into October that that will happen! i have a good feeling! Homecoming is coming up so i want to advertise this week to get it out there!!

If anyone can help me out with how to get my name out more it would be great! It's kinda hard right now living in this little town. Soon i will have more business though and good profits.
I have also recently wanted to try a half tone image with printing white but i am kind of skeptical about it. I have heard using a 203 mesh screen and to mix the white ink really well that i can do it but we will see! More of those pictures will be up also!!

New Prints for a New Brand!!

Hey wel i just got done with an order from friend who is looking to start his own brand. Well i am helping him out and gave him a good price so that he can sell his shirts but we both make some profit! this design was pretty simple jus the brand name "The Lift Five" he is coming up with the ideas and going to let me know to i should have some good business through him!

this is the shirts

Here it is still on the press right before curing!

This is the Grey one the reverse of the color shirts

This is the all white black one!

So for this time i got great use out of my Silver Press from Ryonet. This press moves nice and has great registration. I also used ryonets white ink and jet black ink and they came out great! a suggestion, probably for any white ink, mix it really good so that it is creamy and it will be easier to work with. Also i was using a 110 mesh and i had coated the emulsion on 2 times so the stencil was thick.

I also gave the push method with the squeege a shot because i heard the white comes out better and i found personally it was harder and came out ugly and stucko like. So i think for now i will stick to the pull method for the squeege and get my results! the high angle and light but smooth pull gave me nice results. My friend liked them and sold them already!

There was only 6 shirts to make for now but there will be more to come!

Bummyy!!

Well this week ends up not going as well as planned! Poop! *(keeping this family friendly). But really this was not a good i was planning on making the class senior shirts for one the high schools here in my town. The knew what they wanted and everything and i would have been around 100 shirts by mid October. That would be my singl bigest order i ever had and the profit would be great and helop me out! BUT they needed a Business licence number!! I dont have one and a really want one now because that is the second order that i had to turn down because of that!

This order was going to help me but a few little supplies like goop scoops and screen tape and a some screen wash but the main thing that i was goinng to get was a FLASH DRYER that i really need to do bigger orders and this heat gun is getting annoying that it take so long! Having a flash dryer would make it so much better and less chance of messing up the curing process!

Also i need to get my garment licence but it makes no sense on how to get it! If anyone knows how to get in California let me know ASAP maybe i can still get this order!

September video!

hey new video for the September enerty!! will have another one for the blog soon!!

Half Tone Success!

So i just finished my very first halftone image and at first i did not think that my printer would be capable of doing it but it did! The images i have done are one is of Jim Morrison which is in the picture and the other is of Betty Page, which i have not yet done but hopefully will get to do today!


So when making a Half tone image you do not want to use a screen such as 110 or 156 mesh screen probably not even 230. The screen that i used was a 305 mesh screen and it worked very well. also when exposing it only takes about 12 min with a 500 watt work light so just a min or 30 seconds less then normal because there is less emulsion on the screen in comparision to what a 110 or a 21o would have.

As you can see in the picture all the lil dots that make the image work together to make a shadow look and to make it seem almost like a picture. This print was for a friend of mine who wanted it on her sweater.

and after having it on her sweater she said
"He's yummmmy" Kalya

What a creep

Slow days and Half tones

Well the past few days have been coming pretty slow not much jobs fro this little town! But i still trying to keep busy.

I have a friend woh is wanting to start his own clothing brand so i am going to be the one to make the shirts and what not and help design also. Ill have some pictures of the first shirts i make for him when that is done! it will be a Whit and Black 2 color print on a bunch of differnet color shirts. They will come out good and hopefully start business with him as his business grows too.

I also am going to be trying half tones! i have tried some pretty detailed images before but nothing like hal tones so ill be having some pictures about that and how it goes.

For the half tones i just have Photoshop and for this certian image it is just black and white photo so i simply went to flatten it and grayscale the image. When that was done i used bitmap to make the half tones. This next part i now sure about.. but i use a 165 setting to i have more define image and i used 55 and 45 degree angle although i have no idea what that is for. I'll fine out soon tho. but i print it and it came out good and seems dark enough so we'll see how it exposes.

How to coat a Screen!

Make sure you have a degreased, dry silk screen ready for use.

For this use the CCI DXP Diazo-Photopolymer Dual Cure Direct Emulsion from ryonet.

Mix up your photo emulsion according to the directions on the package. The emulsion has two parts, the first being a pink liquid, the second a clear "activator." The emulsion is light-sensitive when these two parts are combined, attaining its greatest sensitivity when fully dry.

Pour about 4 oz. of the mixed emulsion into a scoop coater.

Place the silk screen in a vertical position tipped slightly back, about 75 to 70 degree angle from the floor with the flat side of the screen facing you. Make sure that it is wedged in such a way so as not to move when you apply pressure to it.

Hold the scoop coater horizontally in both hands and press with enough pressure so that a bead line is across the screen. Tip the scoop coater so that the emulsion makes even contact across the entire lip of the coater and the tape of the screen.

Pull upward until you reach the top of the screen but a inch or so from the frame. There should now be an even, thin film of emulsion across the surface of the screen.

Tip the scoop coater back, breaking contact with the screen while being careful not to drip any emulsion. If there is any excess emulsion at the top of the screen that is threatening to move down onto its surface, wipe it away with a paper towel.

Repeat the process you have used for the two sides so as to coat the entire image area.

Wipe up any excess emulsion immediately after finishing the coating and place the screen face up in a dark closet or room to dry. This will take about 3 hours under normal conditions, but can be speeded up considerably by using a fan to blow air over the surface of the screen.

Use a plastic spatula to push the excess emulsion out of the scoop coater and into the container.

2 Color print!!

So i finally did my two color print and it came out ok! i like it

the print is a Black shirt with red and white print on it. Here it is...




This is thw final product. It came out good but the main problem i had was that registration. It was hard to get the
image on the same part of the screen and to line up on the pallet right but it came out good!

The press was the silver press from Ryonet and also using the red ryonet opaque ink allowed me not to have to use a white back and saving me ink and time. It worked great!


My brother, who it was for, liked it too. Now i need to practice getting the regstrations down and it'll be better.
Also i have finished the set up for every thing in the garage so i will be having a video on that along with how to apply emulsion to a screen.

So busniess is getting better but wit more and more practice i will be able to deliver beter and more appealing products to my customers.

Silver press fun

Well i just set up every thing in my garage and it is looking very good!! I will be having a video tour of it all and show the things that i made! but for now i have just used my four color silver press today! it works like a dream. Even though i have not printed more then one color i printed a patch today, and double printing is a thing of the past.

I had a image on a screen for my brother who had been wanting a patch of his band and i did the prints. A white print on black cloth and it came out great. when it was not white enough i simply flash cured it and printed again and it came out with no problems or double prints. this is a good advantage over the magnet press i was using before! Also i will have pictures of before the silver press and with it because the accuracy is great for the price!
i will soon be done a 2 color print and will have more on that as it comes up
Thanks,

Dont Over Load!

So i have another customer that came to me today and they are wanting a simple two color job. Basically they just want thier logo on the front and back of the shirt. it is a pretty simple design but i have not done a multi color yet. He said it wasn't in a rush but i still want to have good work done out and ready for him so that i might be able to get more customers.

Well busniess is kind of starting to pick up so the progress on my set up. I will have a set up for my new press and all and i will also be having a video on how to screen print when i get that done. But also a very important thing to remember is to not take a job that you cannot handle for a situation. I almost took a 300 shirt job with only my little one color press and a heat gun! that would have taken a VERY long time.

Although the profit on that job would have been amazing they needed all of them within a few days! but they ended up not ordering them and not being able to have anything made because a lack of budget.

Once i get maybe like a flash dryer such as Ryonets, 16x16" Econo Flash Dryer. it looks great and everything i have used from them has been perfect! i really looking into it i jus need the money to afford it

thanks

Shirts For The Dead!!!

The Funeral Shirts are Done! And here it is!

Heat Gun Problemo!!

Well the shirts for the funeral are all done! I got done faster than I thought it would take. Also my customers were very pleased with how they came out and the overall product. They were happy that I was able to get the shirts done fast and the quality.

Though the shirts came out good and I was able to make them in a short time production had a lot of standing moments because mainly of one thing. That is the heat gun!! It would be ok for small logos or for just a few shirts but for a lot and to speed up production it take something more like a flash dryer.

With the heat gun it takes up to 3 to 5 minutes just to cure the image and sometimes it is not a 100% thing. But for speeding up the production and to save time cutting it down to only about a minute would be great! I am thinking about saving up for a flash dry unit or something. But in the mean time I need a temporary solution for the dreaded heat gun I just don’t know any! Does anyone have a solution?

Other than that problem production for this shirt went good and according to plan and was pretty smooth. But really if anyone has an extra flash dryer or one they want to sell comment me and let me know I need a solution of some sort!

Thanks, Danny

Funeral shirt UPDATE!

So a quick update on the shirts I am making for the funeral is that i told the customer that i will have the shirts done and ready by tomorrow evening! i have everything set up i just need to print it and it will be done. They were happy with how fast i was able to get thing going and on the ball.

This is good so that they will refer me to their friends and hopefully bring in more business. Well the exposure part of the process is pretty easy! I still using my 500 watt halogen light. I am looking forward to trying to get a good black light exposure unit. Maybe the Aluminum UV Screen Exposure Unit 20"x24" from Ryonet Corp. and Silkscreeningsupplies.com . I know it is a good exposure unit and would help with half tones and detail designs!

Well more video will come up with progress on the shirt and also on the set up and use of the new press from Ryonet ! Also still working on a way to get a flash dryer unit because a heat gun just is not cutting it now it taking too long to cure one shirt. So if any one has an idea on making a make shift one for temporary or anything comment below and let me know!
Thanks,

New Video

So this is the screen for the shirt more of this will come up later!

The print will be black on a red shirt.

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First Order

So I still do not have my 4 color press set up but I am still going to print on my one color press I already have. Well this order is for a friend and their boss has just passed away 2 days ago. They really liked him and were more than a boss to his employees. But this order is going to be a simple one color print but I always have trouble figuring out how much to charge my customers when they ask how much I will charge.

I know there is no full proof way but I want to be able to know a ball park range on what to charge. I want to have good prices that will want customers to come back and refer me to other people but i also want to be able to make a profit so that I can save and continue to expand on my screen printing capabilities.

So far I think I am ok especially that my customer had purchased the shirts they wanted to be used and also and my profit is high enough for this order. In the past I usually charge like $10 per shirt for 5 shirts and that’s one color one side. Then of course the price varies from how many shirts to how many colors and if they want front and back.

Such as if I were to make 25 shirts that were 2 colors front only I would probably charge about $8 a shirt so that after purchasing the shirts I have room for profit and paid for my time.

But really I have a good time screen printing and to see the final result of an accomplishment is great! But more of this order will be up soon.

Thanks,

Waiting!!

Well I still have not got all my equipment set up because the garage needs to be cleaned out and the table needs to be built. I am jus anxious to get everything set up and working for my first muilt color prints with Ryonets 4 color 1 station silver press. The plan that I have for my table will be big enough for my old single color press and now for my new 4 color press. I will be showing the progress with a video later on when this is all done. Also I am going have to build a bigger box that will hold my screens and keep them in the dark. With the help of Ryonet I was able to almost double how many screens i have!


I am really excited to get my business going. Only thing is my brother need to move his stuff out of my way! Ha But I will soon be printing so no worries. I already have ideas on a product name "D-Bot" or "D-Bot Prints". Also going to make my own designs and hopefully sell them to a local skate shop here in my town. I know what kind of stuff people would wear but it’s just trying to stray people from the brands that they usually get to something new!


I was wondering where to buy Tee shirts in a bulk that wouldn't be too expensive. If you know of any just comment me below!

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Thanks, Danny

The Start!

Well Hey every one! This is Danny. I just got my order in today and it looks like this is going to work out great. The 4 color 1 station silver press looks great. Well after putting the new press on my old table i immediate realized this is not going to work! ha So I'm going to have to build my own table big and sturdy enough so it will last and work good with my situation.
As soon as i build it i will have pictures and some details on how i built my in case anyone is looking for ideas. Right now i just have the idea of an L- shaped table with plenty of storage space. Also i pretty sure i going to make some shelves also. Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks and keep in tuned!
Danny,