Screen Printing with the Vinyl Cutter

welcome back to another you media Chicago video here with Matt I am going to talk to you today about screen printing and using the vinyl cut process that we've used in the previous videos to create a screen that you will and use to make posters or t-shirts or whatever you want so I have my my tools set out here my pincher I got my poker here I got my peeler and I've got some snippers and those are you'll need to get a set of those tools exactly those are the recommended tools that that we use so this is a design that a student of ours made named Alex he's pretty awesome and he made this really great zine about a year ago called historic ATS and so this is kind of a an homage to that for our leaderboard t-shirts so you can see the difference is that instead of removing everything but the sticker here I am actually removing the design itself so what's orange is the vinyl and what's white is the sort of back backing part and the reason for that is when you screen print you're using a sort of permeable surface that allows ink to flow through it so you want to block the parts where you don't want ink in your design and you want to leave open the parts where you do want ink so we obviously want this sweet cat Napoleon to show up and we don't want the outside parts too so then the next step is to use transfer tape sort of a big sheet of it here to transfer the design to the screen and you'll want to put the design on the side that would be flush with the table and when you do that you also have to keep in mind that you want to flip your your design horizontally because everything will be refer it'll be sort of yeah upside down or sideways or whatever you can see I'm kind of burnishing the design at various points with my fingernails or with my pincers and those that's so that it sticks to the to the book to the transfer tape and then I'm going to do it again here to get it to try and stick more to the screen if pieces won't won't stick you can kind of just put a little extra pressure on them with your thumb or just sort of rub them a little bit with your with your fingers like I'm doing here and that should help them to stick to the screen relatively well and we don't really have very many problems with keeping them on once they're on it they yeah they just sort of stick pretty well but then when you want to get get them off they come off pretty well too you sort of scrape them off which is which is nice so the next step is to fill in any of the area that there isn't a design or vinyl so you're just going to use tape just like regular tape to sort of clean up around the area anywhere that there's sort of open silk you want to close up with tape and that blocks the paint as well you can do that with extra vinyl scraps if you have any or if you have transfer tape you kind of you need to like kind of tape the transfer tape down but you can see I kind of messed this one area up it's got like bubbles in it so I just sort of I'm just cutting it out and I'm just going to put tape over it okay so the next step is to use some looks like just like duck duck tape basically to put put down our platform so it's just just this piece of wood with a couple of clasps on it and I'm trying to Center it in the table so that everything just sort of lines up you know with my my line of sight like Vasia so you don't really have to measure to sort of eyeball it and then I'm going to try and Center this screen on that just so that it's the most sort of put together it can be and I'm not like guessing and then again with that in mind you use a piece of mylar which is just sort of thickish like clear plastic and you use that make some sort of tape hinges on the side and you are going to use that to a register where the design lands and you can see I'm kind of putting a lot of paint out and the reason for that is it's it's pretty difficult to use too much paint although you don't want to get any paint where you don't want paint because it is fabric ink and well in this case it's fabric ink so we will stain and be permanent wherever it is but any extra paint at the end of the design you just you know you sort of scoop back into the container it's not like contaminated or anything well then you can see you've got my registration sheet sort of placing it down onto the t-shirt where the design is going to land and that that lets me Riu know sort of arrange where the shirt is going to to be there's a couple of different sort of like benchmarks for where you might might want it but then once you know it's it's good good to go and you can start printing now the trick with printing is to have lots of even pressure across the entire squeegee so I like to spread my fingers across and sort of prioritize pressure in the center because the the outsides often get more pressure just naturally and then there's sort of one stroke at the end where you sort of push all the excess paint back to the top of the screen that's that's called flooding and it make sure that the screen is filled with with ink which allows it to not dry and then it's it's off to the to the races you just do it again and again speed is a bit of an issue because if you take a long time the paint can can dry and start sort of block the screen but other than that it's it's pretty straight for straightforward you just do the same process so good good luck please contact us if you have any issues and that's that

Channel: YOUmediaChicago

Views: 766,385

Keywords: Vinyl, chipublib, how to, screen printing

Id: aBinYeoEhxc

Length: 6min 56sec (416 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 16 2015