Shade printed Tshirt
You can physique a three colour Shade printing press for approximately two hundred dollars in materials. This is a table top press, reduce absent of a four foot square collection of thick plywood, and place on maxim horses. With experience, it is credible to print three colour designs in excelling register on this press. A genius used rotary Shade printing album press costs at least a thousand dollars. This mild at ease unreal press can acquire you started for a fraction of the value.
Instructions
1. Degree 14 inches from the side of the plywood and trail a string 22 inches extended. Degree another 2.5 inches In relation to the centre of the board and attract a column duplicate to the beginning contour. Connect the two lines where they confine, 22 inches expanded. Haul a mirror facsimile of these lines on the other side of the plywood, counterpart to them. Practice the jig aphorism to chop channels into the board where the lines are haggard. The world left in the Centre of the board is the shirt board, where shirts or paper Testament be loaded on the press to print.
2. Degree from the inside foot of Everyone channel a four by four inch square, pointing back in In relation to the shirt board centre. Cut the four by four inch squares out with the jig saw. This creates room for the shirt end when it is loaded on the press.
3. Use the jig saw to round the four corners of the shirt board. Sand smooth all edges of the shirt board where cuts have been made with the jig saw.
4. Take the piece of two by two lumber and cut a bevel on one end at a 45 degree angle. Place the beveled end centered under one side of the shirt board, running all the way to the other end of the four by four foot plywood, and screw or nail into place. This will support the shirt board during printing operations.
Fasten clamps to the plywood surface with wood screws. Screens will be placed in the clamps and brought down over the shirt board for printing operations.7. Hammer a small nail or brad into each corner of the masonite or pressed board about two inches in from the edge of the shirt board. Use the jig saw to chop round corners to match the rounded corners of the shirt board underneath the masonite. Sand the edges and corners of the masonite or pressed board until smooth.
6. Place a set of two screen print clamps opposite each of the three sides of the shirt board. Find the center point of each side and measure four inches in either direction.5. Cut a piece of 1/4" masonite or pressed board to 15 inches square. Fasten to the top of the shirt board on the side opposite the beveled support board with wood glue.
Build two saw horses using saw horse clamps, nails and two by four lumber. Set the height of the saw horses to your waist. Place the table top screen printing press on top of the saw horses and fasten with wood screws.
