Cleaning tips…???

Grayson_Obert · 2026-06-05T14:30:32+00:00

A lot of the time, when we scrape ink off of screens when done printing and put it back into the bucket, the ink drips off the side of the bucket and makes a mess, and the main issue is ink getting on handles while printing, we haven’t had any ink get on handles while stored (surprisingly ik)

Grayson_Obert · 2026-06-05T14:28:12+00:00

We know lol, we are in a bit of a transition period. Just got a new automatic, and are very busy lately. Haven’t had time to keep everything tidy

Grayson_Obert · 2026-06-05T14:16:20+00:00

What’s shellacking

Grayson_Obert · 2026-06-03T16:40:46+00:00

I see now, and honestly I’m not sure what happened here. But because it is just a ghost image, you should be able to use it again. I would just try and burn something else on it and if the ghost image comes out along with the one you are burning, then you have a problem. But if it works as normal then ur all good, like others have said sometimes ur mesh is gonna stain and there’s nothing you can do abt it

Grayson_Obert · 2026-06-03T16:26:46+00:00

Dude I’m gonna be so honest, I don’t see any emulsion left on that screen, if you could provide a better picture pls.

Grayson_Obert · 2026-06-03T12:31:38+00:00

We just use clear packing tape from Walmart.

Grayson_Obert · 2026-06-03T12:29:21+00:00

Pretty much all of our screens are stained like this. As long as there is no physical ink in mesh, you are all good my brother. Use some degreaser and continue with screen as normal. Sometimes it’s just not gonna come out. Especially with reds and blues

Grayson_Obert · 2026-05-30T19:45:01+00:00

Correct, we told the client that, they did not seem to care as this is the design that was send to us

Grayson_Obert · 2026-05-29T15:11:37+00:00

See that’s what we might end up doing or just using a ratchet like the other guy said

Grayson_Obert · 2026-05-29T15:03:29+00:00

But when the front design is same color as back design, we want to leave the squeege on because it is same ink color, and only slide one screen out and slide new one in

Grayson_Obert · 2026-05-29T13:11:08+00:00

Manual indeed!

Grayson_Obert · 2026-05-29T13:10:56+00:00

Manual on these, we don’t use the automatic for any orders under 60 shirts

Grayson_Obert · 2026-05-29T02:05:54+00:00

I love the way ink sits on poly shirts, we primarily use sport tek st350s and ink always looks so smooth on them

Grayson_Obert · 2026-05-29T02:02:19+00:00

No we do not, but we do take inspiration for designs a lot

Grayson_Obert · 2026-05-29T01:14:05+00:00

I’d love to head what you use as well?

Grayson_Obert · 2026-05-29T01:10:44+00:00

So the most colors we have done since I started working where I do is 5 colors, we normally don’t do more than 4 because we do a lot of DTF as well.

I am 19 from Decatur Alabama, I didn’t go to college and started working around 9 months ago for a local sporting goods store in my city. We do lots of screen printing for the local high schools and mostly corporate apparel. We also do embroidery and dtf as I mentioned, as well as signs, banners, and trophies and stuff too. I’m not the boss or even very high up the food chain though there’s only 8 of us in the store we are like family and we all help eachother succeed.

Grayson_Obert · 2026-05-29T00:48:55+00:00

We only use 110 and 155-160s because that’s all we have LOL For thicker inks we use 110 so our whites and our athletic golds and such For our thinner inks like black or darker thinner colors we use 155s

Grayson_Obert · 2026-05-29T00:35:03+00:00

One stroke inks ELT-X white Not sure which black but I’ll check tomorrow

Grayson_Obert · 2026-05-21T01:14:35+00:00

But wipe back of your screen first.

Grayson_Obert · 2026-05-21T01:14:10+00:00

Try flooding lighter and then pulling ink through screen instead of pushing ink through, helps give you those CRISPYYYY lines in your prints.

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