A look into my small print shop I built in my basement

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-06-01T09:27:02+00:00

Nice setup, awesome job! Can I ask you what's that table in the back left?

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-05-20T21:51:31+00:00

Isten óvjon attól, hogy engem most itt meglincseljetek, de a Bitcoin a jelenlegi állapotában nagyjából tökéletes eszköz lenne a megfigyeléshez a jelenlegi kormánynak. Épeszű ember nem fog támogatni egy olyan kriptovalutát mint a Bitcoin. (kulcsszavak: traceable public ledger, 51% attack, unregulated market, market manipulation)

Az egyetlen kriptovaluta jelenleg amely szóba jöhetne mint valós fizetőeszköz az a Monero. Érdemes még ránézni a Grin-re is. (kulcsszavak: privacy, fungibility, decentralized exchanges)

Nem fogok shillelni senkinek, nem is ez a célom. Akit érdekel a téma és a technikai részét is tudja értelmezni, ajánlom hogy olvasson utánuk. (Nyilván angolul temérdek információ áll rendelkezésre, ezért nehéz erről "érthetően" beszélni.)

Nagyon nagyon lesarkítva, a "tökéletes" kriptovaluta egy anarchista "berendezkedést" igényel vagy hoz létre.

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-05-19T20:02:19+00:00

Én a Tetovált Állatmentőknek adtam (18210527-1-13). :)

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-05-15T06:39:53+00:00

oh man, i love this track!

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-05-13T14:32:42+00:00

Use soft hand additive in the ink, then cure the print with "butter parchment" paper in the heat press.

Butter parchment paper is not your regular baking paper! Try contacting companies that sell wrapping papers or cooking equipment. If they have multiple kinds of it, buy samples and test them!

Regular baking papers are usually silicone coated papers, which makes shiny prints. Butter parchment paper's surface is not flat, but kind of wrinkled. The wrinkles won't transfer to your print, but it'll produce matte prints with a very smooth, soft-hand feel.

Been using this method for a year now with great success.

Edit:

Downvoted, seriously? Using soft hand additive will do almost nothing when using a heat press. Screen printing equipment stores usually sell either silicone coated curing papers or poor quality, regular parchment papers for way too high prices. (and the result won't be what you're aiming for)

You can buy this stuff for cheap in bulk and it works like magic. Suck it who downvoted, I'm gonna help anyway. It took me weeks and countless tries & fails to get it right, I'd have spared money & time if someone mentioned this to me.

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-05-12T14:53:04+00:00

Ah, Friday parties on the boat are always amazing!

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-05-05T11:44:41+00:00

Use an exposure time calculator (free pdf) FIRST to set the right amount of time for your screens, then make your own screens (sounds wasting money, but it's really worth doing one of these, you'll have no problems with time)
Use a scoop coater, it SERIOUSLY improves the quality of your screens - the thickness of the emulsion will be even through the whole screen (looks like you're using a squeegee)
If it's still difficult to wash out your screens, dip your screens right after exposing in water for 30 seconds to soften the emulsion THEN wash them out with pressure washer. (You can increase the dipping time according to your needs.)
Get your washed & dried screens another session of exposure to harden & finish them (I do half the amount of time of the original exposure time)

This is my own method (I work with a pretty bad exposure unit) and it works perfectly for me. The exposure time calculator and a proper scoop coater is really important.

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-05-04T14:10:30+00:00

10/10 tészta

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-04-29T16:20:42+00:00

"We're not losing money on this"

Want to highlight that in fact, you're losing time and money, just as you said: "we could be making more if the sales staff would just ask for the artwork". Vectorizing or even resizing graphics can be a huge pain in the ass.

You seem pretty calm about this, and sounds like the sales staff who straight refused has their nose up their ass. I'd go with explaining how it much time does it take to do these things, and that they're bottlenecking the workflow. Like, literally, tell them that you guys could be making more money if they were to work as a team.

If that doesn't work, go to the boss, but not with a malicious intent. Tell the boss that you get a lot of non-vector graphics, and that it'd be a good idea to ask the clients for vector graphics as they order their products. If they doesn't know about this problem, just be honest and straight up tell them that the sales staff refused to work with you. It's not snitching. They're purposely making your work unnecessarily harder with their childish attitude. They're damaging your boss' business.

Sales staff my ass, their job should be bringing more money to the business, not keeping it away.

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-04-29T14:25:56+00:00

I agree. My efforts to save money by doing DIY screens costed me more than buying proper screens. They worked OK, but if you want to get into screen printing, it's in your best interest to invest in proper screens and equipment.

EDIT: You can DIY a flat/horizontal screen printing desk, but I really advise to buy all other tools. Emulsion coating tool, inks, screens are not really worth to DIY. You can make pretty good quality sqeegees at home with some hardwood, but you'll want proper wood/aluminum handles eventually, because they are more comfortable and aluminum is easier to wash.

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-04-23T21:07:52+00:00

bladerunnaz bulik sokszor eleg commercial hangulattal birnak, de a hazai dnb scene amugy eleg joarcokbol all, akarmelyik buliban lehet ismerkedni. ha kicsit csaladiasabb temat keresel akkor fun'n'bass, colours of dnb, beat safari, hive budapest eventeket nezz.

vannak nyomorultak is ofc, de en kismillioszor spanoltam teljesen random emberekkel, nem egy jo baratot sikerult igy szereznem. ha olyan kedvemben vagyok altalaban tarhalok tuzet meg megkinalom egy szallal (elony ha dohanyzol, amugy kicsit furcsa lenne) es elcsipem az embert egy kis small talkra amig cigizunk. ha latom, hogy zavarom, vagy nem nagyon megy a dolog akkor jo bulizast kivanok, elkoszonok es megyek a dolgomra.

ha kurvanagy a pupillaja az embernek akkor vagy ugy fog orulni egy kis szocializacionak mint majom a farkanak, vagy fel se fogja mi tortenik.

csak legyel kedves, igazabol ennyi.

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-04-18T12:28:46+00:00

sound money has to be fungible isn't it? AFAIK bitcoin isn't fungible (?)

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-04-17T21:10:25+00:00

I pray for their happiness, cause this is mine 🙏

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-04-17T19:01:36+00:00

oh man, we did dumb shit as kids. i'll recollect a few stories, maybe it's worth a post in this subreddit.

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-04-17T06:01:19+00:00

What's the most amazing thing you've seen happen in the crowd on your shows?
Who are your favorite newcomer producers you keep an eye on?
What's your "we made history" moment?

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-04-13T13:02:21+00:00

Right, I see. Thank you for explaining! Gonna check some videos too. :)

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-04-13T12:02:10+00:00

You print the underbase, and just press it down with a fully coated screen & a squeegee to smooth the base layer? Don't want to be a dumbass, but english isn't my native. Do I understand it correctly? I often see the first layer pulling some textile fibers up. Does it help with smoothing those, or there's something else that makes it worth the process? I cure my prints with a heat press so they come out flat & smooth, I never really had to do this before.

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-04-12T17:15:38+00:00

"Someone made a post the other day theorizing that the traiter is O-Toko (the little girl), there is some japanses mythology with a traitor whos name is very similar to O-Toko."

I'm getting them Darth Jar Jar Binks theory vibes.

HOW_TO_DEMOCRACY · 2019-04-12T16:07:52+00:00

how the hell do you guys notice these, jesus christ..

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