Setting Up the Screens for Printing

A Manual screen printing press

After making and exposing our screens, We need to prep the printing press for printing.

We do this by setting each screen (color) into the press heads (a six color press has six printing heads). We will set them in order by color, light colors first in sequence to the darkest color, usually black last.

We need to align each print color to the other to ensure correct registration throughout the printing process.

We then add ink colors to the screens and then squeegees to the screen print heads. The squeegees will move across the screen to push the ink through and onto the T-shirt.

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