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We prefer to use the Jerzees when we can. It seems that lately Gilden has been getting a lot of oil or grease stains on them.

cool thanks all. Dan

Hey all, Looking for a paint mask supplier around Michigan, hopefully in a 1 or 2 day shipping range. Any help would be grateful. Thanks in advance.

forgot to mention practice practice practice.

Silk screen machine Exposure unit ( or build your own could also use the sun.) Screens Emulsion ink Customers. Some others have done it with just screens and vinyl for the stencil. all depends how serious you want to get.

I use coreldraw also and have noticed that when you design in corel then open it in flexi that somehow there are extra elements produced. What I ended up doing is selecting the elements 1 by 1 and deleting them to see if there is a duplicate under the original.

We would be $3.00 for the first color and $.25 per color after that plus shirt cost. we can print 4 colors. set up fee would be $40.00. plus S&H.

another way to do that in Corel draw would be to select the outline and convert it to an object.

try this colesvg.svg colesvg.svg

Names, Small quantity orders, one offs. screen printing is for large orders. We do anything over 12 as screen printed. If the customer really wants a one off screen printed shirt we will gladly do that also but the price scares them away.

Looks good. Did you use vinyl or Screen print?

If it was me I would screen print the design and use vinyl for the numbers. If you do you are going to want to use an low bleed ink specifically for poly to keep the bleeding down. The worst colors that bleed are the blues and reds. If you have more than one color and want to keep cost down then use the poly ink for an underbase and then do the rest with regular ink. Another option would be screen printed transfers, make sure you tell them that they are for poly.

Grabbed it to! thanks!!!!

Inkscape is your friend

Don't know about shadowing that one. I would copy the text then increase the original by 5 to 10 percent then paste the copy put a 2 or 3 pt. white stroke around it and shift it manually.

Hi Donnie, What you are looking for are the rulers that run along the top and the left of the drawing window. Go to the view menu and select rulers. by going to the top of the screen and left clicking and dragging the mouse you can get a reference line to set wherever you want (also works the same with the left side of the window. Next if you click and drag the upper left corner of the window you can set the 0 point anywhere in the drawing area. hope this helps. Dan

We use 90%? hydrogen peroxide in our shop as a scorch remover. works pretty good spray or dab it on light scorches run it through the dryer. We have found that this does not always work and make sure you get hydrogen peroxide and not the peroxide for hair.

Hi all, Just getting into vinyl cutting I am adding it to the screen printing that I currently do. Located in Grass Lake Mi. Purchased a seiki 540t cutter. So far it has done an excellent job.

Hi, Coldwater not really that far from me, maybe 45 mins. ever get down to the Jonesville riverfest?

sorry missed y our last post. Yo might want to find a screen printer who is in your area and ask him if you could visit him. You will have a lot more questions after you see this done. I remember that I did.

You might also want to try One Stop in Grand Rapids Mi. They are a little closer to your location. I use them primarily for ink and Squeegees. the hardest part in screen printing is the artwork. if you don't get that right the rest is not going to go well. After you have the ink on the shirt you still need to dry it. Start simple and work your way up. I'm getting the supplies next month to start 4 color process prints. The one thing that I would have done different is I would have gotten at least a 6 color 4 station press instead of the 4 color that I have now.