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    I have done shirts 1 color front and back for $7.00. did 500 for a club.

    500 shirts $600

    1 gallon ink $60

    $3500 -$660 Profit in pocket $2840 still half the gallon of ink left

    grey shirts black ink 1 hit. took 3 1/2 hrs.

    its good to have a silkscreen printing business.

  19. Posted

    On 2/19/2017 at 6:29 PM, SeeJaysPlace said:

    you do not use vinyl for screen printing.. 

     

    You can seejay use vinyl to screenprint. I do it all the time for small orders. Mainly with slogans.. I use 651 and cut out the image then weed the letters out leaving the negative and use the Oracle as tape instead of wasting other tape.

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    19 hours ago, AboveCreations said:

    Exactly.  this was all an experiment for me since I happen to have a Epson 1400 just sitting here that I've had for many years.  It sits in the basement, in the box most of the time.  Occasionally I done 13x19 poster pictures for friends and family.  I read good things and thought I'd try with the sublimation.  Oh well... I hope others have a better experience than what I did,

    There have been others that do switch between inks since the 1400 and all desk top printer don't have printer lines like the big professional printers like my old 7600. Some would switch out inks and do a 10 page print them sub on some blank poly test pieces from Joanns to make sure the regular was ink was not still in the head. And do a wash test. Or you could buy  head unclog ink that comes with a syringe needle and a tube remove the cartridges and fill the syringe with it and push a little in it run a text print of 5 pages then install the other cartridges (oe) and you should be golden. It works cuz I use to do it. Also I don't use cobra cause there inks are like you said to expensive and I know they don't make the ink. So they have to buy it from some other place that does. They just have someone make them a color profile for the inks they use. I use a ciss with the color monitor calibration lcd or adobe 1998 profile and have seen no difference in prints from a Epson surecolor f2000 to mines.I take prints to the iss long Beach and test up close.I use a company by me called superjetusa.com to get all my inks and ciss from been using her for 4yrs tell her Que referred you. Her prices are cheaper and don't use a profile.here is a phone stand from Conde I did last year with her ink.

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    14 hours ago, AboveCreations said:

    Hey folks.  I am new at all of this and I am considering moving into screen printing.  I've researched a bit and watched a few youtube videos, but none of them really give any details of what vinyl they use.  I am planning to do the shirt screen print.  I have some 631 vinyl.  Would that be ok for screen printing, or do you recommend something heavier or thicker?

    Also, do you ever mix-match screen printed garments with something like Siser Easyweed?  That may look funky, I am not sure.  I ask that because if I am doing a bunch of screen print of say 2 color, but the customer wanted a person's name on the garment... kind of a hassle to setup a screen print for each name.  Just wondering how anyone handles something like that?  Thanks.

    631 is repositional vinyl so you dont want that. use 651 or higher. using vinyl is good for block letters but not for that really detailed print. I use to use vinyl but stopped using it. I just use emulsion.