Screen Printing Basics

[mckennapl]

Beautiful video. I've been researching making my own press lately and this helped, while being very entertaining to watch. Thanks a ton.

[13hippopotamuses]

Dude this video is cash money!! Makes me want to start screen printing. Seeing a small local biz is always sick. Plus the design lapse was super cool seeing it all come together.

Nice job and awesome filming and documenting

[codemiesterbeats]

nice time lapse on the design!! this is amazing... i have long wanted to start a shirt company. You are a great inspiration! This is also a good general explaination of screenprinting... good luck

[joeygmc07]

i like this vid alot. me and my friend have a shirt co. going and i use fonts but how were you guys altering the font like adjusting it and all. is that illustrator or a diff software???

[fukem909]

thanks for the help

[doskalata]

its called ink, not paint. Cool video tho, props to your video team.

[eisamant]

oh yeah another question, where do you recommend you buy a press from?

[rainydaybwall]

@eisamant I buy most of my printing gear from: silkscreeningsupplies (.com)

[jakedamis]

This video is a complete win.. the soundtrack, the camera angels, and the overall way it was filmed... well done!

[rainydaybwall]

@jakedamis thanks very much!!!!

[eisamant]

Dude this video inspires me to make my own shop! I've been looking in to screen printing for a while now and I think I finally want to take it to the next level.. the only problem is i'm a broke college student. How did you guys start up your shop?

[rainydaybwall]

@eisamant thats awesome! I'm stoked to have inspired you! We started about 6 years ago, just me and my brother. We saved up about $1,000 and bought a cheap 4 color press and abunch of supplies: flash dryer, ink, screens, squeegees and exposure unit.

It was a really cheap set up but we started getting little t-shirt jobs, for local bands, skateshops, and churches. and it ended up paying for its self and we started making money to expand our equipment. Just start somewhere and it will build!

[eisamant]

@rainydaybwall Awsome dude, thats exactly how much I was looking to spend and thats actually some of the presses I've been looking at. Thanks for the advice and keep up the good work man!

[zekersssss]

hey where can i find that mickey mouse sweater? please help me haha

[rainydaybwall]

@zekersssss haha! not sure... I can try to ask Jake where he got it... probably from Disney World?

[zekersssss]

@rainydaybwall haha yea thanks lol its clean and fresh haha

[rjr1990]

Do these shirts fade fast? How many washings can they take?

[rainydaybwall]

@rjr1990 No they don't fade fast. They last a super long time with tons of washes. We didn't show the curing/heating step, where we cure the ink under a flash dryer.

[praizerskater]

do you reuse the screens or do you have a lot of mesh and just replace it?

[lucasm1212]

b-wall you are the man, its me lucas miranda from vimeo, we talked about sufjan, and again you are on top of the music with the temper trap

[rainydaybwall]

@lucasm1212 Thanks lucas! haha I appreciate that! I love good music! got any music suggestions for upcoming videos????

[lucasm1212]

@rainydaybwall a great instrumental duo is "el ten eleven" and another good band is "the myriad"

[rainydaybwall]

@tnkidincali12 oh rad! whats your board company???

[tnkidincali12]

@rainydaybwall meskin skateboards! ha ha richard from resist print them for me

[tnkidincali12]

brandon ur so talented! whats the tshirt deign website?

[rainydaybwall]

@tnkidincali12 thanks! oh yea hea accidentally said website. But he meant to say design program. ha. we did the design in adobe illustrator.

[neatneatneat815]

Awesome!