We've been talking about screening our own shirts for months, and this morning we got our chance to try our hands at it. Like I've mentioned on earlier posts, our pal Jesse Lalonde whipped up a rad design for us, and our neighbor Gabriel Sosa at Official Screens down here in SE Portland made the screen for us.
This morning, Gabriel invited us over to print up a half dozen shirts with his instruction so that we could learn the right way to "git er done," as the kids say. We rolled over there with our screen and some garments and here is what happened:
Step one, get the screen set up on the screen lift, center it, and tape it for easier clean up down the road. This was a four screen rotation station.
Step two, get the shirt in place. Doing it square and doing it quick takes a bit o' practice. That is Gabriel in the back ground. He obviously has a pretty rad set up.
Step three, ink the screen up and give the shirt a couple of passes. Not too much pressure now.
Step four, flash dry the first ink for about 20 seconds and pull it again. This will set up the first ink and the second pass and flash, will gel it giving you a bright, defined screen image.
Step five, the final dry. A shot from the driver seat.
Step six, rep it hard.
There are a few shirts available now, and we'll probably screen a whole bunch in the coming week. For $10 you can have one for yourself. Did I mention these are American Apparel shirts? I know, smoking deal huh?
