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How To Screen Print on Moisture Wicking Performance Garments by Hanes

For all your screen printing supply needs go to http://www.screenprinting.com/ TRANSCRIPT: Hey screen printers, it’s Ryan from Ryonet and in today’s screen printing instructional video we are going to show you how to screen print on this “Hanes X-Temp Unisex Performance T-shirt 60/40 Blend moisture wicking garment” - This print will be a featured print in this fall’s Back To School Screen Print Experience classes throughout the U.S. so if you learn something in this video, you can experience it live and hands on at a screen print experience class near you. While most performance garments are difficult to print, the Hanes X-Temp provides several advantages both for the printer and the end user who will wear it. 1.X-TEMP is the perfect shirt because it provides the performance of 100% polyester with the comfort of ring-spun cotton. 2.The hand really is incredible and it also provides a smooth printing surface which will help us use less ink and achieve a brighter print with finer detail. Today we are going to challenge ourselves even more by printing this design with water based ink. We will be using Green Galaxy Comet White for our underbase and a custom pantone gold Color we mixed earlier using only the Green Galaxy Opaque Core and Fusion Gold Pigment to give the overprint the opacity it needs. To avoid dye migration, we mixed Warp Drive Low Cure Catalyst into the ink at 1.5% which lowers the curing temp to 250 degrees. Today we are using a generous amount of traditional RyoMist in order to ensure that the garment stays in place during printing. (explain why - performance garments move around a bit more on the pallet, etc…) The underbase: Because we are printing on moisture wicking polyester we are going to print the underbase with 110 mesh print flash print flash. The Warp Drive mixes into the comet white at 1.5% and allows it to fully cure at 250 degrees with a 48 hour sit time after printing. As you can see, we have good off contact, about ⅛” and we have a tight screen, right around 20 newtons. Most water based inks require two passes but the key here is ensuring all the ink has transferred from our mesh onto the garment. We do a quick flash so the touch of the garment is tacky but not cured, this should be in the 200-220 degree range if you are temping it. then we do 1-2 passes again. the print should look nice and bright with a full coverage deposit, flash again and move on to the over print. Overprint: For the overprint ink We’re using a 156 mesh screen with a good amount of off contact ⅛” because of the poly garment. We should be able to accomplish an overprint with two passes and no flash, if you have issues with this you can always add a flash to build up the ink deposit. It looks great with two passes. Now we cure the ink, we want a good dwell time to dry the ink but we DO NOT want the garment to reach over 250 degreees Once flashed we test for tackiness, if it feels good we let the shirt sit for 48 hours to test for bleeding before we do a stretch test. After 48 hours the print looks great, we can go to market or do a wash test to make sure our print is really solid. Remember you can print this exact print with low cure plastisol or water base yourself hands on and ask as many questions as you want at one of our Hanes sponsored BACK TO SCHOOL Screen Print Experience classes this fall, check out screenprinting.com for more info on our screen printing classes and be sure to subscribe to our youtube channel for more awesome screen printing videos! Check out our facebook page:   / ryonet   Find us on Twitter and Instagram: @Ryonet