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Advanced Screen Printing - 3 day Workshop
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| 2 @ | $675.00 each | |
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| 4 @ | $625.00 each | |
| 5 @ | $600.00 each |
- - 100% Money Back Guarantee
- - Mixed Manual and Automatic equipment
- - 48 page course workbook
- - Speciality Fabrics & Speciality Inks
- - Plastisol & Waterbased Inks
- - Coat Screens Manual, Semi-Auto & Fully Automatic
- - Align artwork with Film Positives, Computer to Screen & Direct to screen
- - Register images with Micro reg, Pre-Registration & Pin Registration
- - Expose Screens with LED & CTS LED
- - Calibrate flash time Infrared vs Quarts
- - Measure & Calibrate dryer setting for various ink & garment combos
- - Print 75% on manual press & 25% on automatic press
- - Critical Variables in Pre-Press, On-Press & Post-Press
- - Learn how to Measure Variables to achieve better QC
- - $350,000 in classroom equipment
- - Over 800 5 Star Reviews for the Training Center
- - Worth the Trip- Students from 44 of the states in USA
- - Also Students from Austria, Canada & Trinidad
- - 60% Hands-On Class
- - No Boring Lectures
- - Non- Refundable
- - PG-13 Occasional Adult Humor
- - Availability: Limited to 10 people
Advanced Speciality Inks & Substrates
100% Money Back Guarantee! The unconditional refund of the full purchase price paid will be refunded. At the end of the 1st day, if you don't feel you have already gotten your money's worth or this course isn't delivering up to your expectations. You can notify the instructor or if you prefer, just send us an email and do not attend the remaining days and we quickly refund the purchase price.
Does the thought of printing on a $40 or $100 garment give you nightmares or worse yet do you simply pass on these high-profit specialtiy jobs? Or do you want to be familiar with the coolest special FX and specialty inks to put your shop or brand at the leading edge of new technology?
This class has been 3 years in the making. Students who have attended our 3 Day Pro class have been asking for an advanced class and it is here! This course is NOT for beginners, if you have been printing a few years and feel that your skills are above average, then welcome. If not, we highly recommend starting with the 3-day Pro Class first.
As far as we know this is the first of its kind, an immersive workshop that is a mixed genre, meaning students will use both manual and automatic equipment, in all areas, pre-press, on-press and post-press.
You will learn to use various types of plastisol, waterbased, discharge, Low Cure, Poly, Puff, Glitters, Glow-N-Dark and more. As well as printing onto a wide variety of substrates, including high end performance wear, poly-blends, rayon, nylon as well as standard 50/50 or 100% cotton.
Specialty Inks used during class
Plastisol Inks
Puff
Suede Puff
H.D. Clear
High Density Sculpture
Plush
Glow-N-Dark
Waterbased Inks
Standard
High Opaque
Discharge
Speciality Photo, Thermo, etc.
Skill sets covered in class
- - Coat Screens Manual, Semi-Auto & Fully Automatic
- - Align artwork with Film Positives, Computer to Screen & Direct to screen
- - Register images with Micro reg, Pre-Registration & Pin Registration
- - Expose Screens with LED & CTS LED
- - Calibrate flash time Infrared vs Quarts
- - Measure & Calibrate dryer setting for various ink & garment combos
- - Print 75% on manual press & 25% on automatic press
- - Critical Variables in Pre-Press, On-Press & Post-Press
- - Learn how to Measure Variables to achieve better QC
- - $350,000 in classroom equipment
- - Over 800 5 Star Reviews for the Training Center
- - Worth the Trip- Students from 44 of the states in USA
- - Also Students from Austria, Canada & Trinidad
- - 60% Hands-On Class
- - No Boring Lectures
- - Non- Refundable
- - PG-13 Occasional Adult Humor
- - Availability: Limited to 10 people
Learn to measure as well as to control all the major variables, from Pre-Press, On-Press to Post-Press, this course covers ALL the fundamental skills a screen printer needs to master to tackle specialty jobs without fear.
This course is designed for manual screenprinter looking to aggressively grow their profits and business to transition to automatic in the future. Ideal for the press operator to the production manager looking to minimize downtime and print defects while improving the quality of prints and boosting productivity by controlling the variables that contribute to day-to-day production headaches.
We cover industry standard practices to advanced techniques, in our state-of-the-art classroom with $350,000 in classroom equipment.
We will be printing on Vastex V2000 manual press and a ROQ automatic press? Using a different brand of equipment? No worries, most of the information, tools, features, etc. Are easily transferred from one brand of the press to another.
During the 3 day course, we cover all the critical variables and how to control them BOTH Manually and by using various levels of automation in Pre-press making screens, to set up and print more efficiently On Press, breakdown, and reclamation post-press to overall increase quality, plus troubleshooting to lower defects while minimizing downtime and ultimately increase profitability!
We will help your shop tackle creating bright smooth vivid images, in various forms, PFP, Wet on wet and wet on wet over UB on a variety of substrates. From various forms of Vector to high-end process graphics that 80% of textile screen printers struggle to do successfully.
Including, Pre-Press to Post- Press, as we print multiple designs
- Bold Vector Images
- Fashion detailed Vector Images
- Simulated process at 80 lpi,
- Tonal print at 70 lpi
- 4 color process at 75lpi
Q& A Quick Links
Equipment Used Tools & Assc Used Daily Description Hotels Nearby
A closer look at the classroom equipment
Pre-Press Department
¨ Vastex Semi-automatic screen coater
- Saati Automatic Screen Coater
¨ ROQ Pre-Registration for automatic press
- VRS Pre-Registartion for manual press
¨ Dri_vault Screen dry cabinet
- Vastex E-2000 Highoutput LED unit
¨ Riso Goccopro Computer to Screen System
¨ Exile Spyder II CTS Direct to Screen printer
¨ V-Lux glasses LED exposure unit
On Press Department
¨ ROQ-E 10 station / 8 color
- V2000 10 station / 10 color manual press
¨ Smart Quartz Flash
- Red Flash High output Flash
¨ Cooling Fan
¨ Stampinator
¨ Vastex Big-Red 4D high performance dryer
Post Press Department
¨ Inpro TigerClean Automatic Screen Reclaiming Unit
¨ Folding machine
¨ Dip Tank
¨ Water Filtration
¨ Washout Booth
Tools
Tools & Accessories
¨ Hi-Dro Static frame
¨ Tension Meter
¨ Specialty squeegees
¨ Smoothing screen
¨ Donut Probe Temp
¨ 10X Magnifier
¨ Digital Microscope
¨ Exposure Calculator
¨ Durometer Gauge
¨ TQM Gauge measures EOM
¨ TQM Aqua Check
- TQM Safe Light Glasses
¨ Hygrometer
Class Sponsors
ROQ
Exile Graphics
Kor-Chem InPro
Vastex
Stampinator
Nortech Graphics
PMI Tape
Day ONE
Water Based Inks
Print Flash Print white on dark garments
Wet on Wet with a flashed under base on dark garments
Wet on wet on light garments
Metallics & Puff Inks
Bonus print on a cardboard box
Overview of process
Primary Variables to control in Pre-press
Pre-Press
Film positive Density
Standard VS “S” thread
Mesh Selection
Understanding Technical specs
Tension and its role in printing
Coating Screens Manual Vs Semi-Automatic
Pre-Registration system on Manual Press
Pre-Registration system on Automatic Press
Screen drying Cabinet
Setting up on press
Adjusting off contact
Squeegee - Speed, Angle, Pressure & stroke
Flood - Speed, Angle and Pressure & stroke
Soft flood and minimizing screen drying out
Squeegee
Understanding durometer and its impact
Single Durometer vs double and triple durometer
Print with All types of squeegees to see differences
Registration
Comparison Micro Registration vs Pre-Registration system
Set up prints using Pre-registration systems
Adjusting Print Parameters
Print Order
Squeegee adjustments
Flood Bar adjustments
Flashing
Types of Flash cures available
Setting base time and temp to match TDS of ink used
Adjusting Flash time for cold and hot pallets
Avoiding Overflash
Cooling Fan
Screen print Vector image jobs
Wet on wet onto light substrate
Print Flash Print onto dark garment
Wet on wet over a flashed underbase
Day Two - Print Poly on both Manual & Automatic Press
Printing on Performance wear with specialty plastisol inks
Screenprinting High-Resolution 80 lpi Images
Screenprinting Vector image
Overview of process
Understanding the differnce between LC, LC/LB & Poly LB inks
Selecting the correct combination of inks based on the cost garment for minimal risk
Primary Variable to control On press
Difference between Sim & 4 color process
Variable to control to avoid dot gain and dot distortion
Moire pattern and how to avoid it
Variables to control color gamut on press
How to avoid and correct color shift
Speed Up Pre-Press
Coating Room
Understanding the technical aspects of emulsion
EOM and its impact
Minimizing RZ value
Discuss variables in coating manual
Humidity and its hidden headaches
Demonstrate Coating Screen with Fully Automatic Screen Coater
Use Spyder 2 CTS system to image screen in perfect register
Expose screens using V-Lux glassless LED
Pre-Press Environment
*Controls, features, benefits plus hands-on use
Pre-press
Preferred dot shapes
Frequency and its impact
Exposure calculator and its critical role in high-resolution screen making
Critical Job information to include on Film positives
Mesh selection
Measuring to control variables
Measuring Emulsion over mesh - Use a Positector to measure EOM
Measuring humidity - TQM Aqua check to measure humidity in emulsion stencil
Measuring screen tension—use a tension meter
On-Press
Setup Multi-color jobs using a Pre-Registration system
Adjust On Press settings Sim Process
Difference between Hard and Soft flood
Fine-tune Squeegee and Flood bar, Speed, Angle and pressure for ink viscosity
Pro‘s and Cons of Double Squeegee’s
Smoothing Screen
What is it?
How and when to use it for best results
Set up job with smoothing screen
Set Up Mobile Forge in head iron
Dryers
Electric vs Gas
Setting base Temp and time to TDS
Measuring temp with a donut probe
Mapping Dryer with a donut probe
Day THREE
Let's get creative with Specialty Inks
Specialty ink multi-color, mixed genre print on dark and light garments using a variety of waterbased and plastisol inks, puff, metallics, glow-n-dark and more.
Pre-Press Screens
Create a Photo screen with CTS Spyder 2
Create a Photo screen with Goccopro DTS printer
Pre-Press Ink Management
Using a Formulator Ink Mixer
Modifying viscosity
Understanding Ink Rheology
Types of Fabrics
Cotton, Poly, Poly Blends & Nylon
Printing characteristics
Inks and printing characteristics
On Press
Setup multiple jobs on press using CTS Pre-Registered Screens
Adjusting Squeegee and Flood bar settings for ink and mesh selections
Frames
Static Frames vs Retionsable
Value and benefits of each
Demonstrate ECO Frame panel replacement
We will be printing with both types of frames
Workflow
Staging
Carts
Production loops
Automation
Clean Press is a Profitable Press
Basic Press Maintenance
*Press maintenance from the Owners Manual
Platen Options
Discuss specialty platens and profitability of niche markets
Post Press
Main Variables to minimize fluctuations in quality
Various methods to use a DIP Tank
Benefits of Water Filtration Systems
Automate Post Press
Inpro Tigerclean TC-110 Screen Reclaiming Unit
Overview of benefits of automating pre-press
Demonstration of reclaiming screen
Discuss Auto Developers and their benefits
Additional profit from Packaging
Auto Folder Demonstration
Cost and Benefits
Discuss auto baggers and high-production models
Key Performance Indicators
Why they are important
Closing Q & A
Q & A plus Closing Group discussion
Sponsors
- Exile Technologies
- Korchem
- Matsui
- Nortech Graphics
- PMI Tapes
- ROQ USA
- Saati
- Vastex
Two exits from our location, Thornton Rd in Lithia Springs. Relatively quiet area with restaurants within a few miles.
Click on the hotel name to go to their website.
Cancellation Policy
This workshop is limited to 10 people and many trainings sell out. For this reason, no refunds will be offered once payment is processed. If you are unable to attend, contact anna@kolormatrix.com or call 404-691-0015 to reschedule. Cancellations made within 72 hours of the class will be subject to a $100 re-booking fee, unless proof of a medical emergency is provided.
*While it is very rare, only once in past years. Classes are subject to change. Notification of changes will be sent to the email address noted during registration. Kolormatrix is not responsible for lost deposits or travel fees if class dates change due to unforeseen circumstances.
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