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Advanced Screen Printing - 3 day Workshop

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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

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.

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 & 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.

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Hilton Garden Inn

Home 2 Suites

Courtyard by Marriott

Holiday Inn Express

My Place Hotel by Hilton

Fairfield Inn by Marriott

TRU by Hilton

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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