Glad to help out. We don't gatekeep anything around here 🤘🏻

Cool to hear man, thank you 👊🏻

That's so good to hear! I'm happy this stuff helps, that's what it's all about. Keep it up!

Once you understand the calculator and have a bit of a feel for your exposure setup, it gets a lot easier to where you nail stuff in 2-3 tries no problem like I did. The math on there is a good starting point but it's not always exact

No screen printer should be without one 🙌🏻

Good work man. The testers are one of the most valuable tools you can have as a printer

Happy to hear that 🙌🏻

Thanks a lot 🤘🏻

Glad to help!

Glad to help 🤘🏻

Glad to hear it helped 👊🏻

I like it a lot so far, except for halftones I still get better results with a dual cure. Thanks man 🤘🏻

Eventually there will be. I just got a new place we'll be moving to soon and it's going to have a 110 track

Thanks a lot. I plan on doing a whole how to print for beginners series that will cover everything, just need to make time for it

@@leestuart38 Oh my word...you just made my day!

@@heatherjennings145 love how he answered everyone

@@jodypratt2365 Right?! He's really awesome. I tell my wife that he is my "screenprinting boyfriend" :)

It's great stuff so far

Best tool for every printer to have!

Try one of these and I'll bet your times are off. Those free ones are no good

Actually, the downloadable ones are perfect. All the Stouffer ones tell you is how long it takes to fully expose the emulsion, but if your positives are less than totally opaque (which is probably the case for most folks watching this video), then by the time you’ve exposed to #7, you’ve partially burnt through your positive, and lost fine detail. When you print out an exposure calculator on the same gear that you print your films on, the “burn through” factor is baked in. Get a good stencil with a downloaded calculator, and you’re good to go.

Fat boy sizes.....lol

Thanks for the support man 🤘🏻

Thanks a lot 🤘🏻

Thanks! Glad to help

Screen printing uses screens to layer an image down onto the shirt, while DTG is spraying dots of ink down like a regular printer would be. Screen printing is a lot faster and better quality, while DTG is going to be better in production for things that require a lot of color in small batches

Thank you 🔥

Thanks a lot

Thanks!

I haven't had a ton of time to put into it yet, I've been extremely busy with print work. I'll be able to soon though

They will last forever if you take care of them

I had a plumber add a water hookup near my booth, you can see it in one of my shop build videos

Definitely helps to have one of these 🙌🏻

@@leestuart38 epic 😍❤️👌

Yes. It'll last for years

I use cryocoat quite a bit, it's definitely not suited well to our exposure units. It's too sensitive for a multi source light so light wrap is inevitable. For anything with fine detail or halftones, a dual cure emulsion is still best

I don't use a second dip tank, I don't have the space for it. But that's the ideal setup

I'm on the baselayr stuff now

I don't really use them, not a big fan

Lee Stuart aaah oke got it

No, it's not the same thing

Screens aren't cheap, you're looking at $30-40 a piece for aluminum static frames no matter where you buy them from

As long as nothing solid black is blocking the UV from hitting the strip against the emulsion, it doesn't really matter where it goes

Forever, or until you lose it

I’m wondering the same thing

Sounds like your emulsion has gone bad. 35 minutes would expose pretty much anything to the point that it would be impossible to wash out. Dual cure emulsion has a 6 week shelf life once mixed

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Start with plastisol, it's a lot easier to work with so you can focus on the fundamentals

Just a cheap little bosch unit from amazon, nothing special

I use baselayr emulsions now

It's a plastisol only emulsion, it says it can handle some waterbased inks but I don't have a lot of trust in that. Otherwise I like it a lot, I don't do much waterbased stuff here

Normally I take those estimated times and cut them in half. But the strip doesn't lie, if it's saying you're over/under you probably are

Lee Stuart so most likely I’m not over blowing it out with water ?

You should be able to hit it with a pressure washer from medium/close range without it blowing out

Did you read the requirement for cryocoat? Did you meet those requirements? My light source didn't. So I can't use cryocoat

I use cryocoat a lot, and it's got its issues with certain exposure setups or art types. If I'm doing anything with fine detail, I can't use it

I pinned it to the top so hopefully it stops some of that haha, exactly why I made this video. But those strips are identical, just a different name on them

Lee Stuart 🙏🏽

Hell ya 🤘🏻

Rite film 👌🏻

I wouldn't count on it

@@leestuart38 I'll be on my way then

Maybe pay closer attention. I covered it more than once in detail

@@leestuart38 You did cover it. But you barely showed it "after" the actual exposure, split second maybe, when we see how the 7-steps of the exposure tool actually works. I like the video. That's all.

Glad it helped 🤘🏻

Amazon price gougers with the supply and demand. Try screenprinting.com instead, they have them

It only takes a few tries to dial it in. Once you have your settings and technique right it's fast and easy

It's nowhere near the level of screen printing yet. The print quality, production time and versatility of screen printing are still miles ahead. Sure if you want to make 1-5 shirts with a ton of colors then a DTG would be the obvious smart choice, but anything past that and screen printing is still king. The technology is catching up but I think it's still a good 5-10 years away from competing directly

@@leestuart38 yeah i feel you. the colors are not as vivid as silk screening and dtg ink prints crack most of the time vs silk screening. i just sold my f2100 because of the inconsistencies of pretreating and not holding up well in washes was just a pain in the ass and only being able to print ringspun shirts and fibrillation and only doing 8 to 12 dark color shirts an hour was crazy. i was going a bit crazy about that and most ppl would order 1 color jobs or 3 and i was like man ima just sell this and try silk screening again. i think my initial problem when i tried screen printing was that the white ink kept getting clogged in the screens but i figured out after that the guy who sold me the press and ink did not tell me that i had to use a thinner to make my white ink thinner because it was too thick so that situation made me think twice about screen printing but i am going to give it another try. That and i have also been looking into buying one of those DTF 24" printers with the powder machines. it seems legit but i would have to get some samples first. i also found a vg 540i for like 10k but i am not sure if i would make good profit on that or what i could offer buying one of those.

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Compared to the hours and hours of wasted time and all the wasted materials trying to dial exposure times without it, yes it is very cheap. If $25 is expensive you might be in the wrong business because it gets a lot worse