Silk Conspiracy
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t-shirts:
you need to wash most store bought t-shirts before you can print them... they have a starchy stuff called 'sizing' that's in the fabric and wil wash out on the first wash... potentially taking some of your ink with it!
I think you can order shirts in bulk without the sizing in them.
remember to clean your screen!
waterbased inks are nice for that sort of thing because you can stick your screen in the bathtub and scrub it out... whereas you need a dedicated washing facility for solvent (can't put solvent down the drain you know!)removing emulsion requires some solvent though... you need to soak the screen to loosen up the developed stuff... it's almost worthwhile just to buy a new screen though... that way you'll always have that screen incase you want to reproduce the design.
you need heavy duty opaque inks for dark shits. or you can usethinner inks over top of an opaque white backdrop (as a lot of companies do when they need to get fine detail onto dark shirts).
that's about it... any questions?