Screen Printing Basics - How to iron & set screen printed fabric
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Hi, this is Mark Kneeskern, on behalf of Expert Village. And in this clip I'm going to show
you how to iron your shirts after you have screen printed them. For a surface for ironing,
you want a nice hard flat surface that has enough room for you to pile up your shirts
and move them to another area for ironing. You'll want to set up your ironing, by placing
a towell and maybe a tshirt nice and flat on the surface, and make sure that there aren't
any wrinkles in your design. Because you could permanently wrinkle that design. You'll want
to use a fairly hot setting for this, like a cotton setting. You don't want to use any
steam because you might damage your design or bleed it out. And so just iron it nicely
and firmly and make sure that it gets really hot, because this is what sets your ink into
the fabric, so that it won't wash out later. You can also write on your shirts with an
indullable ink pen, or fabric pen. And iron that also to set it in. And that is how you
iron your shirt after screen printing.
