Drying Printed Fabric: Screen Printing Basics

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Hello, this is Mark Kneeskern, on behalf of Expert Village. And in this clip I'm going to show you how to air dry your shirt after screen printing. Once you have swiped your ink across and screen printed your shirt, you'll want to carefully remove the screen from your shirt, from one side to the other. Be careful because this ink is wet. And you don't want the shirt folding over onto itself, because then you'll get ink everywhere and it'll mess up your design. While the ink is still wet, you might want to sprinkle some glitter on there, if you want some sparkleage or bling on it. And then carefully place your shirt somewhere, like over the back of a chair. You can hang it from a line, or you can put it anywhere as long as you don't get the ink on anything or place navy shirts on top of that. You need to dry them probably for about one to two hours, and just test it with your finger when you think its about dry. Just gently touch it. And if the ink comes off on your finger, or if it feels tacky, then it's not ready yet. And that is how you air dry a shirt after screen printing.

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