Icarus Ink finally Inking

Last Thursday, Icarus Ink printed the very first official run of T-shirts for KHP.. Everything went awesome, I set up the screen in the single press that we have. I had 30 green shirts and 6 black ones.. I started out by printing black on green, but I also had white and yellow ink. So we did every different ink on the green shirts, and white on the black shirts..

We had a good little assembly line going. Because we don't have a dryer yet, we were curing the ink in the oven. That is a very tricky process that I don't recommend, if you are getting started doing this, invest in the dryer ha ha! So I was set up in front of the press putting the ink onto the shirts. I would pull them off and set them off to the side. My girlfriend Jamie would take the uncured shirts to Jake who was curing the shirts in the oven, and then she would bring back the finished shirts, fold them and put them in piles of size and color. It was a really fun time of actually trying to figure out the best way to do some of these things. The white ink turned out to be rather tricky, but after screwing up a few shirts, I finally got down the technique.

The next night we had a show at Kamikazis in Ogden, so we set up our booth and ended up selling 9 shirts! They were actually really well recieved and people were pretty surprised that we had printed them ourselves.

If you would like to buy your own KHP shirt, you can buy them on the band website or you can always pick them up at one of our next shows. Also, if you are interested in having some shirts printed, you can email Icarus Ink at icarusinkutah@gmail.com