Printing Upgrade. Now its getting serious!

We finally got our flash dryer for curing the T-shirts. Now our printing is a lot more efficient. The time it takes to print a shirt is now about the same amount of time to cure one so the production just sped up to double what it was before! It is exciting to watch this all come together.

Just recently I ordered a bunch of new blank shirts and finished the new KHP design. I was in a big pinch for time because I really wanted to get some shirts printed with the new design in time to sell at the show tomorrow night so on tuesday night after I finished a tattoo, I started making the screen. Making the screen is the most time consuming part of screenprinting and I really wanted to get that out of the way so that it would be easier to find the time to do the actual printing. I ended up being at my brothers house until about midnight trying to get it finished.

Last night I originally had a tattoo appointment, but they had cancelled. I was really glad that they did because it gave me a whole night to run a print. When I got to my brothers house, I had a few things left to do to finish setting up the screen and then I had to get it mounted in the press so that it would print exactly where I wanted it to on the shirt.

Once again we set up a little assembly line of printing, curing and folding the shirts... We are really getting a system down and really having a lot of fun doing it. My brother Jake, who is my partner in Icarus Ink, gave his first shot at making a screen for his group "Drunken Masters". It went over really well. Everything came together as it was supposed to, but unfortunately the design wasn't quite good enough to make a good screen so we made some adjustments, reprinted the design, and he will be making a new screen for it today.

So, if that all goes well, we will have a bunch of shirts to sell at the show tomorrow night. We will have all of the green KHP Ghoul shirts from the last print, all of the new KHP Grenade head shirts, and Drunken Masters will be selling their first shirts.

I also gave my first shot at printing on a zip up hoodie.. Now that is a whole different ball game, I completely screwed it up, but I now know what to do and what not to do so hopefully the next time I try that, they will turn out good.