The Print Stroke:
A. Place a bead of ink across the edge of the design.
B. select a square edged medium hardness squeegee (70 durometer).
C. Hold the squeegee firmly with two hands spreading your fingers evenly across the handle.
D. Place the squeegee blade at the rear of the image with the front edge of the blade at a slight forward angle to screen. The handle of the squeegee should be pointing at you with the blade pointing toward the back of the screen.
E. Press the squeegee down evenly and pull forward. A clean print means that there is no ink residue remaining in the image area of the screen. You can pull the squeegee as many times as necessary to achieve this.
F. Lift up the screen with one hand and, with the other, push the remaining ink across the image to the rear of the screen. This is referred to as flooding the screen. The purpose of flooding the screen is to prime it and to put the left over ink back into the proper position for printing the next shirt.
Tip: By adjusting the angle of the squeegee you will affect the deposit of the ink. If you require more ink try a stronger angle, for less ink a more vertical position will help
You may find pushing the squeegee is more comfortable printing stroke. Keep the angle of the squeegee the same only flood toward you and print back. However, once you choose a stoke style you need to keep it for the entire job to minimize the possibilty of shadowing the print.
Note: Most designs need to be printed using the following guidelines:
- Print light colors first with dark overlapping them
- Print smallest part of the design first
- Printing specialty inks, such as metallic and puff, last