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Step 1: After receiving your order, our artist designs your graphic to your specifications
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Step 2: The artist will fax you an artwork approval sheet for you to approve and sign off.
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Step 3: Upon your approval, the artist outputs film for each color of the design.
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Step 4: Your film makes its way to our screen preparation area where each piece of film is laid on our emulsion-coated screens ready for screen "burning".
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Step 5: The screen is then exposed to high intensity light and is burned. This step is done for every color in the design.
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Step 6: The screen is then washed with a pressure washer to remove emulsion and leave the image as a stencil through which ink will flow through.
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Step 7: Each screen is set aside for drying. Allow approximately 3 hours for drying.
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Step 8: The screen is then checked for pin holes, and is taped off and ready to make its way to the presses.
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Step 9: Each screen is set up on the automatic press. For smaller jobs the set up is done on manual presses.
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Step 10: The printer must now carefully ensure a perfect registration for each screen. This is done manually and requires skill and patience.
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Step 11: The automatic press is then programmed for each unique job.
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Step 12: For dark shirts the white underbase is printed first, then "flashed" to be cured and printed a second time around. The white underbase ensures the colors will be bright and vibrant.
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Step 13: After the white has been printed twice, the color ink is then applied to shirt.
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Step 14: The finished shirt is then pulled off the press to be placed on the dryer.
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Step 15: The shirts now go through the dryer. The level of heat is adjusted to each particular fabric.
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Step 16: After curing, the shirts are stacked and after being counted again, the shirts are folded in dozens and placed in a box, ready for shipping.
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