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T-shirt & garment printing made easy.

T-shirt printing made the old fashion way on a traditional six colour silk-screen printing machine.

Branded t-shirts to company promotional T-shirts or garments, we can do it all. We supply only the best quality garments at the best affordable prices.

We can also supply you with un printed garments We have a huge corporate and casual range to pick from.

 

 

 

 

 

Our darkroom is used to pre pair the positives and silk-screens for exposure. We use a yellow light setup as other colour's intend not to work as well.

Emulation is used to cover the silk-screen and left to dry in a drying rack. Once it has dried it is ready to setup the positive on the screen for exposure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exposure is done with a 3000 watt lamp that burns the positive image to the silk-screen.

Exposure times can vary from 6min to 15min depending on the emulation used on the screen.

Over exposure can result in a poor image quality.

 

 

 

 

 

Once exposure are complete the silk-screen is send of to the wash bay to rinse to image out of the silk-screen.

A power washer is used to wash the silk-screens. After the wash the silk-screens are placed in a drying rack awaiting to be used for printing.

Chemicals are used to clean the silk-screen after it has been used.

 

 

 

 

 

The six colour silk-screen printer with a four station loading bed system can produce up to five hundred single colour printed shirts or garments a day

This machine must be setup for each job. Setup cost for this machine is R120.00 per colour. It is a very time consuming process to setup the machine.

 

 

 

 

 

The flash dryer is used to dry paints on the shirt before the next coat or colour can be applied to the shirt of garment

The flash dryer can not be used to cure the paints on the shirts of garments A heat press or drying tunnel are used instead.