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Step 10Sqeegee the ink onto the shirt
Put some paper inside the shirt. Neat paper is good, make sure the surface below the printed area is nice and flat. Today was sunday paper day, so there was plenty around. Put a couple of sections in between the front and back of the shirt to add some tension to the screen and protect the back from the ink.
Position the squeegee above the ink and the image. It is very helpful to have a second set of hands at this point to hold the frame. You can use a printing frame with fancy hinged clamps, but that might not be available. With some pressure on the frame, push the ink over the image with the squeegee. The ink will be pushed through the holes in the screen where the parts of the image have been removed. Go back and forth a few times. If you have sides that are not completely blocked off, be careful, because you could print out the side.
Pull the frame up carefully and the shirt should stay in place. Hopefully you have a nice clean print. If you don't, you can try to reposition the screen over the image and try again, but it probably won't register properly. It might be easier to use misprints as test cases later.
Set the printed shirt off to a side to dry. It should be dry in a few hours by itself. You can speed up the drying process with a hair dryer, iron or something like that. Sometimes incandescent light bulbs have worked well. For the ink to really adhere to the shirt, you should heatset it with an iron a drymount press or run it through the clothes dryer. If you don't heat set it, it will make a mess in the clothes washer.
Position the squeegee above the ink and the image. It is very helpful to have a second set of hands at this point to hold the frame. You can use a printing frame with fancy hinged clamps, but that might not be available. With some pressure on the frame, push the ink over the image with the squeegee. The ink will be pushed through the holes in the screen where the parts of the image have been removed. Go back and forth a few times. If you have sides that are not completely blocked off, be careful, because you could print out the side.
Pull the frame up carefully and the shirt should stay in place. Hopefully you have a nice clean print. If you don't, you can try to reposition the screen over the image and try again, but it probably won't register properly. It might be easier to use misprints as test cases later.
Set the printed shirt off to a side to dry. It should be dry in a few hours by itself. You can speed up the drying process with a hair dryer, iron or something like that. Sometimes incandescent light bulbs have worked well. For the ink to really adhere to the shirt, you should heatset it with an iron a drymount press or run it through the clothes dryer. If you don't heat set it, it will make a mess in the clothes washer.
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