Intermediate T-Shirt Printing Course

A four week evening course or 2 day weekend course perfect for anyone who’d like to gain in-depth commercial knowledge of the t-shirt screen printing process.

Courses starting on Tuesdays will run from 6:30pm-9.30pm on four consecutive Tuesday evenings whilst courses starting on Saturdays will run from 10am-4pm on both the Saturday and Sunday with a 1 hour break for lunch. The available dates in the calendar signify the first day of the course.

Our experienced tutors will cover the following to achieve a 2-3 colour T-shirt printed to a commercial standard:

Week 1

We’ll start with the artworking including design development and artwork creation techniques, colour separation and film printing.

Week 2

Screen preparation including coating and exposing will be covered in the first part of the session. We’ll then tackle registration for multiple colour designs and ink mixing with a focus on Pantone matching and the difference between Plastisol and water based Ink Systems.

Week 3

This is a full on printing day and each student will have the opportunity to print an at least 10 t-shirts. We will supply white and black cotton t-shirts but students are welcome to bring their own garments..

Week 4

This will be your chance to finish any printing which wasn’t completed in week 3 and experiment with speciality inks and processes such as foiling, puff, metallics or discharge.

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Things to Bring:

• A laptop with Adobe Photoshop (there is a free trial on offer with Adobe so please install this before week 1(evenings) and day 1 (weekends). Having a working knowledge of photoshop is essential.
• A 2-3 Colour Design which we can break down into a colour separation (Max Size Artwork (300 dpi) Saved as PSD/PDF File.
• You can also bring in drawings or images to scan if you prefer and we can advise on the next step.
• If you would like to bring your own T-shirts other than the ones provided please do.
• Change of clothes you don’t mind getting inky!

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To book please scroll through the calendar and click the available date (highlighted in green) that you’d like to attend. All materials are provided. Terms and conditions apply.