hands-on screen print training at your location, followed by my telephone & video consulting. Your training may include the following:
1. Proper Screen Coating Technique & Drying
2. Hands-on- You will coat your own screens and dry them.
3.How to Find Proper Screen Exposure Times
4.Troubleshooting Over Exposure and Under Exposure Times
5. We will Discuss Mesh Counts – what mesh to use for your print job
6. We will discuss setting up your darkroom.
7. Register your films for exposure on the burn unit using a Registration Board System and then expose your screens.
8. Hands-on – You will burn your own screens
8. Washing Outing The Stencil Demonstration
9. Hands-on – you will wash out your stencils and
letting dry them.
10. Preparing your screen for the press- Post-exposure, Taping, blocking pinholes, etc.
11.Registering & Setting up your print jobs on the
press
12. How to use a Squeegee & squeegee durometers
13. Proper Garment Loading Techniques
14. Learn test Print Techniques –
15. Proper printing techniques
(Flood stroke, Pull and Push Techniques)
16. Flashing your prints – Flash Times & Final cures
using a Flash-only system.
17. How to use a heat gun and temperature gun.
18. Curing Times and the Cure Test.
19.Proper cleanup
20. Reclaiming your screens so you can use them
again!
Other items will be discussed and taught as needed
We hired Latonna to train our team so we could bring our merch printing in-house for our energy shot brand. She came to our location and gave us two full days of hands-on training. We had a pile of screens and did not know where to start, but she took us through reclaiming, coating, exposing, and getting them press-ready. She even taught us how to run three-color jobs so our designs would really pop. Her patience and attention to detail made it easy for our staff to follow along. By the end, we had a system in place to handle our own printing and a clear understanding of how to keep everything running smoothly.
We called Latonna in because we were having major issues with our press and our prints. We had bought a used press from GSG that would not register properly, and no matter what we tried, our white ink was a problem. She came in, diagnosed the issues right away, and showed us exactly how to adjust the press. Then she taught us how to print white ink correctly, including what additives to use and how to get a smooth, opaque print. We had already been through two visits from a distributor who sold us more supplies but never fixed the problem. Latonna’s training was different; it was hands-on, practical, and it actually solved the issues we were having.
Our shop in Houston had been running for years, but things felt slow and unorganized. We brought Latonna in to give us a fresh set of eyes on our process. She immediately found ways to rearrange our workspace for faster setup times and smoother production flow. She showed our staff how to stage jobs more efficiently, keep ink organized, and reduce downtime between prints. On top of that, she coached us on printing techniques that cut down our misprints by half. Her training has saved us both time and money, and our crew still talks about the tips she gave us.
When we opened our new shop in San Antonio, we knew we needed someone to get us up to speed fast. Latonna came out and not only helped us set up our entire screen printing process, but she also trained us in CorelDRAW. She showed us how to prepare graphics properly so they go from computer to press without issues, which was something we had been struggling with. She walked us through burning screens, dialing in our press, and showed us how to troubleshoot common problems. By the end of the training, our team could confidently take a customer’s idea, design it, separate it, and have it printing on shirts the same day.
Latonna came down to our shop twice and completely changed how we operate. We had three different techs out here before her, and not one of them caught that our press was not level. Within minutes, she spotted it, explained the problem, and helped us get it fixed. She walked us through our whole print process step by step, from setup to cleanup, and showed us ways to speed things up without losing quality. What I appreciated most is she was not trying to sell us anything. We had been burned by distributors pushing products we did not need, but she focused 100 percent on training us and helping us get consistent prints. It was worth every penny to have her here in person.