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Here are a few quick tips to help you get awesome results on your totes:
🖼️ Burn your screen right. Look straight down into your screen. Your artwork should face the right direction and read clearly.

📐 Pick the proper platen. An 8 or 10-inch platen fits most standard tote bags perfectly.

🎨 Prep and print. Apply water-based pallet adhesive to your platen, load your bag, and start printing. Water-based ink gives your art a clean, soft-hand feel. If your tote material is thick, go ahead and do an extra print pass or two for solid coverage.

🔥 Cure before you flip. Always make sure side one is fully cured before you turn the bag over to print side two.

🚀 Mix in Warp Drive. If you are worried about getting a complete cure with water-based inks, add Warp Drive to your ink. It takes care of the cure for you over the next 48 hours.

Now you have a practical, custom gift ready!

Check out the full walkthrough using Separation Studio NXT & AccuRIP Emerald Pro Bundle: https://www.screenprinting.com/s/fb_sep-studio-accurip-walkthrough

Watch how Separation Studio NXT lets you take complex full color artwork, merge color channels down to fit a standard 6 color press, map exact Wilflex Rio inks, and send clean separations straight to AccuRIP Emerald.

Less time tweaking channels in Photoshop. More time printing high quality jobs on press.

Check out the bundle: https://www.screenprinting.com/s/fb_sep-studio-nxt-accurip-emerald

Are your prints passing the two second touch test?

Full shop breakdown on printing for streetwear featuring Bancsta
https://www.screenprinting.com/blogs/news/screen-printing-inks-and-press-setups-for-high-end-streetwear

In about two seconds, a customer decides if your print feels like a $100 fashion piece or a $10 promotional giveaway.

Bad prints lose repeat business because they feel rough, sit heavy on the chest, and crack in the dryer after two washes.

If your ink deposit is thick because you slammed ink through a low mesh screen without dialing in your off-contact and squeegee angle, you are killing the brand promise.
Premium apparel demands engineered ink deposits, proper underbasing, and clean shear on press. When the hand-feel matches the price tag, customers come back for every drop.

Come hang out at Ryonet HQ:
FREE! Wednesday, August 12: Future of Printing Expert Panels

FREE! Thursday, August 13: Open House
Live Printing, Rummage Sale, BBQ, Music, and More!

$99 BUCKS! Friday, August 14: Specialty Hands-On Class
Add a new specialty effect to your print arsenal! Print side-by-side with pros John Magee, Kevin Kauth, Zach Acorn, and the Ryonet team in a hands-on workshop focused on darkroom prep and HD Gel Clear specialty effects.

Grab Your Spots: https://www.screenprinting.com/s/ryonet-open-house-2026

A massive thank you to our sponsors for keeping Wednesday and Thursday completely free:
Allmade Apparel, Avient Corporation, Achitex Minerva, Advertising Specialty Institute, Albatross, Bella+Canvas, Nortech Graphics, Franmar, PMI Tape, Pacific Metal Company, PrintGRIP, and Freehand Graphics.

Watch the full showroom tour video: https://www.screenprinting.com/blogs/news/specialty-ink-screen-printing-selling-unique-apparel

Want to offer your customers something truly unique? Check out these interactive prints from Pacific Sportswear This design combines UV color-changing ink with a powerful glow-in-the-dark effect.

Pair them with a solid glow layer, your customers get up to a four-hour glow charge just from stepping out of the sun.
Sample also shows the maximum standard print size you can run on your press without upgrading to an oversized setup.

Showing your customers physical samples like this completely changes the sales conversation.

Reserve your spot and grab your free tickets: https://www.screenprinting.com/s/ryonet-open-house-2026
Sign-up for the Specialty Class:
https://www.screenprinting.com/s/8-14-specialty-class
Chris is definitely taller in real life!
We pulled this quick retro Ramones-style design with an old photo of the band on an Allmade tee, and it turned out great.
Ready to rock!
Speaking of which, the band is playing a live acoustic set at the Ryonet Open House on Thursday, August 13.

Come hang out at Ryonet HQ:
FREE! Wednesday, August 12: Future of Printing Expert Panels

FREE! Thursday, August 13: Open House
Live Printing, Rummage Sale, BBQ, Music, and More!

$99 BUCKS! Friday, August 14: Specialty Hands-On Class
Add a new specialty effect to your print arsenal!

The retro band print setup on press:
Underbase: Flashed a 230 mesh screen to lay down a solid foundation.

Top Colors: Printed wet-on-wet using 280 mesh screens, running two passes for each color.

Separation Tip: Plugged the Rio color set straight into Separation Studio to print right out of the bucket. We added a touch of Fashion Soft to the yellow ink to soften it up and keep the face tones blending smoothly.

The Finish: Capped it off with a crisp highlight white to make the whole print pop.

👉 See the full video: https://www.screenprinting.com/blogs/news/screen-printing-inks-and-press-setups-for-high-end-streetwear

Artwork is the headline, but the print ex*****on is the microphone.

When a brand hands you an illustration, they are giving you their story. Your job on press is translating that voice onto fabric.

A clean, minimalist brand getting a thick, crunchy, bulletproof ink deposit feels completely wrong in hand. A loud, boisterous brand getting a thin, weak print misses the mark entirely.

Ink selection, screen mesh, squeegee angle, & film deposit are how you dial in the physical presence of a design. Match yours to the impact the brand wants to make.

👉 https://www.screenprinting.com/blogs/news/water-based-screen-printing-made-easy-with-the-rudy-press
Traditional manual printing forces you to flood forward, lift your squeegee, pull it back, and then print.

With the Rudy Press, you simply flood up and print back. It streamlines your motion so you save energy and keep your momentum going across the whole run.

If you need to step away from the press, just flood your screen, half-engage the Rudy, and push it back to the home position.