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APO shirts! Please read if you'll be in the office at all
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elizabeth de Regt)
Mon Nov 30 14:18:32 2009
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:18:21 -0500
From: Elizabeth de Regt <ederegt@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-news <apo-news@mit.edu>
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There are a couple boxes under the ironing board in the office. One is
labeled unset, the other is labeled set. All the shirts we printed are
currently not heatset (and therefore are in the unset box). Whenever you're
in the office with a spare moment (or make a moment to help), please heatset
a few and put them in the "set" box. If you dono't know how or need a
refresher, directions are pasted at the end of this email.
Also, if you want to buy one, take one out of the heat set box (we have a
large variety of sizes and three different colors) and put $5 in the drop
safe with a note saying that it was for the APO silkscreened shirts. Yay!
Liz
. Bring in the foil-covered pieces of cardboard from the silkscreening
office. Their purpose is to reflect the heat from the iron so it's more
effective, but they're probably not strictly necessary.
. Find a thin piece of cloth to shield the iron from the design. A towel
will probably be too bulky. I tend to use the front or back half of a
cut-up blank XXL (or otherwise undesirable) t-shirt. There should be
some in the silkscreening office.
. Set up the small and/or large ironing boards in the APO office. They
tend to live by the window directly across from the door.
. Pick an iron, plug it in, and set it to a high setting such as "linen".
Make sure not to use steam. If you are using synthetic shirts, you will
need to use a lower setting. The rule of thumb is to use the highest
setting you can without burning the shirts, which is probably higher
than the dial indicates for your material.
. Iron the shirts for 60 seconds (more if it's a very large design) on the
inside of the shirt over the design. Then do it again on the outside of
the design, using the cloth to shield the design so the iron doesn't
drag ink onto unprinted areas. This should be a total of two minutes.
. Check the design for proper heatsetting by gently tugging on a very
small area of the design with your fingers. Compare it with an
un-heatset shirt. The heatset design should be springy and resilient,
and should hold together well, whereas the un-heatset design will
probably crack as the fibers of the shirt pull apart. If the heatset
design is cracking under a gentle tug, you should probably heatset it
for longer and try again, but it's possible that the particular ink you
used just doesn't have that particular behavior.
. One of our irons tends to turn itself off for no reason in the middle of
heatsetting, so check periodically that your iron is still on and warm.
. Don't forget to turn off the iron and put the ironing boards away
when you're done.
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There are a couple boxes under the ironing board in the office. One is labe=
led unset, the other is labeled set. All the shirts we printed are currentl=
y not heatset (and therefore are in the unset box). Whenever you're in =
the office with a spare moment (or make a moment to help), please heatset a=
few and put them in the "set" box. If you dono't know how or=
need a refresher, directions are pasted at the end of this email.<br>
<br>Also, if you want to buy one, take one out of the heat set box (we have=
a large variety of sizes and three different colors) and put $5 in the dro=
p safe with a note saying that it was for the APO silkscreened shirts. Yay!=
<br>
<br>Liz<br><br>. Bring in the foil-covered pieces of cardboard from the sil=
kscreening<br>
office. Their purpose is to reflect the heat from the iron so it's more=
<br>
effective, but they're probably not strictly necessary.<br>
. Find a thin piece of cloth to shield the iron from the design. A towel<br=
>
will probably be too bulky. I tend to use the front or back half of a<br>
cut-up blank XXL (or otherwise undesirable) t-shirt. There should be<br>
some in the silkscreening office.<br>
. Set up the small and/or large ironing boards in the APO office. They<br>
tend to live by the window directly across from the door.<br>
. Pick an iron, plug it in, and set it to a high setting such as "line=
n".<br>
Make sure not to use steam. If you are using synthetic shirts, you will<br>
need to use a lower setting. The rule of thumb is to use the highest<br>
setting you can without burning the shirts, which is probably higher<br>
than the dial indicates for your material.<br>
. Iron the shirts for 60 seconds (more if it's a very large design) on =
the<br>
inside of the shirt over the design. Then do it again on the outside of<br>
the design, using the cloth to shield the design so the iron doesn't<br=
>
drag ink onto unprinted areas. This should be a total of two minutes.<br>
. Check the design for proper heatsetting by gently tugging on a very<br>
small area of the design with your fingers. Compare it with an<br>
un-heatset shirt. The heatset design should be springy and resilient,<br>
and should hold together well, whereas the un-heatset design will<br>
probably crack as the fibers of the shirt pull apart. If the heatset<br>
design is cracking under a gentle tug, you should probably heatset it<br>
for longer and try again, but it's possible that the particular ink you=
<br>
used just doesn't have that particular behavior.<br>
. One of our irons tends to turn itself off for no reason in the middle of<=
br>
heatsetting, so check periodically that your iron is still on and warm.<br>
. Don't forget to turn off the iron and put the ironing boards away<br>
when you're done.<div><span id=3D"q_12542cb2e2865fa6_1" class=3D"h4">- =
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