[12448] in APO News
Re: APO shirts! Please read if you'll be in the office at all
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Catherine A Olsson)
Mon Nov 30 16:24:33 2009
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:23:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Catherine A Olsson <catherio@MIT.EDU>
To: Elizabeth de Regt <ederegt@MIT.EDU>
cc: apo-news <apo-news@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <c10d61f60911301118lc3d327fu91d7c1b289b16259@mail.gmail.com>
If you do decide to heatset, please leave the foil and cloth with the
shirts so that brothers/pledges/etc. without access to the silkscreening
office can also help. Thanks!
- catherio
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Elizabeth de Regt wrote:
> 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.
> - Show quoted text -
>
