Session One: Ink (10:00 a.m. Daily)
This session will cover every corner of the ink world, including:

• Curing requirements
• Nylon inks
• Waterbase inks
• Discharge inks
• Use of various whites
• And more

Speakers: Keith Stevens, International Coatings (October 13);
Ray Smith, Wilflex (October 14);
Mike Holmberg, QCM (October 15)

Session Two: Art Prep/Pre Registration (11:00 a.m. Daily)
Everything you need to know about art preparation, from concept to screen, will be discussed here. A sample printing job will be done on an eight color automatic and on an eight color manual press. Each job will utilize an M&R Triloc pre- registration system that will demonstrate the potential setup efficiencies users can gain with their use.

Speaker: Lon Winters, GraphicElephants.com.

Session Three: More Art, As It Relates to Printing (12:00 p.m. Daily)
This is a more in-depth session, involving:

• Computer manipulation of art
• Sizing of images
• Mesh calculations
• Placement of half-tone images at angles on mesh
• Off-contact requirements vs. screen mesh count
• Ink modifications
• Squeegee durometers
• Color sequence
• Color separation
• Art placement for horizontal split fountain printing

Speaker: Lon Winters, GraphicElephants.com

Session Four: Manual Printing (1:00 p.m. Daily)
This session will explore printing with a manual press to achieve results obtained on an automatic press. After printing, the speaker and group will move to a six color Riley Hopkins manual press, to setup and print two separate three color jobs. Special effects printing will also be demonstrated, as well as a three color "split fountain" job.

Speakers: Riley Hopkins, Riley Hopkins Screen Printing Machinery LLC & Marv Guillot, The Print Surgeon

Session Five: Automatic Success (2:00 p.m. Daily)
This session presents the requirements and considerations when purchasing an automatic press for your shop:

• How to plan workflow and location of the press
• How to unload the press out of the truck
• How to move it into place in the shop
• The build-up of the machine
• How to run an eight color job using 23 inch by 31 inch screens
• How the eight screens are loaded, registered using an M&R Triloc pre- registration system, inked and run

Speaker: Dave Zimmer, The M&R Companies

Session Six: Transfer This (3:00 p.m. Daily)
This session will begin with explanations of what a transfer is, how it's printed, how the transfer is placed on a garment and how it's cured in a heat transfer machine. Several techniques will be shown on how to print transfers with a vacuum table from Hix Corporation. Shirts and caps will be decorated on transfer presses, and specialty transfers will be transferred onto various garments.


Speakers: James Ortolani, HIX Corporation and Ted Stahl, GroupeStahl