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That 1st explosion sound made me jump 😂

Cool video! 🙌

Maybe use lo-fi as your friend instead of your enemy, it might be good cutting Five Nights at Freddy’s fan music on

The amount of ai bs "artwork" that comes to us is becoming annoying for sure. Its mostly people that want tshirts for their sidehustle businesses but sometimes its contractors and i have to stop them .. buddy you got 23 colors in your barely legible go. What is this? Oh ya got 3 a-frame roofs up top ? Great so do 37 other contractors in your NEIGHBORHOOD ! We try and help and educate everyone but sometimes they just want what they want. Its frustrating for sure.

Nice video. I'm slowly creeping back into screen printing garments and I appreciate your videos.

I am in agreement with you on this. AI art is a big threat to ALL artists. The company I work for pretty much has a "No AI Art policy" which makes me feel grateful...but I think they're just waiting to see how this all plays out in court. The only upside I can see with the AI art is that if you are an artist you can use it to help generate some ideas...but I don't think you should ever have AI art as your final piece.

Engagement! I have a Hopkins 150 and already dream of upgrading one day but I need find more reasons to print before that happens.

I currently use a Riley Hopkins 250 4x4 press. it was a good entry level press. I bought the kit which came with ink, chemicals, flash, exposure and a few other items. I don't know if it is the best there is but at the time it was what I could afford to get. I still use it for now.

the side clamps are awesome for sure

I had a RH 4/1 for a few years and when it came time to up grade I went with the Anatol Lightning 6/6 (Sadly it looks like the Lightning is no longer available). I went with the base color. I have zero complaints with the Anatol, it hold registration extremely well and having the side clamps, aluminum platens and laser all standard is awesome! I've printed a few thousand shirts on it and it still works like new. If you're looking into Anatol go through their sight and work with an Anatol rep! They have been great to work with an usually inform me if there is a sale or deals because they know I am in the process of upgrading other equipment. I recently purchased an Anatol Solutions dryer which sped up my production. #teamanatol

😂amazing video 📹

😂 yes, amazing 👏🏿 it's been a while, but I've been watching your videos 5 now to catch up 🎉🎉🎉

Been wondering your overall thoughts. Looks like a fantastic press! I have the RH 4/1....sure wish I had gone 4/2 but oh well. I would say, while I like printing on my RH, I agree with you, there are some quirks. I still feel like one arm is crooked, even though they sent me a new one. It must be on the base of the unit. And the XY reg just doesn't quite feel like it's enough. Takes a long time to register. Still consider myself a newbie or sorts. Another great video Josh!

Maybe I have a contreversal take, but I don't believe you are entitled to a job because you have worked hard at attaining a skil and it's currently your living. The example that everyone will be familiar with is all the stableworkers when the car transformed with transportation industry (I've just noticed there is a similair comment below). But I would expand upon this and say that it is not the markets responsability to keep people's jobs alive, it is the individuals responsibility to acquire marketable skills. Human created art will never stop being valuable and in demand. I could print off copy of the Mona Lisa now and it will be worth almost nothing. But when a business needs to create a piece of marketing material, would it not be easier to employ one artist for the final touch ups and someone who fills in AI prompts, than multiple skilled artists who will take much longer, and cost much more, to produce a comparible end result. Even if a business did keep staff on, and show that they're being supporting artists, they just won't replace those memebers of staff. Or simply put so little work on their desk that they can justify redunancy. Lawyers will likely go the same way. Competiting AIs with knowledge of the entire legal system with be fed the details of the case and spit out a report of their defense/presecution, with likely 1 lawyer to skim over the details and present it in court. Call centres as well, with how well ChatCPT 4o is able to talk they will likely end up replacing 90% of the call centres, with just a few people left if the automated system couldn't resolve the issue. This would be amazing for the consumer as costs for the service and wait times would be basically none existent. It might be a hard pill to swallow, knowing something you've trained for and love is becoming less and less in demand, but okay. What will complaining about it change? The only way to stop it will be pass laws that X% of media created by businesses must be proved to come from humans, which is just anti-progress in my opinion. Those are my thoughts, I'd be interested to read yours.

Why can't AI take over the boring office jobs instead of art

Software engineer here. I work in a different field of machine learning, Expert Systems. Expert systems (ES) work on an entirely different principle than the deep learning (DL). But I the basics of both have been around since the 1960s. ES is not pop-culture popular today, but it has been around long enough that businesses and government actually does use this form of machine learning to make life-or-death decisions. First things first: Neither Expert Systems or Deep Learning are "AI". They aren't intelligent. They are just tools to automate decision making. They are applications of Machine Learning. Expert Systems start with a subject matter expert and a software engineer who take existing processes and reduce them to machine executable instructions. Deep Learning is the reverse: it self-arranges machine level instructions into things that resemble existing processes. There are trade-offs to both approaches. Expert systems require experts, and expert software engineers, so... you have to deal with some niche personalities. Deep Learning is a numbers game, you just keep filtering through utter crap until you find something promising. Thus why it takes a building full of computers working full time for months to mint a new edition of each system. Back on subject: Deep Learning (like Stable Diffusion, and ChatGPT) are neat little parlor tricks. But they can't invent new art. It can only pirate ideas that exist. I mean, yes, it will "invent" new things. But it produces lovecraftian horror, because AI doesn't understand art. It's mimicking art. That is because it is fitting your prompt to prompts it received during training to a bank of images it was fed into outputs that were also part of its training. LLMs: basically the same idea but with text. Call center workers and spam copy writers are replaceable by LLMs because: 1) Call centers are about minimizing human interaction. Companies WANT it to be jarring and uncomfortable because they want callers to GO AWAY. So bad quality that "seems" to be meeting the minumum requirements is a plus. 2) Spam-grade copytext is only intended to get someone's attention. It is not intended to actually be coherent, or even communicate. Because a computer's time (once trained) is basically free compared to hiring an english speaking writer, that wins. But like with #1: quality is not a factor. In all other applications of AI so far, it fails at non-basic tasks. Not because it can't accomplish them. Because it operates at the level of an 8th grader. You have to monitor EVERYTHING it makes, because as soon as you turn your back, it'll start drawing dick picks and body horror. (Or in the text world, it basically starts rambling until it goes full racist.) @chrisvernon3156 - No it is not the same as humans. Humans actually LEARN. Deep "Learning" is really Deep Mimicking. Reword the problem slightly and it will lose the bubble. Turn the temperature up and it becomes utterly incoherent. Turn the temperature down and it produces robotic sounding answers. But not ACCURATE answers. Just what fits the stochastic solver that worked through feeding the answers to the test back through to the questions. Because that is literally how they work. If you are writing the same text over and over again we have had a tool like that since the 1980s: It's called COPY AND PASTE. For everything else, you still need someone to proof what an AI produced. And the proofreader requires a much higher level of pay/skill than a copywriter/floor artist. And where do you get your editors? FROM THE SHOP FLOOR. If you have no more front line staff, you have nobody who you can promote to an editor, and you have noone who can grade the output of either the humans or the AI. And companies have lost millions, if not billions, dealing with stupid mistakes. The wrong clause in a contract can turn a winning deal into a money losing gambit. Body horror that sneaks into a children's product can destroy a brand. Incorporating a derogatory term for a minority group into a sales slogan can destroy a company's standing in the advertising world. Fabricating data on a government report can lead to jail time. And where do industries that can't tolerate mistakes recruit people? That's right. From the industries that can tolerate mistakes.

Yes, generative AI is trained on past work - but isn't that the same for humans? Someone taught you to speak, read and write? Humans spend years studying past works in school, college, university... Is there really that much difference between a machine 'learning' from the work of prior humans and today's kids learning from the work of prior humans?

Why pay someone even 100 dollars when you can spend 100$ and get midjourney for a year and just go through limitless prints from others and your own? I’m pro artist but it’s dead

AI Art is a genuinely amazing development and it can do generic stuff really well. My belief was, however, that the lack of fine control would rule AI out as a replacement for human creatives. But I may have made a mistake because the ironic truth is that the 'gatekeepers' of quality are not in most cases the clients but the Creatives themselves. It's the Creatives who 'police' the standards of creative work that gets used- which makes sense because if the clients were capable of making fine creative judgements they would not need to hire the Creatives in the first place. The punchline is that once the clients replace the human creatives with AI there will be no one in the loop to maintain any quality control- the clients will be happy with what the AI's deliver, and the AI's themselves have zero real aesthetic judgement. So- by eliminating the skilled humans from the equation there will be no immediate percieved loss- because ironically- the only people who could have told the clients that their AI is producing derivative crap are the very people the AI has replaced! There's a distopian symmetry to this that is almost funny- not only will AI take your job, it will also eliminate the only person qualified to know how well the AI is doing your job! So we end up with a scenario in which AI's churn out vast amounts of deriviative crap but the only people who really notice is all the now unemployed Creatives whose opinions no longer matter because they no longer have a seat at the table. Welcome to the future.

Hey! Here's some engagement. Keep them coming. Ps I would love to see a start to finish job, from computer to press!

I think the invention of AI is like the invention of nuclear technology. It may have a lot of promise for some applications but those are overshadowed by it's potential to end all life on earth. AI isn't just democratizing art, it will do the same for crime and war. Anyone, regardless of intelligence, will be able to leverage it to invent weapons, hack computers, infringe copyright, reverse engineer products, manipulate systems and people, etc. We can't put the genie back in the bottle but this is not a net win for the human race, only fools see it that way.

On losing jobs, I think it is like when cars took over the horse and carriage. We lost the carriage driver's job, and probably a lot of people who tended horses and built carriages. But we created a ton of jobs around building cars. Some of the carriage drivers and builders got jobs building cars. Some didn't. But they went on to something else. It's all in how you look at it. Technology moves forward. You can either go along with it or get left behind. And if a person or company wants to buy AI art, then they never valued your art in the first place. No reason to worry about those customers because they were never good customers in the first place. If you want to create art without AI, then you'll have to narrow your search to customers who are willing to pay for non-AI art. There are still carriage drivers out there. And they make good money. They just had to shift their business direction to meet the market. Edit: I typed the above before the video was finished. AI using other artists as inspiration is just the same as a human artist using other artists they like as inspiration. It would then come down to the degree of how much inspiration was used from one particular artist as to whether it should be cited or not. When I did a lot of artwork, I was definitely using inspiration from other artists I had seen in the past that I liked. That doesn't mean that my art was a copy or an infringement on their art. It just spoke to the fact that I liked their work enough to style mine after theirs.

For the sake of argument, what about creative types who can't draw at all. They have to pay out the booty for there ideas to become real. This gives them cheaper options to achieve the same thing?

Crazy man, I’m going through this situation right now. I feel like I’ll regret selling everything but I feel like that freedom and extra garage space would be well worth it. It’s ok to say “well, I tried”. I hope you keep going, I hope I do too, but I totally feel the pain brother.

*"From scratch!"* _Takes a picture from somewhere._

Here's my comment for your engagement! Thank you for your videos!

I built my screen wrack out of PVC pipe and my wash out booth using a plastic mobile wash tub with plexiglass on three sides, I sprayed the plexi to make it less transparent and put LEDs behind it with amber photo safe led lights to light up my screens as I wash them. I use a cheap 20x24 no lid exposure unit that works great. My filtration system was pretty easy as well. all are still working great.

I'm just too cheap to buy new. I built my exposure unit, washout booth and filtration system, modified my cheap chinese flash with forced air, made squeegees, platens, a mesh stretcher, and a laser alignment unit for the press. I've saved thousands and learned a lot about the process. I've seen so much gear for sale online, people decide they're getting into screen printing, spend a ton on new gear, don't like it/can't do it, and sell it at a huge loss. It's a lot to buy new and then discover it's not for you.

I built on about 100 $ and i got 15 sec exposure time regular glass half tones are good

The content was pretty interesting, but trying to pick your voice out of the sprightly music is too much work for me as a viewer. This is my first video of yours and I don't know if I'll be back.

I built a 5 station screen printing carousel using a 3 point floating registration method where the screens are not connected to the carousel but rather have a bracket clamped onto them for registration, theoretically allowing me to use an unlimited number of screens. It cost me around $1500. It's much more labor intensive, but works great. I've done a 7 color print on it and registration was solid. I don't do much screen printing in my shop though.

I built my exposure unit, I got a 8 bulb T8 light fixture used for growing dope, it's like 2ft by 4ft, and I replaced the bulbs with UV bulbs, built a box to enclose the light fixture, and put a 1/4 sheet of glass on top of it, it works great. I just put black fabric over the screen, put a piece of foam in the well of the screen, put a board on that, and a couple 25lbs weights to push it all down like a vacuum top would, and after doing a bunch of tests, it works every bit as well as an expensive exposure unit. I think I spent $200 bux on it total. My exposure times are like 60-80 seconds, using a presensitized photo emulsion, and I get halftones and very fine detail. I don't think the type of glass is that big of an issue, if you theoretically put a piece of paper over the glass under the film positive, the image still gets exposed, you just have to wait a little longer for your exposure time so the light can penetrate. Going to the degree of ordering special glass is unnecessary, all you need for a good exposure is: dark film positives, positive pressure to press the film into the screen, correct exposure time, and a light source with strong penetration... so anything except incandescent, Cfl light bulbs, or halogen. You gotta experiment with washout methods a little too. The back of the screen doesn't cure as fast as the front of the screen, so it's easier to over saturate. If you try to washout the well side harder than the front side, you'll blow out the emulsion. The correct way to washout for me, is slightly dampen both sides post exposure, wait 30 seconds, hit the front side hard for a few seconds, then hit the well side hard for a shorter time, turn it around and blast the front side till the emulsion is fully washed out (20 seconds?). Then, Immediately wipe down the screen with a paper towel, and take it outside to dry and harden. You have to act fast once you start washing out the emulsion, because it will eventually absorb water and soften if using a presensitized emulsion, and that's when halftones and small details accidentally blow out. But if you're having trouble washing out halftones, it's most likely under exposed, and the well side isn't cured long enough, then when you go to wash out, it rinses off, and you blow out the emulsion. While If the film positive isn't dark enough, halftones won't wash out. A good properly exposed screen can take a hard spraying for 20-30 seconds and not lose halftones.

Good 2 c u.. Agree with u that u should do/build stuff urself if u r just starting as a newbie.

Engaging... basically helping with your bond money. ;-)

Been doing the screenprinting sidehustle for 5 years and finally gathered the courage to quit the day job after doing IT for 20 years, and go “all in” on the side hustle. Looking so much forward to being my own boss at the age of 44 😂

yes, I have also thought of selling my equipment and put it elsewhere in my life, but I too would regret it, as I sold a huge collection of things I love to start this adventure. I constantly create new artwork for shirts and other things. I have not found the perfect outlet yet for my creativity earwig, but hope too soon. in the meantime I create shirts of my own design and sell them at shows. I usually don't make much that way but I do get to spread my business name about that way, I get to meet many creative people and I get a few ideas from it as well.

and i have published comic books years ago, it was awesome then, but not now.

as far as paying on time, I don't even order the blanks until they pay in full.

im there with you, I work a night job and work my screenprinting out of my basement

Learning how to say no is a good step. What I've found is even more helpful is building a network of other people who do the same kind of work so that when you get someone asking if you can work on some project and your answer is no, you can refer them out to someone you know who might need the work.

The best thing I've done was to read "The Pumpkin Plan" by Mike Michalowicz. It discusses this exact problem and helped me realize everything I was doing wrong. And, he's great to listen to with a great sense of humor. Nice to see you on here, and I hope you get through the burnout. I deal with it all the time due to having OCD and ADHD. So I get it.

If I'm always going to double up my printed transfers taped together do I need to use two on the exposure calculator as well?

Is that spiderweb on your head? 😂😂

Any advice when doing it outside?

Would have definitely been better with the inside painted flat black. You don't want the light to reflect at all so it hits the emulsion from a direct angle and not diffused. I was a pre-press 4 color film stripper in the 90's and duped film for a living for 5 years. You want light straight down for your cleanest edges and that's it...

Hey thanks for the info! I was going to use regular glass but, now I know there is a difference between type of glass to use for an exposure box! thanks!

Hello 👋 😊 can i use acrylic clear instead glass? i have new one i don’t want to buy….i think should work…

Hey Josh, do you have a link to that Blockbuster+ pre roll? It'd be cool to have to surprise my parents with something nostalgic.

2 whole minutes intro, very annoying music and not what I was looking for this video has it all when it comes to being horribly done.

Alternatively, would I need a white underbase if I was printing green ink colour on a medium blue t-shirt? I would prefer a black t-shirt but as I'll be using a crude DIY setup, there's no way that I could get perfect registration for a white underbase.