There may be lots of ways to grab the shirt Shit Happens Shirt . But there’s really only one surefire fast way to load it on the platen: the rocking motion. To do this, you pick up the shirt from the bottom, making the fabric tight between your hands. Then you rock the shirt forward onto the platen and drop it with the collar snugly up against the top of the platen. As you rock your body back, let your hands slide back with you and grab the shoulder seams to pull back and center your shirt. Using the shoulder seams is the only way to tell a true center. You want the space between the shoulder seams on both sides to be equal. If it’s not, then it’s not centered. Master this and you’ll be rocking shirts on and off effortlessly with perfect alignment in no time.

Shit Happens Shirt, hoodie, sweater, longsleeve and ladies t-shirt

Adding adhesive to the platen is crucial for keeping garments from slipping around when you are screen printing Shit Happens Shirt . However, there’s a distinction between too much and not enough pallet adhesive. If you’re spraying new adhesive every single time you reload a shirt, that’s too much and you’re going to have an incredibly difficult time loading and adjusting your shirts properly. We suggest ditching the spray adhesives and going with a water based pallet adhesive, like Green Galaxy™ Water Based Adhesive. These kinds of adhesive allow you to apply it once at the beginning of your print run and get just the right amount of adhesive, lasting long past just one run of shirts. Enough adhesive will prevent the shirts from moving when you smooth them down with your hands after alignment. Too much adhesive will stick your shirt down without pressure and make it unmovable for the rocking adjustment.Screen printers who have loaded their 10,000+ shirts will tell you it’s easy, but anyone who remembers standing in front of a press for the first time trying to get the shirt to lay flat and centered on the platen knows that this is hard. Luckily, it just takes practice. Try these tips and next time you’ll be on your way to loading a shirt like a pro.