Inklusion St John’s opened the doors in 2012 having secured funding for our project from the Ian Karten Charitable Trust. Starting as a printshop in Seaford we have now relocated to our Brighton college campus to be more inclusive of our students’ skills and to be part of the thriving community the city offers.
Through a student led approach, we want to show the equal value in the contributions of the business to create better acceptance and inclusiveness for those living with disabilities.
As we grow, we aim to offer a wider variety of products in turn opening more opportunities of work for our students. All profits made will sustain the enterprise and the wider charity.
In this article you can see the instructions students follow to print their designs onto Tote bags.
Using the Ricoh Ri100 DTG A4 Printer to print full colour onto T-shirts and Tote Bags.
1. E-mail your design to the print shop e-mail address. Download to your learner folder and right clicking choose to open the image with Photoshop.
2.Centre and clean any ink smudges where needed.
3. Find the middle of the bag and place on the tray. Put on the tray lining up on the centre line and make sure the opening of the Bag or Neck of the T-Shirt are on the relevant “R” Indicators depending on Portrait or Landscape design.
4.Tuck in the excess to make sure that it doesn’t get caught in the machine whist printing.
5. Close the top half of the tray.
6. Preheat the oven beneath the printer to 170 degrees by holding in the power button and then pressing the Preheat button.
7. Open the oven door and gently push the loaded tray into the oven. Push the bottom lever to the left to press the Bag/T-Shirt to give us a smooth surface to print on.
8.Take the pressed Bag/T-Shirt out of the oven and push it gently into the printer until it clicks into place. Handle the now hot tray by the green heat resistant tabs.
9. Send the artwork from Photoshop on the computer to the printer using the setting Ricoh Ri100 and A4.
10. When the printer is ready the Start Button will flash while processing and show steady when ready to begin printing. The LED will change to say “Press key to start.”
11. The printer will maneuver the tray and start printing. Sometimes it will ask for a height adjustment before proceeding. Press the down arrow on the Height Button 6 or 7 times and repeat by pressing the Start Button until the printer accepts the tray and pulls it into the printer to line up with the printheads.
12. After printing, the tray will offer itself to be removed and placed back in the oven for fixing. Do this by sliding the bottom handle to the right wait for the countdown to finish, bring the lever to the middle and then to the right again to start another 1 minute 30 seconds countdown which will “fix” the ink and enable washing without losing the design.
13. Remove the tray from the oven safely, handling the tray by the green tabs. Place the tray gently onto the table and pinch together the two grey buttons on the front. This will release the tray and allow the Bag/T-Shirt to be removed.
14. Show off your fabulous product and Pose for a photograph. :)
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