VEVOR Screen Printing Machine 1 Color 1 Station Silk Screen Printing Press

Love it. It checks all the boxes. Only 1 detail i would recommend. Get 3 thread chasers. 6mm×1.0, 8mm×1.25 and 10mm×1.5. All the threaded parts, both painted and not, are poorly threaded, maybe because of the paint, but the bolts will try to cross thread and strip out. A quick pass with the thread chaser, will prevent any headaches with stripped bolts.

I read a lot of the other product reviews before buying this single screen setup. Background, I have a lot of experience as a welder, fabricator, mechanic, and as an artist and used to have a 4 screen rig before it got stolen. This thing is AWESOME. ESPECIALLY for the price. It took me about as long to set it up and calibrate for the screen and shirts as it did to assemble it. I wouldn’t make any design changes. Now….. if you are not mechanically inclined, I would have somebody else put it together. It’s best if you have a cordless drill, cordless impact, and a wrench and socket set. I would definitely not try putting this thing together with the tools supplied. I actually only chased out the smallest holes with my tap and then got lazy and didn’t have any trouble with the threads on the larger holes. There was one manufacturing issue that I was surprised that it passed QC, one of the tubular steel pieces had a split as shown in the photo.

This is worth the money. However, one of the holes was misaligned, but it was so sturdy that missing one screw didn't affect the performance of the press. It did take a while to put together, and the directions are mostly okay. If you are handy and used to assembling things, you should have no issues. I took it out for a test run yesterday, and I was able to adjust everything to line up the screens just fine. I think with this, you just have to futz with it for a bit to get it all lined up, and once you do that, you are golden. Overall, for the cost? It's a nice solid tabletop unit. I was able to lift the screens, and put them back down between ink applications and it didn't wiggle at all, so I got good solid prints. It's decently sized, and for me, I am putting it in my workshop, so that's fine. If you are in a tiny apartment, you will have to figure out where to put it, because it takes some space. Overall solid purchase. Minus one star for the misaligned hole during assembly.

I was worried about all the negative reviews regarding missing parts and difficulty assembling it, but I was surprised and got it all together in about an hour! I wasn't missing any parts, and the instructions were a little bit convoluted but still easy to follow as long as you consult the parts guide on the back. I will say though, you may want to unscrew out the long screws on the part I circled in the picture that I included with my review before you attach them to the springs. These adjust the spring tension. I saw some reviews saying it is difficult to use the press without clamping or bolting it down to a table. Pulling these out will make the tension looser and reduces the amount of recoil you get when pulling the arm back up from the shirt board! Overall I'm very excited to put it to use. I will update my review if I have any problems with it, but so far so good! Edit: Been putting it to use and it works perfectly! I wish I had invested the extra money and gotten the one that can hold four screens, I will have to save up for it now. I wanted to add another tip to my review. Add painters tape to the shirt board edges! I saw some reviews mention how a shirt will catch on the rough edges of the board when sliding it on, this was easily remedied for me with the tape! The tape won't get in the way of anything as long as you put it on evenly and smooth it down flat!

Way more sturdy than we expected..Very Pleased with O=der and Price. Thank You!

Absolutely awful experience putting this piece of work together. Besides the bent peices of metal, the instructions are some of the worst I have ever seen. On top of that not a single screw just threads into the holes they areeant for because they are all caked with the paint or powder coating

Wonderful beginner screen printing machine and great price. I've made tens and tens of tshirts with no problem. Easy to install and operate. I would buy it again.

(Four stars for beginners) The Vevor printing machine CAN be adjusted to get a thin, even offset from the work surface. It takes too long to adjust if you're trying to pay the rent with this machine. I recommend using screens with aluminum frames. My wood frame couldn't get the adjustment right. The grips need to be tight and that just kept smashing the wood. Adjusting the fit was never predictable. My aluminum framed screen was much easier to adjust. That said, there are sooooo many nuts and bolts to adjust to get an even offset. If you want to do ONE production run per day, you should be fine. I was printing white ink on black material. I used Camie 380 Screen Printer Spray Adhesive on the platen. I made three passes with the squeegee. In between passes, I used a hair dryer on high heat to flash dry the ink. The final image had absolutely zero ghosting. I only needed to do a few shirts, and each one was perfect. However, I do not know how this would work after 50 shirts. CAUTIONS: 1) ADJUST YOUR SPRINGS AND YOUR STOP PAD! You want the tension to be just high enough that the screen will stay up with the squeegee resting in the back area of the screen. But you also want the screen to hold itself in place against the stop pad (a bolt near the back of the unit). The sensation is that as you lower the screen, the springs are pulling it back up UNTIL just before it hits the stop pad. At that point, you will feel the spring tension let up. 2) DON'T LET THE SCREEN FLY UP! The screen has two positions: All the way up; and All the way down. There is NO in between and your hand MUST be holding on to the screen between those two positions. Otherwise, the screen WILL fly upwards launching your squeegee and messy messy ink into the air. No, I did not learn this the hard way. 3) INSERT AND REMOVE SCREENS IN THE UP POSITION! The weight of the screen is helping to hold down the spring arm. If the spring arm is down when you remove the screen, the spring arm will launch upwards throwing the machine around and uncoupling the springs. Without the springs in place, the arm comes crashing back down. Yes, I learned this the hard way (at least no ink went flying). All that clattering about will throw all of your adjustments out of whack. If you are then going to insert a second screen to do a second production run, you will have to readjust everything to get your offset correct. This is a ONE color machine for producing monochrome prints. Don't complain if you cannot figure out how to get it to do two or more colors. That's not what it is designed to do. The 17mm wrenches that come with the machine are crap. I'm going to get a couple better ones to keep with the machine. I recommend this machine if you are new to screen printing and are not able/willing to invest 10x the price to get a high quality machine.

This machine is a great entry point into t-shirt based screen printing. Having used this device for nearly a year now there are small aspects which I had to learn to work with, but overall the exceptional gains this provides versus trying to do t-shirt prints by hand is unbelievable. The small investment into this machine versus the significant time and stress savings of trying to screen print without this tool makes it a no-brainer.

Just finished building this (yes it comes flat packed) but it’s awesome! So solid and well manufactured, definitely recommend

This thing is a life saver. It is well made and easy to use!

Nothing to complain about other than the included tools, but that is pretty minor. There is tons of adjustment, which is a must before your first use, but not a big deal if you are prepared for it. Note, that it will only work with adult shirts in its shipped configuration. You will need to make your own platen for kids shirts.

Gap between upper framework and based.