TRAINING CLASSES
VASTEX UNIVERSITY
Screen Printing A to Z
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced professional, outperforming your competition hinges on improving your quality, reducing your costs, and keeping your repeat customers while attracting new ones.
STEPS TO SUCCESS
STEP 1 - VECTOR ART FOR BEGINNERS
This class will help students learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to work with client supplied artwork, creating designs from scratch, manual color separations and proper transparency printing.
Duration:
One day
Skill level:
Beginner
STEP 2 - ADVANCED ARTWORK AND COLOR SEPARATIONS
This advanced course is designed for screen printers who want to expand beyond basic vector artwork. The class with cover preparing complex designs and producing professional-quality film positives.
Duration:
One day
Skill level:
Intermediate
This class will help you understand the basics of screen printing — from film positives to screen preparation to printing shirts.
Duration:
½ day
Skill level:
Beginner to intermediate
STEP 4 - 3-DAY HANDS-ON TRAINING
Our intensive three day hands-on training program is a well-rounded class for both newcomers to the industry and experienced screen printers who need more technical training.
Note: This class includes Step 3 - Intro to Screen Printing
Duration:
3 days
Skill level:
Beginner to intermediate
COMPLETE TRAINING PROGRAMS
In four days, you will experience the entire screen printing process from beginning to end, with detailed training on each step from prepress through reclaiming. In addition to the fundamentals of screen printing, you will learn shortcuts and techniques that will save time, money and improve results, giving your screen-printing enterprise an edge over the competition.
If you do not have a working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, please take the Five Day Screen Printing A-Z class.
This class can be taken as a complete course or as individual classes. The following classes are included:
Instructor:
Duration:
4 days
Skill level:
Beginner to intermediate
Next Class:
Apr 28 - May 1, 2026
This course covers all aspects of the screen printing process from start to finish, beginning with using Adobe Illustrator to create vector graphics or work with client supplied artwork. It then follows with step-by-step detailed instruction on every phase of the screen-printing process from artwork to screen prep, printing, curing and finally to cleaning and reclaiming.
This class can be taken as a complete course or as individual classes. The following classes are included:
Instructor:
Duration:
5 days
Skill level:
Beginner to intermediate
Next Class:
Apr 27 - May 1, 2026
DYNAMIC SIMULATED PROCESS PRINTING ON DARK GARMENTS -
This informative session will help you understand the principles of designing for and screen printing on dark garments, including special print techniques to increase productivity.
PERFORMANCE FABRIC AND SPECIAL
EFFECTS WORKSHOP -
When they were 100% polyester, no one wanted them. Now they are called Performance Fabrics and everyone is being asked to print them, but many printers are uncertain about what to use and how to handle them.
