makin' shirts
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- ewo
oooh ahhh! threadless craze!
anyway, I want to make some of my own shirts. anyone got trusted silk-screening places in the US? what is normal pricing, etc?
- ********0
doesn't AA do it? man this subject is damn overtalked about, use the dB. ;)
- tny0
go to your local art store, get screens, photo emusion, ink, go crazy. it's cheaper and you get cool 'custom' shirts
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- mrdobolina0
open your phone book and lookup either 'screenprinting' or 't-shirts' it makes absolutely no sense to ship something across country that you can get locally.
- tymeframe0
how much would one have to invest to get equiped with the screens, ink, ect. to make their own shirts?
- mrdobolina0
depends on how pro you want to get. If you want to print light colors on dark fabrics, you will need to use a plastisol ink, which has to be cured by heat and/or UV to be colorfast, which gets pretty expensive. If you are only going to be printing on light colored shirts you can use waterbased inks. in which case, order a kit from http://www.dickblick.com for cheap.
- ********0
mrdobolina's right
- tymeframe0
cool, thanks
- tny0
- mrdobolina0
I built a 4 color screenprinter about 8 years ago out of wood. It was the most ramshackle fat albert thing you have ever seen in your life, but it worked.
- armed_rob0
how do you guys get the graphics on the screen??
Pasta and films and light???
- BonSeff0
i prefer lasagna
the wider the pasta the better
- tny0
print your eps to a transparency, place the trans on the screen with emulsion on it, expose, add egg whites, blend thoroughly
- mrdobolina0
use wax paper stencils for the real fat albert look!
- tymeframe0
It looks like it's hard to go wrong with a cheap screen press. i want one.
- tny0
if you can get your hands on a really high wattage bulb to expose the screens it helps...just takes less time. go 500w
- mrdobolina0
you can cut that time down considerably by finsing photoflood #2 bulbs.
- infect0
... or UV lights....