one color silkscreen
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- MLPROJECT0
screenprinting in 4 easy steps -
1. buy 'How to Print T-Shirts for Fun and Profit' - it tells you how to do EVERYTHING - what to buy, how to build dryers/screen mounts/etc, ink types vs. fabric types, cure times, burn times.. EVERYTHING.
2. buy your stuff... ryanrss.com is cheap and has free shipping on anything over $20 (minus large equipment)
3. build your stuff... i made my press table out of an old solid core door and 4 galvanized pipes w/ floor flanges. its sturdy and heavy as hell (which you need). i just drilled a series of holes across the back to hold my hinges at adjustable intervals.
4. press your stuff... posters are easiest... t-shirts move a little slower... get some plexiglass from home depot and cut a t-shirt form. i have two and usually press larger runs with a friend - like i'll pull and he'll put shirts on the form or vice versa. this is kind of DIY, but the next best thing to a vacuum table.
repeat.
- heavyarms0
How do you squish a light bulb a screen and a paper.?
I've learned so many different things but screenprinting still eludes me and seems complicated and difficult.
- floater0
heavy-
a light box. you want a flat surface to lay the image, screen and then something heavy to hold it all down. i also lay a blanket over it all so no outside light is exposing.
- radar0
yeah that amount of time is a bit drastic - and it part it probaly works out becuase of the distance.
Because if you put the light right on it it would be alot quicker - but could possibly damage if your not careful.
- MLPROJECT0
yeah.. my screen times are usually 2-3 minutes with a flash box... but with a photo flood/high watt bulb and a reflector dome it usually takes about 10-15 minutes
- heavyarms0
That's good advice. I'm going to check out that book.
BTW, What kind of paper do you use to print posters? Any kind?
- mrdobolina0
super ghetto way, works every time:
take a pie tin, use it as a reflector behind the 150 watt bulb, hang the light from the cieling 12 inches away from screen, make sure underneath your screen is a black piece of construction paper or some other sort of flat piece of black paper, otherwise it won't expose. 150 watt bulb, 45 minutes. After exposure, spray out screen with a jet of cool water. if you use a photoflood bulb, you can expose in 4-5 minutes. those bulbs arent that expensive, maybe 5 dollars.
- floater0
if you're just doing stuff for fun or for yourself or whatever, the ghetto ways work- work good actually. but if you're doing big runs of posters or whatever, you need a good setup- 4 color table with racks and dryers.
- mrdobolina0
if you are doing posters, you don't necessarily need a 4 color, the poster is a flat surface with an absolute edge, you could make a jig that would allow you to do multi-color printing with a one color printer.
- heavyt0
heavyArms,
are you in LA?
if so, I wouldnt mind going on with you on some equipment. It is somethign that i am interested in trying out too, but dont really wanna get in deep if it is a huge hassle to do.TR1
- sauerbraten0
go big or go home.™
- heavyarms0
Haha! No unfortunately I'm in St Louis. That would be cool though.
- heavyt0
well...not to steal your thread, if anyone around the eastside of LA wants to split the costs, email me.
TR1
- slice0
I like this thread. as if. I got like 20 large sheets of that orange film shit (I used to be a printer - like in the union printing press operator) I forget what its called, in the attic. Do you still use that in screening? I had a one color set up I used in the XX's. Hand cutting that stuff for a mask was where it was at. bye bye.
- BonSeff0
you mean amberlyth?
i still have a roll from schoolwas thinking of running a T that read :
real men use amberlyth
- slice0
Bonsie,
what are the kids using instead?
- BonSeff0
i use the liquid green emulsion and go to a local screen company to burn my screens.
i spend too much time on the art to screw that up. id like to eventually make a uv light vaccuum set up..
it would prolly eventually pay for itself. its an expensive hobby.i make my art on transparency paper bought at office depot and print it out on the ink jet. i have to tile it still like the old school strippers did.
ive never done t shirts myself though. that ink is horrible to work with IMHO.
- BonSeff0
here's the goop
http://www.texasscreen.com/detai…
- heavyarms0
>I like this thread. as if.
huh? are you some type of valley girl? or 12 year old girl?
- slice0
your contempt
pales in comparison to my self-loathing.douche.