Alternatives to Silkscreen?
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- fredddddd
What are some good alternatives to Silk screen?
I have a drawing that I want to put on a hand made poster.
Xerox transfer is kind of iffy. Am I out of luck?
- yurimon0
only way i see is digital print...You have to find a place that can handle the size you want printed and also. depends on quantity, quality cost. etc... Your scanning the poster?
- monNom0
- print to iron-on transfer and iron it on the poster.
- Make a lino-cut and press it on, or have a rubber stamp made
- hand-cut a stencil and spray-paint it on
- print to normal paper and use alcohol and rubbing to transfer the image (may get blurry)
- there's also a way to do that last one with acrylic medium I think.
- trace it on using transfer paper, or self-made graphite paper (pencil+tracing paper)
- scratch out an engraving plate, ink, wipe, wet paper and press
- draw your stuff with a dark pencil (like 8B), then rub the back to transfer some graphite to the poster
-use an opaque projector to project your image onto the poster, trace away.
- omg0
- foz0
- showpony0
• you can actually use gesso to do transfers... way better and sharper than acetate/xerox transfers... still a little hit or miss, though.
• you can do emulsion transfers if your image could be easily screen printed. i've done this on both wood and metal, and it's the same resolution as a fine weave screen.
- doesnotexist0
some places will throw anything into their machine (shoes, backpacks, apparel) and they can print on them. ask around.
- uan0