Silk screening is a lively and rewarding Art that allows you to print emulsion on cloth and paper goods. The development is a dwarf expanded intensive than other kinds of crafts, nevertheless the results are rewarding. In an afternoon and with the condign materials, you can keep extensive silk-screened projects with a competent Stop.
Instructions
1. Accept your draw, and turn it into a annulling on a personal computer graphics programme. Generate positive the parts that you close not hankering printed are blacked absent on your Shade, while the parts you discharge thirst for printed are left cleared.
2. Whether you prayer to assemble a chart with another than one colour, melanoid outside everything apart from the matters in the equivalent colour. Discharge this for Everyone colour you wish to print.
3. Print your design onto the transparencies.
4. Pour the photo emulsion into the photo-emulsion coater. Angle the coater onto the silk-screen, and run it down the length of your silk screen.
5. Allow the photo emulsion to dry in a clean place.
6. Set up a silk-screening light box. They are usually made from plywood and fluorescent lights. See the Resources section for more information on make one.
7. Sandwich the transparency between the coated photo emulsion screen (emulsion side down), and the top of the lightbox.
8. Lift the screen again, remove the sheet and insert what you wish to print under the screen along the registration marks.16. Pull the squeegee across the screen once, firmly and tightly.
Run the screen under a strong blast of running water to clear out the design on your screen.
10. Insert the screen into a set of table clamps attached to a table.
11. Pour silk screening ink onto the top edge of the screen.
12. Take the squeegee and press it against the screen, pulling it toward you to prep the screen. You will want a thin coat of paint to begin.
13. Lift the screen and make a test print by inserting a sheet of paper under the screen and running the squeegee across the screen.
14. Use blue tape to create a set of registration marks where you can line up your prints.
15. Turn the lightbox on. The length of time you leave it on will depend on the lightbox, so test a screen first. Do this on a different screen for each color you wish to print.9.
17.Lift your screen, remove your printed item and set it to dry.
18. Remove the screens, and repeat Steps 12 through 17 with any new screens and colors once each layer is dry.
