Screens with proper tension will result in sharper print, prevent over inking of the print, and help with registration if you are doing more than a 1 colour print.Ī Wide Squeegee. When you poke your finger against the mesh, it must be firm and not sag like a fishing net.
Wooden or aluminium frames are both suitable but you need to ensure they have good tension. Effluent from plastisol clean up needs to be filtered or treated to be drain safe.Ī screen printing frame with mesh at proper tension. Water base inks can be cleaned with water and are usually drain safe. For our purposes, we use water base inks since they are easier to work with in a home setting.
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Plastisol inks are more expensive, are harder to clean up (you need solvents) but are easier to work with in a professional settings since they do not dry in the screen during long runs. Diazo free emulsions are for plastisol inks. Diazo emulsions are water ressistant and are designed for waterbased inks. Emulsion for t-shirt printing comes in 2 types. You can expect a high quality product because we will use high quality ink on proper screen printing frames.ĭual cure screen printing emulsion which is water ressistant. Although this guide is Ghetto in the sense that many cheap cost cutting hacks are used, the final screen printed t-shirt will be of professional quality which will last many washes without fading, unlike inkjet transfers, laser transfers and gimmicky methods of screen printing. So many things can go wrong but if you follow the steps and advice listed here, you will minimise them and end up with high quality custom printed t-shirts. T-Shirt printing via screen printing as a process is a trouble shooting exercise as you will realise. Take notes along the way both to solve problems and to prevent the repetition of them. Users need to follow the steps in chronological order. Using simple card stock means we no longer need computers, printers or expensive transparency film, thus widening access to this art form. Card stock will be used to great effect instead of the usual film positive light block stencils illustrated in other screen printing guides. Who Is This Screen Printing T-Shirt Guide For?Ĭheap screen printing of quality t-shirts or those who want to try out screen printing as a hobby but lack access to professional t-shirt printing equipment.
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