Screen Printing

How To ScreenPrint T-Shirts Video

Learning To Screen Print Your Own T-Shirts
Nice little video showing the basics for printing t-shirts.  Some of these basics include:

Choosing a silk screen and where to get it
How to apply light sensitive emulsion
Light sources to burn the screen.  (They show an exposure unit like the one I built) CLICK HERE
How to burn the screen
Washing out [...]

How Long Do I Expose My Screen For?

This is a question I get a lot.  Any my answer is, That depends.  Many things factor into the equation of how long to expose the screen for like, screen mesh, type and age of emulsion, type of lamps in the exposure unit, how old that lamps are, and the list goes on.  So what [...]

10 Tips For Applying Emulsion On A Screen

When you grab your scoop coater your mission is to create a gasket in which ink will pass through the screen and create a clean crisp image on your t-shirt.  many people over look the basics and the output shows it.    The reason we coat the screen is two fold.  Number one is we [...]