If you are one of the many people who enjoys sports and think that getting into the screen printing business to print athletic apparel will be a great way to make money, this chapter is for you. Co...
The use of special effects inks can add a great profit center to your t-shirt printing business. Offering just a few of these novelty inks can increase your customer base considerably. The extra ...
Most of the full color “photo-realistic” type of images that you see printed on many t-shirts today are printed with a screen printing technique known as simulated process screen printing. In fact...
Unlike printing on white or other light colored t-shirts, printing dark colored t-shirts can present certain challenges. There are certain tips and tricks to printing dark shirts and we’ll give you...
To be able to screen print photographic or grayscale images, an image must be converted into what is known as “halftones”. A halftone image consists of many small dots that make up the grayscale p...
In this chapter, the more advanced screen printing technique of multi-color printing will be covered. The techniques in this chapter are written for the printer who is using a manual multi-color sc...
Screen reclaiming is the process of the removing the old emulsion from a screen to make it ready to be used again. Once it has been determined that you will no longer be using an image on the scree...
The first step in cleaning up after a screen printing job is cleaning the screens, tools, and equipment used to print the job. While clean-up is not most screen printers idea of fun, the job can b...
There are a number of techniques to becoming a good t-shirt screen printer (especially if you use manual printing equipment) and knowing how to use a squeegee properly is foremost among them. In t...
This chapter covers final pre-production steps before beginning any screen printing job. Included in this discussion is advice on setting off-contact on the screen printing press and the importan...
This chapter covers what you need to know when preparing for t-shirt screen printing. Included is information on the essentials: setting up the press, how to properly line up an image on the shirt,...
Although you can create a screen exposure with almost any light source including the sun, we recommend you purchase a commercially made exposure unit or build your own to obtain predictable and rep...
Screens are one of the essential components used in the screen printing process and their are several types available. We are going to cover wooden, rigid aluminum, retensionable roller, and retens...
INTRODUCTION
Screen-printing, sometimes called silk screening or serigraphy, has long proved its worth as a fine arts and commercial medium. While SPEEDBALL® Screen Printing Materials meet the hig...
By Jane Davilla & Elin Waterston
112 Pages, Color, PDF
Includes 2 bonus how-to videos embedded in the PDF.
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