{"id":209,"date":"2006-12-22T09:49:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T01:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/22\/diy-screen-printing-success\/"},"modified":"2006-12-22T09:59:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T01:59:12","slug":"diy-screen-printing-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/22\/diy-screen-printing-success\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY screen printing (success!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently posted about our failed attempts at DIY screen printing<\/a>, but I also mentioned that everything did actually work out in the end<\/a>. So the question everyone probably wants answered is: “what happened in between!?”.<\/p>\n

Following guides such as (the very loud or excited) “HOW TO SILKSCREEN!<\/a>” No Media Kings’ “How to Silkscreen Posters and Shirts<\/a>“, we decided that we had to get ourselves some photo emulsion<\/a>. I won’t repeat the steps involved in using the emulsion here (as they are explained in both linked articles and in many other<\/a> places<\/a> as well), but here is the end result:<\/p>\n

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Now that<\/em>‘s a nice screen. Looks great doesn’t it! Much better detail and much less effort than what we tried before! Keep reading for more photos and descriptions of the actual printing process.<\/p>\n

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We didn’t have a special table or clamps, so it we had one person hold the frame while the other squeegeed. Before screen printing we put a piece of paper inside the shirts (to stop any paint seeping through to the back of the shirt). It all worked out pretty well:<\/p>\n

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We laid the shirts out for the pain to dry. They probably took around half an hour in the sun.<\/p>\n

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After they are touch dry, the prints are “heat set”. That means we put a piece of paper on top and iron them for a while.<\/p>\n

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And we’re done!<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: I’ll post in future about where we managed to find all the required equipment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently posted about our failed attempts at DIY screen printing, but I also mentioned that everything did actually work out in the end. So the question everyone probably wants answered is: “what happened in between!?”. Following guides such as (the very loud or excited) “HOW TO SILKSCREEN!” No Media Kings’ “How to Silkscreen Posters … Continue reading “DIY screen printing (success!)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-3n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}