How to Screen Print: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE HOW TO SCREEN PRINT DESIGN CREATION Your printer will take that design and print it on a transparent acetate film. SCREEN PREP Your printer will select a mesh screen to complement the complexity of your design, and your screen printing paper, or fabric's texture. Afterwards, a light-reactive emulsion will coat EXPOSURE the mesh screen OF EMULSION Now, you will have to lay the acetate sheet featuring the design on the emulsion-coated screen, and expose it to very STENCIL bright light. The light will CREATION harden the emulsion, and the parts of the screen covered by Once you notice, that the exposed parts of the design are hard, you will need to rinse the liquid the design will remain liquid. emulsion. This will leave a distinct imprint of the design on the screen to let the ink pass through. Then you will dry the screen and let the printer do necessary ITEM touch-ups or corrections to make PREPARATION your imprint as accurate as possible to your original design. FOR PRINT You can choose from different presses like automatic and manual styles, but if you choose a modern commercial printer, then PRESSING INK remember that it will use an automatic rotary carousel ON THE ITEM printer. THROUGH THE SCREEN Now you will lower the screen on the printing board. Then you'll add the ink to the top end of screen, and spread the ink on the screen's full length. This will press the ink through the stencil's open areas and DRYING THE PRODUCT imprint the design on the item underneath. AND CHECKING IT In the end, you will pass the printed item through a dryer. The dryer will cure the ink and For more details, you may visit create a smooth, colour-fast finished item. You will require tshirtplus.com.au/blog/screen-print-guide to check and wash it thoroughly, before passing it on to its new owner.