The mesh holds the image onto the screen and lets ink pass through when you by pressing it with a squeegee. A screen printing frame consists of a wood or aluminum frame stretched with polyester mesh on it. Ok, you have the art, you printed your films, now it's time to make the screen. It's very important for your film positive to be as black a possible, we'll explain why in the next step. There are many ways to make film positives whether it's going to your local print shop, hand drawing your image, or purchasing a compatible printer for use at home. A film positive transparency is basically like an overhead transparency (remember those from back in the day), what ever you want to print on the t-shirt, you print out in black ink on the film positive. Once your artwork is created and separated, the next step is creating a film positive in order to burn your image into a silk screen. Most screen printers use CorelDraw or Photoshop as their artwork program in order to separate and clean up the artwork for screen printing. When you screen print a shirt you print one color at a time, so if you're artwork is multiple colors, you need a way to separate those colors so you can create different screens for your design. When thinking about artwork keep in mind, garbage in = garbage out, so the better quality of artwork you start out with the better screen prints you are going to get on your t-shirt. Whether you create it, you copy it, or a customer brings it to you, screen printing all starts with artwork. To print a shirt you of course have to have something TO print onto the shirt.
#SCREEN PRINTING HOW TO#
Check out this easy to follow screen printing how-to guide to find out what you need to know on how to screen print.
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