overthecurve

Hello, im new to screen printing. Im from Quebec, Canada. And i have recently bought supply from montreal at a art supply store. They sold everything u needed from speedball.

So from that i couldnt find any supplyiers around my area, and i live 4-5 hours from montreal and that was the closest, which i can find for the supplys i needed to start my screen printing.

So i ended up buying speedball wooden frames, speedball water down ink, Hinges to build my own station, and the other stuff needed to get me going.

Well i have gotten the stuff, but havent started to test it out yet, was wondering if the speedball ink is good? how long will it last untill it start to fade away and peel?

Im having problems finding a good price on a flash unit in my area, there all going for 1200 which is expensive for college student like myself. So i was wondering if i buy a heat gun, will it work as good? i know i will have to do it for 30-45 seconds, but will i still have to iron the speedball ink, because on the bottle it says to iron the ink with a cloth or paper, so it wont wash off in the washer.

Can anyone answer my questions, I own my own clothing company so ive ended up buyign my won equiptment to print my own shrits astead of gettign them made by otehr people.. so was wondering if speedball will stand out and lasts on the shirts to sell to my fans and etc.

Chris.

 

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