Powakai

If you are that down and dirty and don't have the right equipment I can suggest two things. One the glass needs to be "photoclear" your typical "soda glass" causes too much difussion. Almost any glass company sells it. You wil have waaaay better results. If you can't get a piece that's OK use what you got.

Rather than using a crummy light source... use the SUN! You have to be fast: Have a piece of foam thicker than the screen wood ie 3 to 4 inches thick of foam. Have the coated screen with the artwork attached to it in a black garbage bag. Find a level spot, put the foam on the ground, whip out the screen, put it over the foam, put the glass over it and expose. I don't know what kind of emulsion you have but a guess would be about a minute/minute and a half. When done exposing just throw the bag over the screen, get another bag and slip it all in keeping the sun out. It even works on grey days no problem. I had to do this when my shop burned down ( along with 20 other businesses in the building). Long story but you do what you gotta do! Good luck.

Oh yeah... by the by if you don't have emulsion remover you can use bleach. Takes about 20 minutes to soften the emulsion but it WILL work.

 

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