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Originally Posted by funtimesx |  | | | | | | | | | oh, and heads up Solmu, there's another PM heading your way shortly!  | |  | |  | |
No problem, by the time you read this I will have most likely replied
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Originally Posted by funtimesx | | | | | | | | | | But, I have just done my first three colour print with my PhotoEz kit, and I think it turned out pretty well, so I wanted to:
a) Show off 
b) Tell people what I did, hoping it helps others! | | | | | | |
Showing off is fun, and it's cool to see what people are working on.
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Originally Posted by funtimesx | | | | | | | | | | You'll notice because I'm a touch lazy, I've only done two screens not three - the olive in the martini is included in the "It's my drink" screen. I'll explain how I still ended up with the three colours later. | | | | | | |
Lazy can be a good thing when it saves you screens
Using transparent inks you could probably print the yellow screen first as it is now, then print the blue second with the olive exposed on it as well. You'd want to do some tests first, but you should get a decent green just printing the blue onto the yellow on the shirt.
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Originally Posted by funtimesx | | | | | | | | | | The crop marks ended up as "ghost images" on the screen, so I used an box cutter to put slits through each screen at each of the eight marks. | | | | | | |
That's the first time I can recall hearing of someone cutting their screen to give them registration marks. Is the EZ system semi-disposable? (i.e. you can re-use the screen for multiple prints, but not wash out the screen and put different designs on it?).
If your registration marks are exposed and not taped off you want them as far away from the artwork as possible - I say this as someone who occasionally forgets to tape something off and prints it
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Originally Posted by funtimesx | | | | | | | | | | I think this is largely due to poor technique (as I said, I've only had the kit for a few days, and this is my first attempt at screen printing anything), and possibly a little due to "make shift" materials in using craft paint rather than "proper" screen printing ink. | | | | | | |
Perhaps, but that'll pass. It's a good first shirt (or second, or third, or...) - congratulations.