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Originally Posted by Solmu |  | | | | | | | | | No problem, by the time you read this I will have most likely replied  | |  | |  | |
Thanks - still digesting that last one
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Originally Posted by Solmu | | | | | | | | | | 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?). | | | | | | |
Yes, that's exactly right. Once you expose a screen, that is it. That's why I cut the marks in when they didn't expose properly - I didn't want to waste the screen. For the future, I'll probably add the crop marks myself, so they're a bit thicker and therefore actually expose, so cutting isn't necessary.
Each 8.5 x 11 sheet of transfer paper costs me about $15 AUD landed cost (e.g taking into account the exchange rate and shipping cost). Given many of my designs are small, because they are for baby clothes, I can probably get 3-4 screens from one sheet. So the per screen cost is quite reasonable.
It's probably important to try not to make too many comparisions to this versus a "professional" frame mounted screen on a jig - the former is great if you can afford not to be too concerned about labour and time for each print, the latter sounds great for long run professional stuff.
Having said that, I actually think even with a 1 colour PhotoEz screen, I could pump out more shirts in an hour than I can using a heat press. Using this "registration" method it would become heaps more fiddly and takes longer per shirt than heat pressing does.
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Originally Posted by Solmu | | | | | | | | | | 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  | | | | | | |
It had been my intention to tape the marks off (actually, I was going to tape the screen to the shirt, covering the marks in the process), but I um...forgot
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Originally Posted by Solmu | | | | | | | | | | Perhaps, but that'll pass. It's a good first shirt (or second, or third, or...) - congratulations. | | | | | | |
Thanks - practice makes perfect, as they say!