cyris3d

Well I have ventured into screen printing. Well I started off buying the opaque speed ball kit. Also picked up a quart of Triangle Ink Phoenix White.

First problem, When doing my first 2 attempts to transfer my art work to my screen.. The very middle of the screen seemed to burn and darken and the rest would wash out fine. I figured that the flood light bulb was putting too much heat on the middle of art work thus burning it.

Third attempt on transferring my art to screen with a 150w bulb and 1hr exposure, I had a winner. The screen washed out great.

Now onto the actually screening part. First I tried the Triangle white.
heres how it came out

http://www.lvdr.net/whiteink1.jpg

The ink didnt seem to get all over the shirt.. It gave it a faded look. Im not sure what Im doing wrong? And also this Triangle Ink is a killer to clean up. I was scrubbing my squeegee, hands and everything else forever to get it all off..

Then I tried the Speed ball Silver ink.
heres how it came out

http://www.lvdr.net/silverink.jpg

It came out the same way the white did. Giving me a faded look. Any ideas?
But... the Speedball Silver ink was a dream to clean up. It just came right off with no problems.

Well any help or comments would be very appreciated.

thanks in advance.
Justin

 

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Solmu

It's hard to be sure, but it looks like the main problem is just that you're laying down one layer; most inks won't give perfectly opaque results on dark fabric with one print, you generally need to flash it and give it a second hit.

If you're not doing a flood stroke that might be contributing to the patchiness on the silver.

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I agree 100% with Lewis. Looks like you need to print flash print. Using waterbased inks I have seen where you may even need a 3rd print. - print flash print flash print.

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