[bdeatrich]

I recently bought a Speedball screen printing kit and I want to print some t-shirts to wear.

I made the stencil of the design I want with the photo emulsion method and that worked fine. My main problem is when I apply the ink with the screen, the ink coverage on the shirt is very poor and not at all acceptable. I suspect it may be due to my inking technique.

Can anybody recommend a good way to apply the ink? (with detailed instructions?) Has this problem happened to anybody before?

 

[drivernumberone]

hey, it could be the squeegee, the amount of pressure, the garment you are printing on or most likely your squeegee angle. I would suggest you watch this little video to get a little more acquainted with the technique that you should adopt. It's got a lot of other basic stuff in there too but you can skip ahead to the printing part.. its pretty brief.

hope it helps.
RB

 

[drivernumberone]

Screen Printing Process, Screen Printing History, Silk Screen Process, Screen Printing Information, Silkscreen Process

forgot that sorry.

 

[pukingdeserthobo]

do u have off contact, with out that ur print will come out blurry or smudged.

 

[Solmu]

do u have off contact,

With a Speedball kit it's doubtful.

with out that ur print will come out blurry or smudged.

This isn't necessarily true. I think a lot more printing is done on-contact than a lot of commercial printers realise; it's not particularly unusual when printing fabric lengths for example. It might be a waterbased vs. plastisol thing, I don't know.

 

[bdeatrich]

I just wanted to let everybody know that I tried all the suggestions here to no avail and I've switched to EZScreenPrint and now it works perfectly.

 

[Adoratis]

i started 2 month ago, all the info i took from internet - mostly from youtube [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF4F0RpACCg[/media]

 

[fadzuli]

yeah my prints were better on-contact than off. i guess it depends on a few factors to get the print that you want.

 

[squeegee]

I recently bought a Speedball screen printing kit and I want to print some t-shirts to wear.

I made the stencil of the design I want with the photo emulsion method and that worked fine. My main problem is when I apply the ink with the screen, the ink coverage on the shirt is very poor and not at all acceptable. I suspect it may be due to my inking technique.

Can anybody recommend a good way to apply the ink? (with detailed instructions?) Has this problem happened to anybody before?

You need to provide more information, what kind of ink, what is the fabric content? Dark or light material? Mesh count of screens?