How To Screen Print At Home

Screen print is a millenary printing technique seemingly originating from Polynesia.

How to screen print at home. Put the plastic canvas screen behind the film for support and clean the image. Place the screen directly onto paperfabric you want to print onto. After all the image is cleaned let it dry.

Raise the screen up off the paper and hold it in place with your belly or rest it on your belt buckle. Spread a line of the prepared printing ink along the top edge of the screen. Lay down your screen on a garbage bag.

Apply a thick strip of ink to the base of the screen under the artwork with a palette knife roughly three fingers width either side of where the ink will end up. Place the screen and stencil under your light which should be the appropriate wattage according to the instructions on the emulsion bottle. The screen printing machine functions like a stencil.

The screen printing website suggests a soft bristle brush I prefer my fingers and a sponge brush. Printing services include but are not limited to stationary invitations labels and apparel such as T-shirts caps jackets and towels. Grab that squeegee and use it to make a single smooth movement across down the screen as you exert strong pressure.

Heres how the printing process goes. Screen printing basically works by creating a stencil and then pressing ink through that stencil onto fabric. Lay the screen with the emulsion side down onto a dry cloth or towel.

Place the screen on the flat black background with the non-recessed part facing upward. With a small initial investment plenty of motivation and a solid marketing plan you can launch your own screen printing business and turn a profit in no time. Put a clean piece of glass over the design to hold it in place flip on the light and expose for the appropriate amount of time.