![]() The next day the sensatizer was dry and I was ready to "burn" the screen. I had 3 copies made because you need the artwork to be super black to block out the light. Luckily, I brought the image that I had printed on my inkjet, which they photocopied onto transparency and it was crisp and perfect. I don't, so I emailed the image to Staples, but when they printed them it was very pixelated and smudged looking (odd?). If you have a laser printer and transparencies, you can print them yourself. The green stuff washes away where the artwork was, leaving you with your stencil (negative)!įirst you'll need to prepare your artwork with Photoshop, Print Shop, Word or whatever. Then you expose it to light and the green stuff hardens everywhere EXCEPT where the black lines of the artwork block the light. You put this green stuff on the screen, and when it's dry you put a transparency with your artwork on it. Here is the big picture, nutshell, explain-it-to-me-like-I'm-a-6-year-old version: ![]() If you're interested in screen printing, make sure to read at the end of this post where I share some other screen printing options to consider. Or like making a negative on the screen, for those of us who remember 35mm film :) My first attempt didn't go so well, but I'm close to figuring it out. Photo emsulsion screen printing is like making a stencil right on the screen, no cutting required. Until now, I have only done freezer paper stencils with fabric paints, and let me be the first to tell you that cutting out intricate details is a royal pain.
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