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| auragreg |
 Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:23 am |
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Yep - last night. It actually came out good! I was surprised of the quality you can get from a DIY setup.
I'll post up my process and pics soon to document for myself and others.
I'm so stoked!
this is the artwork I decided on for my first decks:
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| pickieman |
| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:04 am |
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| Cool art - like a origami tree. |
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| auragreg |
| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:20 am |
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ok - tried my first prints .... I think I should have went with a little simpler art for the first go! 
I'm having huge problems getting the art to print at the edge of the board. I'm putting lots of pressure on the squeegee and it's still not printing. I have a 10" squeegee. Using my fingers to push the edges down.
Looking through the threads, it seems that possibly the screen is too tight. Do screens loosen up as you use them? Is there a way to loosen up a screen? |
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| DUBS |
| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:04 am |
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My printing skills are limited, but are you doing a flood coat before your passes?
That couldbe the problem. |
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| auragreg |
| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:59 am |
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| yes - I am. A VERY thin one seemed to work the best. |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:17 am |
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You're printing decks right?
PM skinny, dude know's his shit. He might help you out with some tips.
That's who I learned from. Good luck. |
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| PAWN |
| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:49 pm |
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| the screen didn't change color to a slight yellow where you were to have washed out the emulsion did it? If so, you may have burned the emulsion into the screen leaving no open holes. |
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| skinny |
| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:00 pm |
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auragreg wrote: ok - tried my first prints .... I think I should have went with a little simpler art for the first go!
I'm having huge problems getting the art to print at the edge of the board. I'm putting lots of pressure on the squeegee and it's still not printing. I have a 10" squeegee. Using my fingers to push the edges down.
Looking through the threads, it seems that possibly the screen is too tight. Do screens loosen up as you use them? Is there a way to loosen up a screen?
You can't loosen screens.
The technique you have to learn is called "the hook" it lets you put ink on the edge of the deck, while not pressing too hard on the middle.
Try not to print wider than about 7.25 on a flat screen.
Re-adjusting artwork to fit this size is a reasonable first step.
A "loose" screen is between 15-5 newtons. |
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| auragreg |
| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:58 pm |
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skinny wrote: auragreg wrote: ok - tried my first prints .... I think I should have went with a little simpler art for the first go!
I'm having huge problems getting the art to print at the edge of the board. I'm putting lots of pressure on the squeegee and it's still not printing. I have a 10" squeegee. Using my fingers to push the edges down.
Looking through the threads, it seems that possibly the screen is too tight. Do screens loosen up as you use them? Is there a way to loosen up a screen?
You can't loosen screens.
The technique you have to learn is called "the hook" it lets you put ink on the edge of the deck, while not pressing too hard on the middle.
Try not to print wider than about 7.25 on a flat screen.
Re-adjusting artwork to fit this size is a reasonable first step.
A "loose" screen is between 15-5 newtons.
Just printed (horribly) 3 more decks today. Still working on the "hook". My art is 8-1/4" wide ... so I am running into ink building up on the print side because I can't get it to hit the deck. No matter how hard I push. I'm getting close. But it's pretty random. Have had OK results printing middle and then a separate pass for both sides. I really should have started with simpler art. Looked cool on a shirt tho.
Printed some shirts tho - man - that was easy!! It's funny how once you get going you are running around looking for things to print on. I got a $6 polo shirt at Target that the design went really nice on.
I have read that some people like pushing the squeegee ... but no one really elaborated on the technique .... anyone??? |
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| newrepublicsteve |
| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:35 pm |
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pushing on flatstock, and garments is as easy as dropping in
are you right handed or left handed
which ever it is place the opposite foot leading forward
hold your arms out in front of you at a 45% angle or so, pointing down, and point your fingers with your thumbs tucked behind
place the squeege in you hands with your fingers on top, thumbs behind...
now you are ready to practice the stroke
place the squeege at the top of the screen with the screen in postion to be printed on the pallet...
now rock forward heel to toe front foot to back using the weight shift to move the squeege forward
it has some what the same feel of dropping in to me...
keep the squeege and your arms at the 45% angle throught the print and with practice it will glide easily across the screen..
also always flood the screen...
makes the world of priting so much easier....
also we always make 2 passes on the screen every time to make sure the entire image clears evenly...
someone once asked me if you'd rather pull a car or push it, because at the end of an 8 hours day that is about what you have done...
here is a 15 color print we did all using a push...
we did 100 of the 15 colors in 4 hours...
for those who have stated in the past that a push does not work as well as a pull, well you deicide
we run 3 presses 8 hours a day all pushing and have very little fatigue, wrist, shoulder or back complaints
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z1...steve/dead%20see/
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