Silk Screen Help

King_Jut · Post by **King_Jut** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:41 am

Im looking into buying my own set up. Gotta be 4 col, going to need a drier, and exposuer unit too, and some where to clean and store the screens.

Anybody have any ideas what's good and where to get it from? Im also a complete novice at it!

Cheers guys

fourteener · Post by **fourteener** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:00 am

I have very limited screen knowledge but out of interest, are you thinking of printing on fluted board/ mugs/t shirts/posters/VLF?

King_Jut · Post by **King_Jut** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:05 am

Hey mate,

We are only planning on printing onto fabric, i.e T-shirts.

Dose it matter?

J

fourteener · Post by **fourteener** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:22 am

Well the only Screen machines I know are for applying decorative spot varnishes to paper/board and are fully automated. The varnish is cured by UV.
Sorry, I'm no expert in T shirt machines and I've only seen them at trade shows. Visually the screens were sized for T shirts (no surprise) and were manually operated and conventionally dried.

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:49 am

Probably only difference is the kind of inks used.

chickybok · Post by **chickybok** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:26 pm

Hey

I do loads of screen printing - posters / fabric.
Water based & chemical.

Instead of me buying all the set up (££) I joined a print club...
Hopefully this can't just be a London thing - there must be one in a town near you?

These are the two I belong to:
http://www.printclublondon.com/
http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/

well worth it!

King_Jut · Post by **King_Jut** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:49 pm

Thats a cool club!

Quick look on google and there is nothing in the area (dorset) but as Im working at the arts institue tomorrow ill ask there,

Thanks mate

johndglynn · Post by **johndglynn** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:45 pm

chickybok wrote:Instead of me buying all the set up (££) I joined a print club...

That is a really cool club, thanks for the links!