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Silk Screen Help
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:41 am
by King_Jut
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
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:00 am
by fourteener
I have very limited screen knowledge but out of interest, are you thinking of printing on fluted board/ mugs/t shirts/posters/VLF?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:05 am
by King_Jut
Hey mate,
We are only planning on printing onto fabric, i.e T-shirts.
Dose it matter?
J
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:22 am
by fourteener
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:49 am
by Nige
Probably only difference is the kind of inks used.
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:26 pm
by chickybok
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!
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:49 pm
by King_Jut
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
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:45 pm
by johndglynn
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!