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A walk through the screenprinting process

I have an addiction with large format work. With Linocutting it was a pain to try to print large format prints at home without a press. But with Screenprinting it’s easier. In fact, I just bought a 76 x 96cm screen so I can do 50x70 posters and other larger prints. However, sometimes going smaller is the right choice. Today, I spent the morning (from 8am to 1pm) making these three-colour prints at Mesh Print Club. Initially, I was hoping to print a large A1 poster but then I realised that this smaller format (28 x 37cm) was much better.

Hope you enjoy some snapshots of the process and If you like the print and want to get one for yourself (only printed four of each) you can get them here:

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First thing to do when you arrive: get your screen with a coat of emulsion and leave it to dry ((theoretically overnight but 45min.-1h does the job)

Transparencies used for the design

Where the magic happens: Exposing the design unto the screen with a vacuum table and light unit

Exposed screen after washing out the emulsion from where the design is going to be

Inks are mixed with water to get the right yoghurt like consistency

‘Marty’, the screenprinting table with the screen prepared

Normally you would print from light to dark but in this print I wanted to have the colours over the black layer

When printing the first layer, the rest of screen where the other layers are is covered.

Luckily the ‘registration’ (or alignment between the different layers) went quite well

(one last part of the process I didn’t show is the cleaning part. Lots of cleaning…)