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by Jesseacosta
Mon May 27, 2013 11:07 am
Forum: Exposing & Washing Out The Stencil
Topic: Screens arent completely washing out.
Replies: 3
Views: 2176

Re: Screens arent completely washing out.

Ill try that, as well as doubling up the film positives. Ive been reading up my situation, and it might just be that the film isn't doing its job of protecting the areas that need to be washed out. According to everything I've read, washing out a screen should be easy, and if it's not, it's because ...
by Jesseacosta
Sun May 26, 2013 2:08 am
Forum: Exposing & Washing Out The Stencil
Topic: Screens arent completely washing out.
Replies: 3
Views: 2176

Screens arent completely washing out.

Hello! Very new to screen printing, trying to make my first print using my own artwork. I made a film positive on a transparency at Office Depot, and they look really great. Super dark blacks. My pdfs I took them were 1200 dpi bitmap images, so they were real crisp. At home, I am using a speedball 1...
by Jesseacosta
Sat May 25, 2013 12:02 am
Forum: Making Film Positives
Topic: Vellum?
Replies: 1
Views: 1890

Vellum?

Hello everyone! I'm fairly new to screen printing! For years I wanted to get into it, but thought it was an expensive thing to get into, but finally did some research and now I'm actually making prints and having fun. So far, I've taken PDFs of my film positives to Office Depot to print on transpare...