Silk screening posters and shirts yourself

In case you wish to get aesthetically tasteful results and are not really convinced by the results obtained by photocopying and you are searching for a medium which lies comfortably between being hand drawn and also can be exploited to some extent for mass production, silk screening is perhaps the most ideal choice in this scenario. You could make use of silk screening to design cool shirts and even cooler posters. Moreover, silk screening is a do it yourself task which can be easily mastered and managed by a little effort and patience. Here is a guide and a tutorial to help you with silk screening your own posters and shirts.

The first step for this purpose is to prepare and select an appropriate screen. For this purpose you would need a screen for the printing surface that has an appropriate mesh count and a suitable degreasing agent, preferably water based one. The screen could be aluminium based one or simply a wooden screen. Select any as per your requirement. In case you wish to repeatedly use the screen, an aluminium one would definitely be better and more reliable, in addition to being a little expensive as well. According to the desired level of detailing in your pattern, select a suitable mesh count. Wash the screen with a degreasing agent and some cold water.

The second step would be preparing your artwork. For this an original artwork would be required along with a transparent film. Prepare a stencil. Next, it would be required that you burn the stencil. For burning the stencil onto the screen, coat the screen with an emulsifier and leave it to dry. Now transfer the stencil to the screen. For the printing of the image, clamp the screen tightly and making use of an ink and squeegee, flood the image with ink. With the help of acetate, the print or image you wish for, can be registered by proper orientation of the paper or the shirt. The ink gets transferred by application of slight pressure and dries really fast so you need to be quick with your actions. In order to ensure that the printing is permanent, ironing the fabric from the reverse side would help. Since you have a screen with a stencil handy, you could repeat this procedure over and over and also mass produce the desired item. The only possible problem for mass production could be the drying up of the ink so you need to be very fast with the task. The second possible problem could be in creating exact replicas of the first product. The image you want to transfer would remain the same, even when it is repeated over and over. But the point of abnormality would be the orientation of the pattern. Since the method of production discussed by far is largely manual, it would not be possible that subsequent shirts be placed in exactly the same orientations as the preceding ones and thus minor deviations cold set in.

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