Saturday, February 27, 2010

I did it! My first screen print shirt!

So after messing up my emulsion previously, I made sure to really wet down the yudu screen (but not dripping) with water, then applied the emulsion paper and squeegee'd it smooth. I dried the screen this time for over an hour in the built in yudu dryer AND I let it sit in there for a few hours before attempting the screenprint. I was going to do a test shirt, but screw it! I went ahead a put down a toddler shirt and first flooded the screen with ink (not applying pressure to the shirt yet, only on the screen) then I put the screen down on the shirt and went over it twice with my squeegee. It came out PERFECT. I was surprised that I didn't mess it up! However my second shirt DID . I ended up spraying the screen with water as I was afraid it was going to dry to fast and the water ran into my 2nd shirt. Ah live and learn...

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