For your silk screen.
Materials used in silk screen printing.
Silk screen printing is a versatile printing technique that is easy to learn and use.
A silkcreen of appropriate mesh on a screen 3.
5 essential screen printing tools.
A screen will be required to make the stencil through which the ink will pass onto your shirt.
The following is a basic list of chemicals or consumables needed to screen print tee shirts with plastisol inks.
It is ideal for printing on a variety of surfaces and materials such as fabric paper wood metal and plastic.
The silk screen in silk screen printing is a metal or wooden frame with a fine mesh fabric stretched over the top.
A design for a substrate you want to print on 2.
We all know about artwork but how does it get to a screen to be printed for a tee.
It should be a mesh fabric which allows the ink to pass through although it could also be a recycled synthetic fabric such as muslin or organdy a stapler glue a paintbrush a hammer.
A wooden frame screen printing fabric for textile printing.
Emulsion remover to remove emulsion from your screen in order to reuse the screen.
Silk screen printing is one of the most popular printing techniques and is the most used by companies when printing designs onto products of different sizes and materials.
7 cuoring process for drying the printed substrate this are the main items needed to do a print so many other items also available as per requirement.
There are tons of supplies used to produce vibrant screen printed tees.
Scrub brushes to remove emulsion and or degrease screens.
It has been used for more than 100 years in the commercial and artistic sector and is mainly used for printing images and designs on t shirts tote bags paper wood ceramics and other materials.
2 screen mash fixed on the frame with required exposed design 3 squeegee as per shore hardness like 65 shore 75 shore etc 4 coater generally metal 5 ink.
Emulsion to coat your screens and make the stencil.
You can use either wood or aluminum to make the frame.
Registration marks on the positives that is exposed onto the screen 4.
It can be bought from a store or you can build one for yourself.
I d suggest that you go with aluminum as it s more durable than the wood frames.
Ink matched to te colour y.