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Screenprinting
​Handouts

Link to Syllabi / Course Schedule and Projects


Drawing Materials & Tools

For Pencil/Charcoal effects:
  • Stabillo pencil (Black)
  • 6B Graphite Pencil 
  • Staetdler Omnichrom pencil
  • Aquarellable pencil (water-soluable)
  • Supracolor pencil (water-soluable)
  • Litho pencil/crayon
  • China markers
  • Lithocoal
  • For Solid effects:
  • Opaquing Pen
  • Acrylic Markers/pens (Krink)
  • Rubylith film or Amberlith film
  • Sticky dots
  • Sharpie oil based Paint markers
For Painterly effects:
  • Lascaux Tusche
  • Xerox toner & gum Arabic
  • Xerox toner & Isophropal alcohol 
  • Acrylic paint or Liquid Acrylic paint
  • Spray paint
  • Sand mylar with sandpaper to get textural effects.
For Photographic images:
  • Laser print transparency
  • Inkjet transparency
  • Oiled newsprint transparency
  • Xerox  transparency
  • Press on letters
  (DRAWING PAPERS FOR SCREEN

You can do a drawing on newsprint (then oil it), vellum, Acetate or frosted mylar.  (LINK TO DRAWINGS ON MYLAR)

Paper

Arches 88
Rives BFK
Lennox 100
Stonehenge
Bristol (2 ply)
Strathmore Bristol 400 series (4 ply)
Coventry Rag / 290 gsm, Vellum
Arnhem 1618
Pescia (smooth)
Paper available through the Print Shop (see Jim during class time)
Lennox 100 paper                          228 gsm 22" x 30";  $3.00/sheet
Cotton Fiber Proofing Paper.         270 gsm. 25" x 38";  $3.00/sheet
Dutch-Etching paper.                     300 gsm.  22" x 30";  $3.00/sheet


Transparencies

For digital images you can use Laserprints, inkjet, or Xerox.  
If printing a laser print, make sure you use a LASERPRINTER transparency and DO NOT USE AN INKJET transparency in a laser printer!!!!!!
Transparencies for Screenprinting
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Digital Transparencies

0a_making_a_halftone.pdf
File Size: 78 kb
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cmyk_separations_2020_new.pdf
File Size: 611 kb
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0_posterizations_in_photoshop.pdf
File Size: 22 kb
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Digital_basics.pdf
File Size: 728 kb
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Screenprinting_fundamentals.pdf
File Size: 7810 kb
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Films-for-screenprinting.pdf
File Size: 1139 kb
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Photo Emulsion

Mixing_Speedball_photo_emulsion.pdf
File Size: 201 kb
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Troubleshooting_photo_emulsion_final.pdf
File Size: 32 kb
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screen_degreasing.pdf
File Size: 49 kb
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Haze Remover Instructions
File Size: 39 kb
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Burning a screen / Setting the exposure time

Setting the exposure time.pdf
File Size: 6309 kb
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Laserjet, Oiled transparency, Krink marker, micron pens                           60 Ltu

Inkjet transparencyChina marker, graphite on transparency, vellum          45 Ltu

Oiled injet transparency on newsprint.                                                       120 Ltu

Printing Basics

Screenprinting Basics_.pdf
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Registration Methods

Master Drawing Registration
File Size: 1593 kb
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Key Image_registration.pdf
File Size: 9920 kb
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Pin registration.pdf
File Size: 5199 kb
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printing_registration_marks_in_photoshop.pdf
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Printing registration marks.pdf
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Troubleshooting Printing

screen_troubleshooting_revised.pdf
File Size: 43 kb
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Process Handouts
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Reduction & CMYK_project_notes.pdf
File Size: 24 kb
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reduction_process.pdf
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key_w_transparent_color.pdf
File Size: 13687 kb
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Clean up

Cleanup Procedure_Stripping screen.pdf
File Size: 25 kb
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