r/SCREENPRINTING

Been running this solo for a while now — I handle the illustration (slide 3 artwork by Logan Rogers & slide 10 artwork by Dread), the screens, the printing, and the shipping myself.

No dropshipping, no outsourcing, every shirt cured and QC'd by hand before it goes out.

Figured I'd put together a round-up of the designs I've run so far instead of posting them one at a time.

Printed mostly on Carhartt because the garment holds up as well as the print does — I wanted these to actually get worn, not folded into a drawer.

Happy to talk process, mesh counts, curing, or etc if anyone's curious.

💪. We run puff and color changing and etc. Pics Below 👇. Ill add pics while I do cool things at my job. Any questions I am always here to help 😀. I love learning new techniques and effects for speciality printing.

I’m a flatstock printer who has been printing for a long time, but is trying simulated process for the first time and trying to up my game precision-wise. I’m good on how to convert to halftones in Photoshop. But, I’m trying to print something with a level of accuracy/precision that I haven’t dealt in before and wanted to get some input. I print films on an Epson P900, and generally deal with separations as layers in the same 300ppi grayscale PSD (with the registration marks as it’s own layer on top) and print each color/layer one at a time. I typically create halftones as bitmaps at 1200ppi and bring them back into my final SEPS file and reduce the size to 25%. 

Right now I’m looking to print a 7-color print, with 6 of the colors being 50lpi simulated process halftones. When working with 35–40lpi screens, I’ve been fine converting back from 1200ppi bitmaps to 300ppi grayscale…but I’m worried I’ll lose some of the lighter detail on the higher lpi screens this way. But, if I try to print a bitmap, I can’t let the printer manage the colors, I have to use a custom ICC and have Photoshop manage the colors. Any recommendations? I attached a screenshot of the print for reference.

I am not a professional, I just do this for fun. I did the design, screen printing and sewing all myself just for fun and because I like to make my own shirts as I can make them like how I like them

I am aware the print is large and not breathable but I like this look and I don't mind the feel.

I’ve been trying to be more involved in this community and realized I never posted my work on here so here you go!

Recent work on my 6/4 Riley 300 press. Started back up this year after more than a decade without printing. Dying to do more simulated process but most of the work I get is spot colors. Always looking to improve as well so if anyone has any questions or tips let me know!

Everything is screen printed using wilflex inks except the last shirt. The Mind Goblins shirt is DTF but I knocked out the black and added some halftones to make it look better.

Most of my customers keep requesting Comfort colors but man they suck now.

Own design.

4-color on white, 5-color on black, scroll through to see the layers + the original colored pencil drawing!

not my usual type of project but i thought this sign was so fun that i had to make something featuring it :)

Hello!! I’m having a really difficult time finding the exposure time on my new exposure unit. I’ve worked a lot with hydro-x red on just a cheap 30W light and it worked really well, but now I can’t get it. Sure my screens look detailed but there is still a lot of emulsion hanging on but also it takes while to wash out 9-10 usually for detailed stuff. Here are some of my burn times:

Edit: I do 1:1 coating

110 mesh

10: 4s
9: 8s
7: 12s
6: 16s
5: 20s
4: 24s
3: 28s
2: 32s
1: 36s

1: 15s
2: 10
3: 15
4: 20
5: 25
6: 30
7: 35
8: 40
9: 45
10:60

15s
2: 20
3: 25
4: 30
5: 35
6: 40
7: 45
8: 50
9: 55
10:60

305:

35 s
40 s
45 s
50 s
55 s
60 s
65 s
70 s
75 s
80 s