Making A Screen Printer

It s true what they say.

Making a screen printer.

You ve come to the right place. Then make a stencil of your design and lay it on your fabric. Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil a blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh apertures with ink and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact. Ready to make a screen and you aren t quite sure where to start.

We ll walk you through each step of the process of how to make a screen for screen printing. My name is stephanie and i ve been screen printing for over a year now and i was asked how i screen print using my cricut so i made this video. This seems simple but high quality screen creation is one of the. Screen printing is a printing technique used to quickly stencil an identical image on multiple objects often clothing.

A good print starts with a good screen. Next lay the screen over the stencil and spoon out paint onto the screen. If you re screen printing onto a t shirt first lay a newspaper inside the shirt so the paint does not seep through.