Adventures in DIY Screen Printing

Information and how to's with pictures for anyone interested in doing their own silk screen printing. Based on our adventures in DIY silk screen printing, by Deaths Head Designs.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Top Ten Worst Screen Printing Mistakes

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And How to Fix Them 1. Art problems - A. Start with good artwork, properly prepared. Don’t use a low resolution jpeg and think you will...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

How to Center a Shirt for Silk Screening

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Some shirts that you will buy come with a center crease and many people use that center line to line up the shirt. I do too, but being a car...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Why Screen Print?

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I’m an artist. I’ve always been an artist or intended to be one. I’ve done many different types of art... album art, magazine illustrations,...
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Friday, February 4, 2011

Drying and Curing Inks DIY Style

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We started our operation on a small budget. A really small budget. We bought our no frills 4 color press for around $500 (new, off of ebay)...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Finally, a good opaque water-based white ink!

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We had tried a few water-based white inks and they weren’t as opaque as we would want for most things, ok really for anything, so for a whil...
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Birth of an Award-Winning Poster

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A bit of my creative process. Got the job one day to do a new poster for Leviathan, the number one band I did posters for. They were openi...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

10 Things Never to do While Screen Printing Water-based inks and Discharge inks

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Don’t stop, slow down or take a phone call or Twitter break. Keep printing. If the ink dries in the screen it’s trouble. If you do have to ...
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