Comments on: Screen printing equipment

By: lexain

lexain — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:33:17 +0000

this site has really enlightened me on the good printin.
it has been very helpful.
keep it up.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:28:43 +0000

Thanks for all the time and effort put forth for the tutorial, it took alot of the worry away when trying to endevor on a hobby I have wanted to to for years.

I have been playing around with textiles for some time now, and found that if you do a single application of the water based ink onto fabric, that flipping it over onto cookie paper is best as the ink wont addhere to it and it just stays on the design.

I am buying more inks and other supplies tomorow to get the ball rolling on using screens.
Do you have any suggestions for printing multiple colors without a multi screen press? We will only have the singe press/ stamp process.

Thanks and Cheers!

Anna from Colorado

By: Printing Perth

Printing Perth — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:23:02 +0000

Hey,

A terrific blogg.

I’m thinking about getting into some screen printing and it was terrific to stumple onto this site.

Keep it up.

Cheres,
Peter

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:18:14 +0000

If you are going to print them on an ink-jet printer, you will have to use transparancies made especially for an inkjet printer.

It is preferable to use a laser printer instead of an injet. You will get better results. I have found that I can use generic transparencies, and haven’t needed the ones specifically designed for laser printers.

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:23:15 +0000

Nice Tutorial Rob. At the begining you talked about Transperancies. Can I just use a regular transperancy or do I have to use the transperancies specifically for ink jet printers? Thanks alot, You can e-mail me at rogsmith@chorus.net

By: tom

tom — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:23:56 +0000

nice site and good information. i am just working on a small diy zine about screenprinting. you surely do have the most understandble instructions on the english side of the net. excellent. cheers from germany.

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:43:11 +0000

Im looking into making some shirts. Your information is straight forward and understandable. TY!

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:22:23 +0000

You can use springs, but the trick is finding the right size springs. I actually tried springs, but they stretched and weakened, didn’t work any more. They were also difficult to keep attached. The rubber bands, and zip ties were cheaper and worked much better.

By: Shanley

Shanley — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:23:26 +0000

On your screen printing press plans, you are using rubber bands and plastic zip ties for tension to hold up the screen. Is there a better method such as springs or bungees?

By: Elek Kovacs

Elek Kovacs — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:14:03 +0000

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a site or email me plans to build a flash dryer. I’ve built a one colour screen printer and I don’t think I should buy a flash dryer if I’ve built my printer. I’m pretty good with my hands and I’d like to know what kind of heating elements they use. I’ve tried to find a picture of the bottom of the flash dryer but alas there is no photo available that I’ve seen on the thousands of pages I’ve looked at. You can email me at ekovacs@excite.com. Thanks for reading.

By: sunil kumar

sunil kumar — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:53:51 +0000

please send me details about t shirt printing

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:29:26 +0000

I appreciate and understand your thoughts on the multi color press. The instructions for the one color press were very easy to follow and assemble. Cheap too! We are actually making professional quality prints with it and get many compliments (and requests for shirts). As it is just a hobby I am not inclined to purchase a machine but that is a mute point as yours works great. Thanks again.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:11:39 +0000

Thanks for the complements! Were the plans for the press clear enough? If there was anything that wasn’t clear, please let me know. Same with the screen printing instructions.

Am not sure about giving out the plans for the multi-color press. The problem is that I bought the plans for that, and even though I modified the design some, it might still be too close to the original. I feel that might be ethically wrong.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:44:04 +0000

Rob,
Thanks a ton for these instructions. My daughter and I love making shirts for her and her friends. Your press works fantastic! Do you think you will ever give out the plans for the multicolor press?

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:51:14 +0000

Thanks guys! I enjoy screen printing, and I am happy to pass on the little bit I know. Sorry about the newbies forum. I have been over though, and mostly just lurked.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:36:22 +0000

Thanks so much for this extemely helpful tutorial for us newbies. It is a lot more help than screenprinters.net newbies forum. Some of those guys over there are downright nasty. As if they were born knowing how to do screen printing. I hope someone treats them as mean when they need help about something someday. Thankfully there are some nice ones as well and they helped and that’s how I found this web site.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 07:53:26 +0000

No problem. Have fun with your press!

By: Edward Russo

Edward Russo — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:50:53 +0000

I have a four color printing press that someone gave me. It was beat up and needed come work. Broken parts, rust and abused. I fixed the convayer belt dryer rolers. sanded dowm all the parts, lubed it and put it back togther. Thank you for all the information on how to print shirts it is a real help!!