Screen Printing Machine: Print Faux-co!

Step 6 Make your prints!

Grab your completed frame. Add a small amount of screen printing ink to the top of the stencil (on the dull side), under the plastic piece. Be sure you have a piece of paper underneath as you do this, to catch any drips.

Attach the frame to the top wood block with tape, plastic side down (touching the wood).

Put a piece of paper on the bottom block. The foam surface is an easy way to gauge where your print will appear.

Close the top block, and press down.

To recap: at this point, the closed press "sandwich" from top to bottom would be:
1. The top wood block
2. The top piece of 3.75 x 4.75 foam attached to the wood block
3. The 4x5 piece of plastic taped to the frame
4. The screen/stencil taped to the frame
5. The cardboard frame to which the plastic and stencil are attached

6. The paper

7. The bottom piece of 4 x 5 foam
8. The bottom wood block.

Now open up. Your print is ready!

One caveat to this method: I notice that it presses more ink through the screen than the traditional squeegee method. The last picture shows the "textured" look that the Faux-co produces. I'm not sure if thinning the ink would correct this, or if there's another way to avoid it.

Comments

[kretzlord]

well, they use a screen to put the ink on the pad, at least that's what it looks like

[C-lo]

I believe that is pad printing, not screen. Still ingenious