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Screen Printing Frames come in wood and aluminum. There are advantages and disadvantages of each, find out which you need here! Plus learn about mesh sizes, cleaning and more! Holden's Screen Supply - Shop and Save!

Emulsion screen printing essentially means that you coat your silkscreen with photo emulsion.  This process is a little messy for beginners, but as you become more proficient your completed silk screens will take on a nice uniform professional look. To properly apply your photo emulsion to your silkscreen, it is recommended that you utilize a scoop coater to evenly apply the photo emulsion to your silkscreen. The emulsion application process should be done in a nice smooth even coat on the print side of the silkscreen.  3 Steps to Coating your Silkscreen with Emulsion The screen should be held at a 45...

Screen printing is used to print on many different substrates besides fabric, and paper.  You can screen print on glass, metal, ceramics, vinyl, walls, floors, powder coated aluminum to name a few.   So understanding what you will be printing on, will determine the screen printing ink you need to use.  The ink system will also determine the type of photo emulsion, and the mesh count you need to use on your silkscreen, but that will be for another blog post. Here are some of the most common printing surfaces, and the ink systems you would potentially want to use. Fabric...

Screen Printing Ink is a specialized ink that is formulated for silkscreening.  There are numerous type of inks to choose from, so you will need a different screen printing ink for different printing surfaces. Regardless of the type of screen printing ink you select, the primary coefficient used to classify something as screen printable, is the viscosity of the ink system. Screen printable inks require a higher viscosity (thickness) so that when applied to the silkscreen, the ink doesn't run through the image area like water.  As you can imagine, this would not be good for business.  The thicker screen printable...

Many screen printers don’t use water based inks simply because they think that screen printing with waterbased ink is tricky and complicated.  But do you know these inks can be a joy to use and printing with water based inks can give you a smooth result? If done right, your prints will be softer to touch, more detailed, more environment-friendly as compared to other inks. The result will also be more durability when compared to the plastisol ink.  All you need is to learn some key tips and tricks about using waterbased inks for your printing process, and you can...