Altough most tutorials i found do use the light-sensitive emulsion based printing, instead of just synthpaper cutouts below the. However, i do see some tutorials flood the screen with ink with a single downstroke before lowering the screen to the surface. The mesh is coated with a light sensitive emulsion or film, which - when. Applying quite a lot of pressure and usually ending with a sort of scraping upward stroke. Over this sheer fabric you put a thin sheet of plastic into which you have cut holes where you want ink to appear on the T-shirt. A silkscreen is - a wooden or aluminium frame with a fine nylon mesh stretched over it. Over this frame you tightly stretch a piece of sheer fabric (originally silk, now polyester). In the traditional silk-screening approach, you start with a square wooden frame about the size of a T-shirt. On the other hand, you would be really lucky to print one T-shirt every five minutes - the machine is also going to cost a lot more, and you will have to do each one by hand! The design attaches with paper tape to the silk on. Anyone can buy a laser printer or an inkjet printer for a couple hundred dollars and print on paper all day long at rates up to 10 sheets a minute. Aerial perspective by Frans Koppelaar, Landscape near Bologna, 2001 distant objects are lighter, of lower contrast, and bluer than nearer objects. Screeners without any artistic flair purchase precut paper designs and attach the stencil to the silk screen. When you think about it, it is amazing how easy it is today to print on a sheet of paper, and how hard it is to print on cloth. Printing on paper is much easier than printing on a T-shirt.

Silkscreen technique