Details
Screen Printing Equipment:
- Screen(s)
- Squeegees
- Screen clamp/air bed
- Spray booth for washing screens (with back light)
- Drying cupboard for screens
Consumables
- Ink
- Paper
- Photo emulsion + sensitiser
- Degreaser
- Brown tape
Condition Notes
eg. New, 2nd hand, loaned. Any damage?
Induction and Training
No induction is needed for screen printing.
Maintainers
Risk Assessment
Identify risks
State control measures
How to Screen Print:
This dude explains it all in 15 min!
PREP:
- Coat screen in photo emulsion in a red light room
- Wait for screen to dry (use drying cabinet to accelerate, if available).
- Print out a positive, transparency film with design on it
- Lay positive onto UV exposure unit with dried unexposed screen,.
- Expose.
- Wash out unhardened photo emulsion with warm water from an electric power shower (mildly pressured) in front of a waterproof light box
- Dry again in another drying cabinet or wait for it to dry naturally
- Use brown tape to block out any unwanted areas of the screen that are not coated with photo emulsion
- Mount screen into frame
- Put a bead of ink along one edge, and float the screen
- Use newsprint to do a test to get it going
- Use a piece of plastic fixed to the bed to find the position of the print on the bed for alignment with the paper
- Use masking tape to mark corners
REPEAT:
a. Locate paper on masking tape registration corners
b. Drop the screen onto the bed
c. Pull once/twice hard towards you
d. Lift screen
e. Flood back the screen to prevent drying
f. Place paper in drying rack
WRAP UP:
- Wash screen with pressure washer to blast out all the ink and photo emulsion
- Dry screen ready for reuse.
NOTE:
- If the screen starts to dry you can have Mr Muscle on hand to keep the screen moist (not sure why this and now something else)
- Don’t let the screen dry with ink in it, or the holes in an air suction table.
- The process for t-shirts requires a heat curing thingy and paper and ideally a t-shirt shaped bed for alignment and hold down.