I coated a couple of screen print frames today and noticed there were a couple already coated in the drying box. Are these anybody’s? Feel like they’ve been there a while, I’m hoping to print some of the t-shirts and tea towels next week and just a heads up if they’re still there I’m going to use them. In other news, we’re out of emulsion for the mo but I’ve ordered some more which will arrive in a few days.
We have also been kingly gifted a metric tonne of beautiful printmaking paper courtesy of @scday94 - thanks for arranging this for us
Wanted to give notice that the wooden planning chest of drawers are for screen printing equipment, and I’ll be removing the items currently in the bottom drawers soon to store paper in.
I had my first go with the textiles area this evening and finished the work @Nicky_mmnn kindly started sewing the black out fabric for our nlarger drying box. We’re now just missing a sheet of plywood to fit in the bottom and make it properly lightproof, along with a tower fan to speed up the drying substantially, and we’ll be able to run a little more smooth.
There are genuinely hundreds of sheets, they ain’t going anywhere anytime soon but yeah of course! Didn’t catch the name of the branding but looks fancy
Ok would be good to find out as I know they sell un-sized and sized paper for fine art printing. I mentioned that it is mainly for screen printing but but they might have sent a range. Also they have a hand laid paper that will is specified long grain or short grain so good for book binding if they sent that too.
Lots of different weights in all their papers too.
Amazing, there are some in booklets and some in larger teams but didn’t take the name I’m afraid. Probably won’t be in till next week at this point so if it’s getting in the way feel free to pop it under the black prep table in the messy room anyone!
I’ve been temporarily storing my weird computer things in one of those wooden chest drawers you mentioned - let me know if you want it to go live elsewhere!
I’d recommend a rule about using a project tag on screens with member name and use-by date - I know Nick ran into this the other day with a mystery screen.
Currently looking into online booking systems but @metallois had a great and simple idea of using masking tape with a start and end date, and user name on this side yeah.
Yeah I would keep it simple, and know that like project storage there will always be expired ones. For your own sanity, just reclaim them and set that expectation - don’t spend all your time chasing people to confirm…
Hiya, I was in the space this morning for the woodwork induction. I took a photo of the paper types in the stack in the print room. There were quite a few packs of the hahnemuhle “harmony”. Hopefully this helps!
A lot of the small details printed really well which I’m happy about. Unsurprisingly, it is around the edges where the pressure wasn’t high enough to push the ink through the stencil. It’s a bit disappointing but not everything can work first time unfortunately!
The vacuum pump not working has caused some problems, as the small gap between the positive and the screen mesh blurs the lines a little meaning finer details will not wash out.
As we don’t currently have a scoop coating trough wide enough for A2 screens, I coated this in two passes. This ended with some parts of the mesh having a different amount of emulsion in, and I realise now that this effects the correct exposure time.
I’d like to try some different stencil remover chemicals because the one I ordered previously from Flat Fox costs £18.50 for 1L and has clogged up three different spray bottles. I have found a cheaper version that costs £5 for 1L which would hopefully work just as well, though it is from Print Club in Dalston. Are any members nearby able to pick up a collection order to bring into the space perhaps?
Currently we are also out of emulsion and stencil remover. If someone can collect from Print Club I’ll get this ordered today, otherwise I’ll order from Flat Fox again.
If anybody has any of the following items to donate or sell for cheap, please let me know:
@danielbenton tore it down yesterday and found the fan was hitting the shroud, probably causing it to get stuck on startup. We put it back together, but not it doesn’t suck, or doesn’t suck like it used to anyways, so he will take another crack at it. If we can’t get it working we will replace it… so, it’s a work in progress, hopefully some resolution soon!
