Mina Prints

Materials: A solid black design printed in transparency paper. Photo emulsion and sensitizer. A screen slightly bigger than the image you want to print. Screen printing ink A squeegee A scoop coater A spoon Something to print on (A3 cardboard or thick paper) Scotch tape A rag to clean The design: The most important stage of screen printing is to make sure the images must be printed solid black to block the light properly. The design was for a small booklet portfolio for illustrations (2 joint illustrations and 3 individual illustrations per person). Once we settled on the design, we printed out on a laser printer onto transparency paper. Step 1: Prepare the emulsion in a dark room. From his point on, all light source must come for a red lightbulb. Mix the sensitizer and the emulsion together according to the directions on the bottle. Step 2: Pour a little of the emulsion mixture on the scoop coater and spread it out on the screen until coated and you can’t see ...

Necessary Materials: An image that doesn’t have too much fine detail. In this case, the deck of cards with the suit that was assigned to the group: Clubs. Acetate sheets A scalpel A cutting board or a hard surface you don’t mind being sliced repeatedly by a scalpel A screen slightly bigger than the image you want to print Screen printing ink A squeegee A spoon Something to print on (A3 cardboard or thick paper) Tape or scotch tape A rag to clean The design: Create a design with bold shapes that you can cut out with a scalpel. We found it easiest to create designs with the goal of printing them with paper stencils rather than altering pre-existing more complex designs. We were assigned the Clubs deck of cards, so we designed all 14 cards, including the Joker. Step 1: Draw your design onto a paper at the size you want to print it. To make sure we got the scale right for the A3 cardboard, we decided to split the 14 cards into 4 pages A4 size. This way we could h...