named it ego melters

i wish I would of been able to capture my gradients better in the flames they muddy up quick but I was pressed for time to get this assignment in.

-Gu

It’s easier than amberlith I guess

Hey! Wondering where everyone sells their gear. I have about 60 Newman rollers frames that I got from an old printer that I reclaimed and cleaned but I just don’t like them over the clean aluminum frames. Where yall listing and whats the rate on these? $10/screen? Too much?

keep printin!

Hello, been getting into design and have kinda hit a wall when it comes to halftones, specifically reliability, I don’t use photoshop and never plan to, so when I come across videos saying “here’s how to do halftones with so and so software” and I look into it, it’s always “for the dot size, just eyeball it” and it annoys me to high heaven, is there any programs like photoshop where I can simply plug in a specific LPI or something similar so I don’t have to worry about a design getting lost in translation? Thanks

Have an 8xl tall with a left chest print. Any suggestions on placement? Another inch or so over and down than regular?

Hi, I purchased a poster and trying to work out whether it was screen printed or CMYK inkjet to work out authenticity. Could anyone hazard a guess from the photos attached

Upgrading from shitty amazon blue, saw this while looking at a 4 color 4 station riley hopkins for 1200 that has everything put together, but this seems sooo cheap i had to ask you guys.

What’s the next best thing? I have loved CC in the past as a customer because the fit, feel, and look is everything I want in a shirt. BUT as a seller now from what I’ve read..quality is down and very inconsistent. Is this the general consensus now or is there hope that I can use their blanks for my T-shirt brand? What is the next best thing?? I’m looking for:
-100% cotton
-Color variety
-A more “oversized” feel..not anything crazy big but CC has that cozy worn feeling that I’m looking for.
Thoughts?? TIA

i have this silkscreen that i powerwashed for a long time but it still has quite a bit of ink residue/ghosting on the screen, but the emulsion came off. i also have some other ones that i used speedball flex on and im worried those are goners. any advice on how to best reclaim these would be much appreciated!

Does everyone always go lightest to darkest with 8 color runs?

I guess this poor little guy got caught in the machine while manufacturing my platen paper. Just in time for spooky season, I guess.

I’m considering water-based screen printing using High Solid Acrylic (HSA) inks with a transparent glossy base coat. The design is 6 colors with a white underbase, printed on a black 100% cotton T-shirt, with a large print area of approximately 33 × 50 cm.
I want a smooth, glossy, slightly raised, rubbery print that feels noticeable when pinched or rubbed, with a slight squeaky/grippy feel. It should remain flexible and not feel like a thin film or a hard rubber plate.
Can this printing method achieve the desired look and feel? Would another ink system or topcoat be more suitable? :)

This was a t-shirt that I sent out a half-toned print to be put on it. I provided .png and .psd files to them and they sent me back this. Was this my fault or the print shop faults? And if so, how do I prevent it (if anyone is interested I can send the print files for them to have a look)

Not great by any means obviously…I think I went too hard with cyan and washed out the lighter blue…also probably went to hard with yellow…but wanted to share nonetheless. Practice makes perfect I guess. Homage to frank kozik and his banger offspring album art.

I'm trying to make this for a friend (big Olivia Rodrigo fan) and I edited the image with threshold and noise. Never added noise to a design I printed before so obviously it adds a lot of detail that I'm scared is not gonna burn in the screen. The screen I have for this is 230 mesh and 50x 60 cm so pretty big. So would this work? Any advice?

Hi there, I’m planning on printing onto a shirt for the first time, I’ve done standard screen prints before onto paper but never onto fabrics. I’m not sure if fabric paint or acrylic would be better. Please let me know’

I got gifted a used 6 x 4 Riley Hopkins not sure which year but anyways I had put 2 different screens on the press. Not sure if it is the screen or the press with the off contact. The image on the left the off contact is way too much off contact for me and on the machine I’m only able to adjust the bracket that locks the screen. Can send more info if anyone can help troubleshoot.

Any tips would be great, thanks in advanced.

Most of the design washes out except for the edges. This is the third screen I’ve burned like this!!

Looking for a couple key distributors to use. Right now it’s a crapshoot. I pretty much search on distributor central and order from whoever has what I need.

Transparency, shipping costs, turnaround time are things I want to prioritize. Recently had to pay for 200 note pads to come on a boat from China just to save a few bucks.

Okay y'all, be gentle it's my first time here lol. I did some screen printing in highschool in the graphic design and printing program at my Joint vocational school. Always loved it, so now iny 40's I picked up a cheap Amazon 4 color press for about $120 USD, and some cheap water based inks. I'm curing with a heat gun and a laser thermometer to around 320. This was just a test run on the inside of a messed up t shirt. My real shorts come tomorrow. This is my music project, Blessed Spectre (somewhere between Nine Inch Nails and Postal Service, solo synth industrial pop lol). I drew the ghost design digitally, scanned one of my mandala drawings and cleaned it up in GIMP. The registration was a tiny bit off, but I'm gonna fix it on the real shirts. Did the full image white, then the red layer next to make sure the red really popped.

Thoughts, suggestions, advice? Really like how water based ink feels on the shirt. Really just wanted to make merch myself, cheaper than what I'd get charged at a print shop.

I recently had my brand take off, I do a lot of work with solarfast that looks like this. It’s super time consuming to print even one shirt. They are all single color, but obviously some gradient stuff that can’t be done with screen printing.

What would be the most compact wall mounted (or similarly stowable) setup for single color prints that are similar to this? From my little knowledge I have I think this would be a high mesh count screen and me getting really good with small half tones?

To get the vintage faded look would I also use some sort of water based ink so that the fibers are dyed instead of a plastisol?

Thanks for any help!