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laser printing onto silkscreen material

2007-11-20 by Gus S Calabrese

I apologize for causing problems with linking.
( Although it is not obvious that there would be a linking problem )

Silkscreening means putting a mask on a silkscreen and squeezing ink
through it to reproduce an image.
If I can somehow use a laser to print to the screen and then I squeeze
ink through the screen  .... am I not silkscreening *

Gus Calabrese

On Nov 20, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Steve wrote:

Please don't start a thread by responding to another thread. Somehow
Yahoogroups links it in the old thread, even though you have changed
the subject line and erased the old message. Presumably some header is
still there.

Anyway.... That isn't how silkscreening works. You print a photomask,
usually onto vellum because it works better than using transparencies.
Then expose the screen under it, and wash out.

You will have to find some very fine screen to do this. Standard
screen for screenprinting is fairly coarse.

Steve Greenfield

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