Printing with HousePaint Rocks

[mono_666]

How important is the floetrol? And I gather that Latex is the way to go. I ran out of ink, and cant wait for deisel to send me some, so off to home depot today.

Any more suggestions would be most appreciated

[naduval]

go to sherwin williams, buy the color you want, dump it in your screen and print. Just be sure to flood entirely after each pull and you'll be good. I have never done anything BUT that and it works fine for me.

[naduval]

Originally Posted by printmafia-connie

No we use latex flat - Behr is the brand from Home Depot.

I am intrigued by Nate saying semi-gloss straight from the can works fine for him. I think if I mention this to Jim he will become all "screen protector guy" and not want to try it but we may have to since Nate's posters seem a bit smoother than ours.

I actually use matte 99% of the time. We print fast, and use nothing added to the ink at all. Just sherwin williams interior flat paint, mixed to the color I want. It dries to the touch as soon as you pull it off the press so you dont need a rack or anything either.

Ocassionally it dries up a little, but since its water based, all you do is wet a rag and wipe out the clogged areas under the screen, pull a few tests until it is back to normal, then continue.

[naduval]

Originally Posted by Pedini

How much does mesh count matter? The screens I'm using are 195 tpi.

I'll try the pure paint Nate, I can always add retarder if I have trouble.

we normally use 230 280 or 305.

[seriplop]

we use it straight from the can now and get better results than when we used retarder.

[peter cardoso]

With all my years of printing I've never actually used house paint to screen-print with. I would like to start to experiment with it a bit. I have read some of the other threads and it seems helpful. But I was specifically thinking about some bright pop colors on Black paper. I'm never really 100% happy with speedball screen-print colors on black paper so I'd like to try house paint to see if it works better. Has anyone tried this? Any suggestions?

[seriplop]

dunno , we only print on white paper with VERY transparent colors

[mono_666]

Ive tried to print on black paper with both red and yellow housepaint, but it was rather transparent

[mile44]

so, no floetrol/retarder works fine as well?
Gotta try this myself.

-D-

[mono_666]

for me it did