House Paints for Printing...A Process Thread

[seriplop]

nate -- we do cmyk with paints all the time

we just get our guy to put pure pigments in a neutural base , no white
works like a charm.
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if i were printing anything but my own stuff , i wouldn't waste my time with speedball , i'd go straight to tw which is 10000000x better

[seriplop]

we use mesh of 175 , 200 and 230 , depending on the detail level.

[naduval]

nate -- we do cmyk with paints all the time

we just get our guy to put pure pigments in a neutural base , no white
works like a charm.
'

if i were printing anything but my own stuff , i wouldn't waste my time with speedball , i'd go straight to tw which is 10000000x better

Ah, TW, that's what I meant to say!

Ya, I wouldn't try to open a screenprinting shop using only housepaint, but it serves my purpose great.

I will DEFINITELY have to check out what they can do for me for process colors next time I'm in the store. Thanks!

[RADAR]

mine are 280, the half tones are 40 lpi from a 200 dpi file.

i might need that giant bag of salt, looks like snow tonight.

[lil_tuffy]

I'm growing more and more frustrated with Speedball. The consistency of the ink has been varying so much from jar to jar it's ridiculous. Last week, I had a wonderful jar of black but I opened one today and it's so thin I can't flood on a 305 without it over-saturating. Sometimes, it's so gooey that I have to constantly scrape it off the squeegee.

[RADAR]

i opened a jar or medium red once and it was a brick.

[ImJustRickG]

if i were printing anything but my own stuff , i wouldn't waste my time with speedball , i'd go straight to tw which is 10000000x better

You missed a few zeros. Printing with TW is wonderful. Spendy, but just about perfect.

[fantasygoat]

With Speedball, it's all about mixing it with other brands.

Speedball black is crap, but Speedball + Nazdar is an excellent, scuff-free black.

I'm thinking I might try mixing the base clear with housepaint, see how that prints.

[RADAR]

i'm stoked to go get some process paints this week.

[crosshair]

I'm growing more and more frustrated with Speedball. The consistency of the ink has been varying so much from jar to jar it's ridiculous. Last week, I had a wonderful jar of black but I opened one today and it's so thin I can't flood on a 305 without it over-saturating. Sometimes, it's so gooey that I have to constantly scrape it off the squeegee.

you know what to do tuffy. the time has come.