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Thanks for the input.

Any opinions on single point light source versus multi tube when it comes to detail and undercutting?

The ink I'll be using will be water based. I have speedball on hand right now, but may well explore other inks in the future.

I'm looking at one color right now, and part of the question involves...

The main issue is with moire patterns.

this can be mitigated with the angle choice on the bitmap conversion; I finally came up with 19 degrees for 75 lpi on a Ryonet 305 screen, using a cross...

In reading about getting good half tone results, I see people disparaging the photoshop half tone filter.

I assume that they are referring to the process that I have been using, which involves...

In printing on fabric, my understanding is that you use 100-110m mesh for white ink, and about 156 mesh for black ink.

I don’t have information on correct mesh size other colors of inks at this...

I wasn't able to track down any information about catalysts; any would be appreciated.

However, I did find a heat press, the Geo Knight DK 20a, that has a hover feature in which the heat platen...

I have had good luck using blue painters tape. It is designed to be sticky enough to adhere to things, but also to peel away leaving the surface it was attached to undamaged.

I take a small strip,...

I’ll look into the catalysts.

If I weren’t using catalysts, from the partial cure/heat press answer, I’m guessing that a combination of 1) air dry 2) dryer on high, and then 3) heat press might...

I am considering printing one color t shirts (also sweat shirts, totes, and lingerie) using acrylic ink, and am wondering about curing techniques.

In the community shop I work out of, people use...

Up til now, I've only printed one color.

However, I will be going to multiple colors at some point.

though I have a standard set of pins and tabs, I recently saw someone printing with smaller...

Our print shop acquired a hp designjet 800ps some time agoi,

The idea was to be able to make our own, affordable, large transparancies.

The film that was first tried had a pebble type surface,...

At the community print shop I work at, we have used Ulano QLT for the two years I have been there. The new manager just ordered a different brand of emulsion Lawson SBQ 501.

She says that she...

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I’m just trying to find a reasonably inexpensive meter to measure the amount of exposure that my screens are getting.

The print shop I work out of has some sort of light table, not...

I'm just a beginner, still stuck in Speedball as well, and I have a lot of it to get through. But someone I know through the print shop I use, and is regarded as a very good printer, uses a...

The reason that I'm thinking single point light source is that it has been suggested that with a bed full of lights, light may be coming in at an angle, thereby getting behind some of the smaller...

The emulsion that is used in the shop is ULANO QLT.

I have been coating one side because that is what I was taught there. I did read about, and inquire at the shop about coating both sides, and...

than I can find)

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I've been learning silkscreening at a community print shop, and practicing since October.

The shop uses a rack of florescent lights under glass.

I stumbled across the...