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When you think of a great idea, there is no better way to share it than to wear it. However, without the expertise or tools requisite for printing your own shirts, great thoughts frequently never make it farther than your mind. There is a simplified process for creating your artwork in a format that will allow it to become wearable. Once your artwork is in the proper format, you can experiment with colors. Beginners should start out with single-color designs. Next you simply print the art onto transparency film, coat it with a light sensitive emulsion, tape it to a screen and expose it to an ultraviolet light source for about 15 to 30 minutes. At this point, the area where your transparency was taped will wash away from the screen. You are left with your image and an opening around it for ink to pass through onto your shirt. Now you need to align the screens and press, being careful to line up the image layers correctly. Take a stiff squeegee and with good pressure, pull the ink down the screen. It will pass through the open area, leaving the image on the shirt. You are almost done! The final step is to cure your ink with a heat source, such as a heat gun or flash dryer. Take a look at the infographic below for more detailed instructions.
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Thanks for providing step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow! Screen printing seems like such a fun project!
Thanks for the great details in how to do this. It would be fun to try.
I knew somone who used to Screen T-shirts for a living, and I watched him and he was very good. It would be awesome to make some of my own T-shirts silk screened! Thanks for the information-it is very helpful.