How Do You Print A Single-Color Silk Screen?
You’ve made a silk-screen frame, stretched and prepped your silk screen, prepared your art and built a simple printing unit. Congratulations! You’re finally ready to print. Get your paper or other material ready. Clamp the silk screen to your printing unit, well side up. Raise the silk screen and prop it up using a leg prop or brick. Cut a clear piece of acetate to the size of the open area of the screen. Tape it to one side of the printing unit so that it can be lifted and flipped off the unit as needed. Mix your ink well, making sure you’ve included at least 10 percent clear extender (either flat or glossy) and one capful of drying retardant for each 8 oz. ink. Stand at the open side of the silk screen. Pour a generous amount of ink into the low side of the silk-screen well and below the image. Pour a thick bead of ink onto the screen above the image (so that the image is framed in two lines of ink, with the lower line thicker than the upper). Hold the squeegee at a 45-degree angle w
