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Screen-Printing vs. Ink-jet
Searcher7:
Can you tell me how I can learn more about the process your boss used?
I need to do some research. :-)
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
Searcher7@mail.con2.com
neuromancer:
--- Quote from: Searcher7 on March 10, 2003, 10:41:06 pm ---Can you tell me how I can learn more about the process your boss used?
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He was a student at Clemson University, working under Sam Wang, who is still a fine arts professor there. My understanding of Sam is if you ask him what if, he will probably tell you to try it out, even if he knows what will happen.
Basically, you coat the screen with a photo sensitive material, sort of like coating paper for black and white print making. Then you expose the screen under an enlarger, which "fixes" the parts exposed to light, and you wash it off. He made his own emulsions with drugstore chemicals.
He would make posterized "separations" on Kodalith, and then make the prints. Sort of Warholish, but the process would be easiliy adaptable to any sort of separations, including 4 color process. Probably a book on Warhol's technique would tell you everything you need.
Obviously you need a black and white darkroom with a 4x5 enlarger and a big sink to get started.
Bob
PoDunkMoFo:
I assume you are talking about screen printing since you said he coated the screen? Screen printing would be far beyond what most people here would want to attempt. I'm sure your boss had access to equipment beyond what your average BYOAC would have. Don't forget you would have to make a screen for every color you wanted to print. Each color would have to be trapped and then registered together perfectly. Unless you want to take it up professionally I would not recommend attempting something like this.
neuromancer:
--- Quote from: PoDunkMoFo on March 13, 2003, 12:32:46 am ---I assume you are talking about screen printing since you said he coated the screen
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Yes, Searcher7 asked for more details about the process that my boss used for screen printing.
As I said, he was a fine arts student, so he had access to the University's various art labs, and the minimum setup would include a 4x5 darkroom. You are right that most BYOACers don't have that, but at least one of us does...
You should see when we test new color devices for gamut.
My boss is a very methodical, detail oriented, exhaust every possible combination, type of guy -- the results he got (with screens) are striking. You have to see it in person to appreciate it, but there's no way you could come close to what he has with any printer on the market today, or for the next 10 years, probably.
Bob
Searcher7:
I've been trying to find out more about screen-printing, but it appears that unless you go to school, you 'll find very little in the way of help or materials to learn about this method. All the books I've come across so far are from the 70s.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
Searcher7@mail.con2.com