How to make screens for screen printing at home?

Screen printing is the silk fabric, synthetic fabric or metal mesh stretched in the frame, the use of hand-carved paint film or photochemical plate making screen printing screen. Screen printing screen printing screen is the use of light-sensitive emulsion and liquid (ammonium dichromate solution), screen printing screen printing is the starting point of the screen printing, in the production process need to be cautious. So how to make screens for screen printing at home? Making screens for screen printing at home should pay attention to?

How to make screens for screen printing at home:

1, making screen printing screen Sensitive emulsion and the sensitized liquid by 10: 1 weight down in the glue solution. Then slowly stir, so that the two liquids mixed so far. At the same time be careful not to operate in bright light, otherwise it lost its effectiveness.

2, sensitive emulsion adjusted, slightly tilted the emulsion will flow to the mesh cloth, scraped up hard, straight scratch until the top of the mesh. Make it spread evenly on the mesh.

3, and then use the same method to paint the emulsion on both sides of the frame once, and then use the hair dryer hot air dry.

4, Screen drying immediately after the photosensitive copy, so as not to all the light, the light can be 200W indoor lighting gun, or two 20W fluorescent lamp, the screen flat on the light below, The film is placed on the screen upwards, and then covered with glass and pressed with two iron clips on both left and right, the appropriate distance of light to the screen is 20cm-30cm. Sensitive time is about eight to ten minutes.

5, screen printing screen after the light, washed with water or sponge light rub, flushing water pressure to be moderate, not too strong, do not break the mesh. The red version should pay attention to the original black version on the screen to wash away the black part of the water, while the white transparent part of the formation of dura mater firmly dipped in the mesh, until the pattern can be clearly stopped.

6, screens for screen printing out of water after the pattern, and then covered with a dry cloth in the upper and lower sides of the screen to dry the water. Let the screen dry or dry with a hair dryer. This completes the plate making screens for screen printing.

7, screen printing screen version is good, will be printed on the screen below the article, a good location, the ink fell on the screen within the box, the right hand to take plastic scraper, with a slope of 50 ° to 70 °, Scratch hard down to the past, pay attention to the average power, the pattern will be very clearly printed on what you need.

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