Thursday, July 23, 2009

RIOT INK: First shirt design


Travis and I have started silk screening. I made a quick design and went through the process last night. We ran around a bit looking for some transparent paper and found some at Hobby Lobby. Once we get the design ready we printed it on the transparency. It didnt look to hot so we decided to run it through again on a different setting. We both figured we'd get a ghosted image but it actually turned out nice. Only the bottom portion was off a tad. Next we burned it into a screen. Travis had already applied some emulsion to a screen and it was ready to go. We got everything ready and hit the light. We let it expose for about 20 minutes. Once it was good and burned in we hit it with the hose (Travis had just got a new fireman nozzle) and Travis said that was the best rinse his had yet. We put the screen in front of a fan and let it sit for a while.
Well now it was time to see how she'd do. Ran a tester and it seemed to turn out pretty nice. We through a shirt it and went for it. As you can tell in the image it turned out pretty nice!
We printed 2 shirts. The black one has some cool experimental dual ink usage. We are currently thinking of a company name and are hot on working on our next shirt. We also are searching for a 4 color screen system.

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