[General] Screen Printing Class

[Rick Nelson]

Is there a chance of another Beginner class?  My wife and I wanted to
attend, but this was the weekend before school starts and we were both
too busy.

Rick Nelson


On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Brian Walker<misterworld at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we had a good time Saturday, and I really appreciate everybody's
> enthusiasm, you all asked a lot of great questions.  I'm sorry our
> fax-printer couldn't generate transparancies that we needed to make it all
> come together, but Scott has offered to print stuff for us at no charge.  So
> when you get your image ready, you can email it to Scott.d.morales at nasa.gov
> .
>
> Since most of you are working digitally, I have a few pieces of advice.
> Your stencil should be all black - grays will print straight black and tone
> shift is hard to work with (especially for beginners!) so I'd stick to one
> color for now.  It doesn't matter what color the final image is, the stencil
> needs to be printed straight black.  Also, the images need to be less than
> 8.5 x 11 inches, since that's the size of our transparency.  If you can, try
> to keep your image high resolution, about 200 dpi.  If you're not sure how
> to do that with your image software, ask me and I'll show you.  There are a
> lot of fun options if you want to make an image by hand too, so if you want
> to try it I can certainly show you how.
>
> I'd like to do another session to go over the exposure process (with good
> transparencies so it works this time ^_^) and we can discuss printing.  I
> know Nykodemus is going to be out of town this weekend, so maybe Thursday
> would be good?  I'll be stopping by the shop in the next day or so to
> re-coat screens so we can pick up right where we left off Saturday.
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