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kai_nguyen•1h ago

Tried using mayo as a screen filler on a whim, and the print held up for 15 washes

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saraho48•2d ago

Guy at the craft store in Boise said my emulsion was fine and it was my scoop coater angle the whole time

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amy_cooper31•2d ago

Am I the only one whose first screen printing teacher was a 70 year old guy at a flea market in Ohio?

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paigeharris•2d ago

Hot take: I put a $3 kitchen sponge under the screen instead of foam and my prints came out cleaner

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paul_stone29•4d ago

PSA: I burned a $30 screen because I left the emulsion in the sun for 40 seconds too long

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wright.sam•6d ago

My emulsion coat went from lumpy mess to smooth in 3 tries after I switched to a $9 squeegee

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murray.cole•7d ago

Dropped $85 on a 110 mesh screen pack and half of them came with pinholes already

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dixon.ryan•8d ago

My uncle said you can skip degreasing the screen if you use water based ink, and I just ruined 6 shirts learning he was dead wrong

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the_viola•9d ago

I figured plastic squeegees from the hardware store were a scam until the 50 cent one outlasted my $18 Speedball

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jenkins.wade•11d ago

Nearly tossed my old wooden squeegees after a bad run in 2017, but a guy at the Columbus print swap told me to just sand the edges

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finleyprice•12d ago

Hot take: speedball's $12 squeegee is better than the $40 one everyone pushes

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noah838•13d ago

Told my buddy I'd skip the degreaser and just use dish soap on my screens, and now there's a permanent ghost image of a taco on my favorite frame

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paulperez•13d ago

My neighbor watched me burn through 3 screens on one poster run and asked why I was flooding the ink like I was painting a fence

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kimm52•14d ago

Watched a guy at the Portland Saturday Market pull 40 shirts with a $12 squeegee and a screen he built from a window frame, and I'm never buying a kit again

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angela_shah8•15d ago

Vent: watched a guy at the Mesa library peel a dried screen with his fingernail and crack the whole mesh

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