My friend is running for state senate, and asked if we could make some shirts, so last weekend I used the to make a screen on the xtool screen / frame that I got (i never bought the xtool laser but this screen mechanism is just awesome. Hand making wooden screens and stapling the tar out of them made my resistance to starting a screenprint very high)
they came out great, but I didn’t let them dry overnight and tossed them in the oven wet at 310F for 4 min rotating at 2 min, which usually works great and did dry them, but my shirt bled a little in the wash. When it air dries overnight that recipe has lead to colours that don’t bleed.
And the person in the photo is the legendary Bobby Silva.
I don’t make large quantities, usually just a few shirts here and there, I haven’t tried to reclaim any of these screens yet but it’s theoretically possible. I could just hit it with some spray paint I guess. I don’t have the enthusiasm to do more than a few!
I honestly have never tried the iron on laserable stuff, mainly because of my distaste for iron on shirts from the 80s. But maybe the technology has changed!
How would you make a screen print on the 3-D printer?
For the laser you could either make a wooden frame or pick up a frame for this purpose and get some metal mesh and paint it, then laser off the paint from the mesh. There was a separate thread on it and I tried it but I never had used that metal mesh to screen print because of the xtool screen that I picked up that worked great.
I was thinking of making the frame on the 3D, and maybe the mesh? I know you can get pretty tight with that. But since I don’t know anything about screen printing, I have no idea how any of it works. I do need to figure it out though, because there’s a shirt I want to make for my husband, something he suggested a couple years ago!
I agree with iron-on. I absolutely hate the thicker stuff and the way it cracks when it gets old. I think I used some OTC iron-on on my little aprons we wore at craft fairs, but since it wasn’t on shirts, it was fine. I haven’t tried the laser stuff yet. I don’t even know if I have any.
Look what just popped up when I was looking at MakerWorld! I haven’t looked at it yet, getting ready to do that now. I was just so surprised since we’ve been discussing screen printing!
Gosh, that shirt came out perfect! Nice to see a use of that screen printing kit. One of the few (well, that and the Eufymake uv printer) that I have so far resisted the efforts of the various enablers on this forum to buy. Time will tell tho…
I didn’t buy the kit, just the frame and some screens. It probably would’ve been better if I bought everything but I wasn’t sure how cool it would be. It’s pretty cool.
to make a screen on the xtool screen / frame that I got (i never bought the xtool laser but this screen mechanism is just awesome. Hand making wooden screens and stapling the tar out of them made my resistance to starting a screenprint very high)
