Adventures in Screenprinting - Episode 3: Everything Arrived!

Well, it's about a week since I ordered all my supplies and I'm happy to report that everything arrived - although not everything arrived safely.

the paper and the ink arrived on the same day -





but, the paper had some damage to the corner...


it's OK though, I am going to cut that portion off - I can get three posters out of one sheet with about 4" at the bottom and on one side that is excess...I still wasn't happy about the damage. other than that, the paper is beautiful. Lovely French Speckletone White - I would have gone for another color, but, the white will really work best with what I'm doing.

The other supplies didn't arrive until Tuesday - so, I had to wait, and waste a nice long weekend. Oh well.


All this stuff arrived in one huge box, with a TON of packing peanuts. Seriously, I thought I was missing stuff because I couldn't find things lost in the packing peanuts. I hate those things.

So, now I have everything...I also went to Kinko's yesterday to get transparencies made of the artwork. They couldn't print a big transparency, so I had to settle for tiling on 8.5"x11" sheets. But, of course, they didn't follow my directions and forgot the overlap. So, I had to call them and tell them to do it again, the right way...which meant another trip out to pick them up. I'm just glad I didn't have to argue with them about charging me.

It took forever to piece the transparencies together

(don't want to show you too much of the image just yet)

I hope it works...If anyone knows where I can print big transparencies, please let me know.

Next episode...how do you use a scoopcoater?