It leaves the mesh soft and smooth for the next personalisation with screen printing ink.

It makes it easy to print designs on the screen.

You must apply a thin layer on both sides of the mesh.

If you'd like to check out my etsy store or blog, please do.More information about the Murakami screen printing emulsion Let me know if you have any questions or comments. You should also place a piece of scrap fabric/paper between the shirt so the ink doesn't bleed through to the other side. Make sure you place a piece of scrap fabric on top of the design so the iron isn't in direct contact with the shirt. To heat-set fabric, you can throw your fabric into the dryer on high heat for 10 minutes, or iron both sides of design for 3-5 minutes per side. Allow your fabric to dry for a day or 2 before heat-setting. * Heat-setting: If you are printing on fabric, you should heat-set your fabric so that your design does not fade on your fabric. This will distribute ink into the screen holes so the ink doesn't dry up too quickly.To clean up, simply scrape excess ink off screen with squeegie and rinse screen. To flood the screen, drag ink across screen using your squeegie WITHOUT applying pressure.

to screen print your design anywhere you like! You can print for around 15-20 minutes at a time, making sure the ink doesn't dry in the screen by 'flooding' the screen between prints. Repeat Step 8 using other materials, papers, shirts, etc. * Note: Remember how I recommended leaving 1' around the border of your design? This is why: you need to have some room to tape & hold the screen when you apply the ink, so that you don't get ink on your shirt! This screen only has about 1/2' around the border, which made it a little difficult. Once you have made a satisfactory test print. Hold top of screen in place with one hand, and using your squeegie at a 45 degree angle, drag squeegie from top to bottom of screen using pressure. Spoon a couple tablespoons of screen-printing ink on to top of screen. Tape screen to the test material on one or two sides of the screen. Spray the bottom of your screen with temporary adhesive or stencil spray if possible (not included in kit) and then place screen on top of your test paper or fabric. If you burned more than one design on your screen, you can cut the designs apart now or just block any areas of the design that you do not want to print at this time by placing masking tape on top of those areas (on the non-emulsion side).

You are now finished making your screen! Now it's time to test it. If you'd like to see some finished products or view my other tutorials, check out my etsy shop & blog, or follow me on twitter! Also, your constructive feedback on this tutorial is greatly appreciated! Thanks for looking and happy screen-printing! Any questions? Message me! Here's a quick tutorial for those of you interested! It's simple, fast, and you can get pretty good detail with this product. I purchased a kit and was pretty happy with the way it turned out. You can buy the screens by themselves, but if it's your first time using it, you can buy a kit that includes everything you need. PhotoEZ is a screen-printing paper with emulsion on one side that allows you to quickly burn your design onto a screen without a lot of equipment or chemicals. This screen-printing option is great because you don't need a screen-printing frame or fancy chemicals all you need is the kit, tap water and a sunny day! You can quickly screen-print your own detailed designs onto a shirt in your home with the PhotoEZ screen-printing kit.

Large photo emulsion screen printing