Saving Your Silkscreen for Future Printing

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AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so now's the scary part we're going to open up a jar of the ink, the fabric screen printing ink. And it is ink which means it's messy, it stains, it's supposed to be permanent on fabric so therefore if you get it on your clothes it's not that easy to get out. And similar to the glue we used, you know, it's a water soluble ink when it's wet but once it dries, forget about it, you're done. And so there's a couple of things that that means, it means that you know, while it's wet you can work with it you can push it around you know, it's not like using spray paint that like when once it's down it's down. I mean you can--there's a little bit of wiggle room there but one important thing is that, you know while you're screening shirts you don't want the ink to dry in the part of the screen that you know that you're printing through, right? That is you don't want the ink to dry within those little pores that you're printing 'cause once it does it just won't print well anymore. So part of the strategy is, is to always keep only wet ink within that--within the image. So, for example, before we print the first thing we're going to do is you know open up our ink, we're going to put it on the screen, I'll show you how that's done. And then just right away we're just going to go ahead and probably pull one across and just get some ink in that screen and then before we print another one we just want to probably put some ink on them again right away. Maybe with the screen off of the shirt so we're not printing on anything at that moment but my only point is you want--you really don't want the ink in the image to dry out if you're going to continue to print because once it does it really--you won't be able to force further ink through those holes if you have ink drying into it. So all right, I'm going to--I have my jar of ink open it's really kind of goopy, sloppy stuff. I mean, it's not like the kinda ink you would use with the quill pen. I mean, it does kinda look like a real goopy paint. okay. And remember be careful with this 'cause it'll just--I mean it's a messy stuff so I'm going to--in the next clip I'm going to put some of these on the screen and we'll try and pull a print.

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