April 19th, 2007, 06:32 PM
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Re: need advise/help on screen printing set-up
You have a good start with knowledge of lithography and graphic art. Your going to be printing in your home, so I would look on this site for something like a printa 770. It is a compact set up for when space just aint there. Sometimes a one color printer shows up, mostly they are four to six color printers. That's something to think about if you want to expand into multi-color prints later on. Get it now and save.
Your also going to need an exposure unit and a flash dryer. A drying rack for screens, a dark room to store them in and a place to wash them out.
E-bay has been selling alot of one color printers and flash dryers pretty cheap, but, that might be what they are, cheap. So be careful there.
Do you have a separation printer for your artwork? A good laser printer is Gcc Technologies 40/600. It prints 13 X 18 and one half inches. Thats a big enough image to do what ever you want. You mentioned sharp edged artwork...this is the printer for that, plus half-tones that will fool the best of eyes. All you need with it is clear polyester film.
Epson also makes a couple of ink-jet printers that will print large format as well. Only you will need special ink and transparency film. Also a "Rip" program to go with it.
You can use a regular sized printer to do your artwork on, but you will need to cut and piece large pieces of artwork. Just make sure the cuts are black so light can't get through.
Hope this little bit of info helps...any more questions can be answered as well. Just be specific on what you want, and someone will help as best they can. Broad questions can only be answered in a broad way. That would take, quite a while.
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