Screen Printing Class: Shirts or Posters

Silk Screen Class

This is an introductory class to the process of screen printing. No previous experience is necessary as we will guide you through the entire process.

You will learn how to create film positives from art work that you have created in either Photoshop, illustrator or Corel Draw. Note it is beyond the scope of this class to cover the creation of artwork. The film positive is then exposed to a photo emulsion on a screen stretched to a frame. The image is processed to create a stencil of the artwork you created in reverse of the film positive. This class will teach you how to do spot colors limited to one color. These can be letters and images but no gradients or halftones. We will teach this technique in a future class. We will teach you in this workshop how to set up our 6 color press, prepare your ink and print on either t-shirts or posters. You can cure and dry your prints and you will have a nice product you can take home and the experience on how to do it yourself.

Note: We have to have your artwork sent to us 72 hours in advance of the class to check format and size for screen printing. So it will be ready when you attend.

After taking the class you can join our makerspace and continue to learn by creating more items. You can screen print on just about anything. We have monthly memberships that give you access to the equipment without having to spend thousands in setting up your own.

Our screen printing studio within our makerspace is comprehensive and filled with professional level equipment. Here is a partial list of what we have to offer:

Hopkins Convertible 6/6 screen printer press with micro's all heads down
WorkHorse Mach Screen Press 4/4 with micro's
Black Body flash dryer
Hix 36" x 10' 6 platen dryer for Plastisol, Waterbase or discharege printing
Complete dark room make screens in minutes & with high resolution:
Amerigraph Mercury vapor exposure unit 3000 watt
Olec Olite large exposure unit (72" x 48") 5000 watt
Newman Rollermaster 7700 frame tensioning table
M&R Daytona Automatic automatic Press (posters)
Drying rack
Washout booth
Epson Artisan 1430 film positive printer with all black inks
Reclamation dip tank
Drying cabinet
Geo Knight Heat Press
Stahl Hotronix Cap press
Practix dual station semi automatic heat press
Dye Sublimation

The class does not include the costs of shirts or poster prints. You can bring your own or we can provide them for you. Just let us know in advance what sizes and colors you will need.

T-shirts are our form of tribal art, serigraphs allow you to print on papers that you cannot run through many Giclée printers. This workshop is fun and informative come join us and learn how to print.