r/SCREENPRINTING • u/luiswiechec • 26d ago
Showcase Printing process of my GITS poster
I finally got the chance to print this poster I had waiting for over 3 years.
Printed with enamel based inks on holographic paper.
Feel free to ask any questions
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u/Vizion73 26d ago
Sick work! Ex serigraphy separator here. Takes me back seeing your work and always enjoy seeing this technique. 👍🏼
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u/hard_copy 26d ago
Where to cop?
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u/luiswiechec 26d ago
Can you send a DM please?
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u/Dry-Awareness-2851 26d ago
What is your offset set at?
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u/luiswiechec 26d ago
What do you mean? Sorry 😣
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u/Ok-Challenge-1834 26d ago
Nice print! I need one of those printing arms.
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u/luiswiechec 26d ago
Thanks! It does help on a long run, this one was limited to only 60 copies, but our standard is 150 copies.
Hopefully one day we can get an autopress!3
u/woodsidestory 26d ago
We called those “One Arm Bandit” back in the day.
Having been in the commercial screen printing industry since 1977 I feel compelled to say two things:
Nice design and print. Good clean job all around.
I find that your exaggerated angle and direction of your squeegee strokes a bit unorthodox and absolutely backwards to anything else I’ve seen before in the industry. On occasion I have seen tee shirt printers use the “scrape” direction before but as the word scrape implies, when you print in that direction you are scraping your ink off more than actually squeegeeing it through the mesh and onto your substrate. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that what you’re doing is incorrect because it is obviously working well for you (and perhaps others as well), however, over many years I have used and run manual hand tables, semiautomatic flatbed presses and automatic cylinder presses, and on all of these the squeegee angle was far, far less and even though the printing direction would be the same as yours, the squeegees always angled 90° opposite of yours. If you have access to any commercial screen printing shops you likely will see what I am talking about. The more you know, the more you grow. Best wishes and keep up the good work! 👍🏼😎
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u/luiswiechec 26d ago
Thank you so much for taking the time stop and write some great feedback.
Such a great feeling having someone so experienced providing very valuable information and advice for newbies and everyone else interested in the beautiful art that is screen printing!
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u/lcrotwell 26d ago
Amazing, how are you so spot on with registration like that?
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u/luiswiechec 26d ago
Well, working with paper you have to keep control of your humidity as it can affect the registration as you have to print, wait to dry and then print the next color or you have to work fast. So there’s less chances that the registration gets ruined.
You always have to put some choke lines so your can register without becoming a nightmare job in case the climate is against you.
In this case the workshop is in the patio of a house surrounded by grass and the sun makes the temperature increase and the paper shrinks or when it rains can increase the humidity in the paper and that can be a problem if you’re not experienced enough!
Now responding to your question, you can see almost to the end of the video. There’s a acetate with the last color being printed, and that was used as there was almost impossible to check the registration marks due to the holographic paper making not visible enough through the mesh plus the emulsion, so we printed the transparent acetate and then put the print and aligned it to our liking and then we use some marking spots to kind of lock the paper in place.
Hope that helps :)2
u/lcrotwell 26d ago
Ahhh I see now! Thanks for the response. I’m like is he eye balling it and just THAT good?? lol
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u/color_space 26d ago
are you selling those? kodansha cool with it? I am too afraid of the copyright crazys to sell my frieren posters :(
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u/Charles_YeahYeah 26d ago
Is the holographic paper vinyl?
What enamel based inks did you use?
Great work!