CMYK four colour screen printing

To do this process I found required a lot of attention to detail, something I usually love being involved in, however I found this process very difficult to control.Because I wanted to get the process done all in one day I only made 4-5 copies of each colour. this meant that there was room for quite a few things to go wrong.

Factors:

Paint drying out

Cleaning the screen after each use of colour to keep everything tidy

Lining up the registration marks

Making sure the paint was evenly distributed.

Overall for a first attempt at cmyk i am very pleased with the outcome, this could be an avenue into printing my own photographs, for commercial use.

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examining the dot structure

effects of the dot structure make up

registration marks

four finished prints with defects

organising my acetates for screen

exposing the screens with acetates

marking off the first colour

tests with all colours before final

pre mixed paint more binder to paint

test on the acetate to rearrange

first ten prints

second colour

test