Week 9// 19th November 2015



This was the second week into my live project for my business. After last week’s disaster of screen printing, I decided to do more thick designs as screen printing is the most professional way to print onto t-shirts without them fading.

For this I came up with 4 new designs ready for screen-printing. Once I got the images ready for screen-printing I exposed them to the light and washed them away. Once I did this I noticed the screen burned out in places that I didn’t want it to do so it created holes that I did not want it too. So if I were to print these designs it would leave unwanted lines and spots so I couldn’t use this screen. With the second screen I exposed it worked. When I printed onto the t-shirt it worked but once I printed more than one print onto the t-shirt it started to leave trace marks of other prints so this ruined the T-shirt. I then printed off this print onto the other t-shirt, because I pushed the ink through that many times the lines started to bleed which made it look very scruffy.


After screen-printing not going so well I decided to use another method to print with. This method was T-shirt transfers. I found this a very easy way of printing but I can tell that it will crack and peel after you wash them. I created four t-shirts with this method and I really liked the outcome of this but it’s not enough good quality for what I want. I will retry to do screen-printing again but be more patent with it and take my time when doing them as I feel that I rushed it when  I did not need to.

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