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Thats pretty awesome. I live real close to KC and would love to work somewhere like this. I need to start looking. 5 months until graduation :/

Really nice video.

I love watching that stuff. What was going on at 1:41 though? Looked like he was vacuuming or squeeging the screen after washout.

looked like he was squeeg-ing off excess water so the screen will dry quicker to be set up to print faster ...which makes sense because of the filming. normally, 'd just let them sit while mixing ink or setting up the next screen. their shop is pretty impressive.

Seems like it would be a pain to print with just a 1 color press, but then again I'm not a screen printer.

i'm pretty sure that's just how it goes with poster printing

Angryblue said: looked like he was squeeg-ing off excess water so the screen will dry quicker to be set up to print faster ...which makes sense because of the filming. normally, 'd just let them sit while mixing ink or setting up the next screen. their shop is pretty impressive.

ya - I just let them sit - but a squeegee sounds like a good idea to speed it up.

RustyEight said: Seems like it would be a pain to print with just a 1 color press, but then again I'm not a screen printer.

screenprinting is pretty much one c at a time. If you think that's a pain, think about many of us that pull that squeegee by hand. and ya - that is an impressive shop.

that's part of the craft. to know that you've got a finished product you had three or 4 opportunities to destroy or fuck up. and to know that usually, it's pulled by hand. it's a limited run touched by the artist (usually). i've gotten spoiled on my auto-press. it's still time consuming, but i'm also glad my wrists and back don't hurt for a day or so afterwards. once you start paying attention/collecting, realizing what is incredibly amazing printing vs pretty good printing. seeing the variations of what people come up with and when someone is being really clever in such a limited medium is really cool. and it's a hell of a lot cooler than ANY giclee or digital print.

If you want to speed up the drying, use newspaper or newsprint sheets. Put a couple across the screen, it'll soak up most of the water, then just put it back in front of the fan. I prefer printing by hand just as much as I prefer hand drawing all of my own transparencies. I like keeping it as lo-fi as possible and I don't think computers are necessary to make art or posters.

I just want to say that I use Vahalla studios and they are magic- literally magic. I dont do any trapping at all; all my colours are like i sep' for tees; butt-up against each other. Vahalla never skip a beat- never let any black through, never show a gap- its amazing how they do it.