![]() Watch the emulsion carefully, it will darken from a yellow green to a blue green. Take the bag off and leave your screen in the sun for about 2 minutes. Pro-Tip: Use a piece of cardboard to help move your screen around before exposing it. Now, if you are going to take it outside cover everything by slipping it in a black plastic bag, you don't want to start exposing the screen until you are outside. Lay the plastic glass over the acetate sheet to hold it down. Lay your printed acetate sheet on the screen or on your exposure bed, be sure to flip it so that when you turn the screen over for printing it reads in the right direction! If you have a good dry screen the sheet should peel off and you can discard it or save it to use for some other craft project. If any emulsion starts to come up then it might not be dry enough, put it back in the dark closet and let it dry. Take out your screen, carefully pick the corner of the plastic carry sheet up from the emulsion and slowly peel it off. Pro-Tip: To make sure you get a good image on the screen, print two acetate sheets and tape them together to get the ink opaque enough. ![]() While the screen is drying prepare your image, print it on to the acetate using a copier or laser printer. You do not want any light to be able to get in. Put your screen into a dark box, closet, etc. One last time press/smooth the emulsion sheet from the back to help it make contact to the screen mesh. Press the emulsion sheet firmly on the screen and smooth it out with a squeegee.įlip the screen over to check for any areas that didn't stick/get wet enough, these areas will be sort of white. Next, take out the emulsion sheets and peel one off the stack, put the rest back in the package for later.Īpply the sheet to the wetted screen with the shiny side up, it is hard to see in photos but there is a clear shiny side which is the plastic sheet the emulsion is carried on. You don't want it drenched but thoroughly wetted. Using the spray bottle, wet the back of the screen as evenly as you can. The photo emulsion sheets are light sensitive so time is of the essence for this part. Make sure you have a dimly lit area to apply the photo emulsion sheet to the screen and a dark location to let it dry before you get started.
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