In today's tutorial I'm going to show you guys how to make a flattening screen
without using silicone spray coming up
welcome back everybody so the first thing we need is a screen for our
flattening screen we have one set aside that has a couple holes in the screen
which will make great for a flattening screen otherwise we would have just
remesh that screen next thing we're going to do is we're going to take our
screen and we're gonna coat it with the emulsion next thing I'm going to do is
coat this screen with around side of my scoop cutter and I'm going to coat it to
and what now that our screens all coated I'm going to take it and put it outside
and let it dry in the Sun and that will also expose it but we'll also put it on
the exposure in a little bit - you also may need yourself a good guard dog and
make sure your screen does not disappear how's that screen looking to follow
well our screen is out drying in the Sun let me show you the couple things that
you will need in order to create a flattening screen and those things are a
Teflon sheet that is going to be large enough in order to cover your max print
size for us that is 12 by 18 so we have ourselves our Teflon sheet here and
you're going to need some spray adhesive I'm going to use the 3m high street 90
contact adhesive that way basically I want to make sure that this thing does
not come off of a screen and I'll leave some links down in the description where
you can find these things alright it's been a little while let's see if our
screen is nice and dry
alright looks like our screen is nice and dry and exposed now what we're going
to do is take our screen and we're gonna go ahead and adhere our teflon sheet to
our screen using that spray T so let's go ahead and do that okay I got my
teflon sheets and on top of a little piece of cardboard and I'm gonna take my
spray adhesive and spray a liberal amount on top of this Teflon sheet
we're gonna let this thing tack up for a moment it's that way the adhesive isn't
quite so wet when I apply it once that's finished drying we're going to here to
our flattening screen okay this is tacked appoint nicely I do know with my
images on my particular screens they start at about 5 inches so what we're
gonna do is I'm gonna just move it in place mine at about 3 inches down from
the top of my screen
now that I have this nice and secure onto the screen what I'm going to do is
take some screen tape and tape off all my unsealed edges and also I'm going to
allow this to overlap just a little bit and that will also help to make sure
this thing does not go anywhere
and there you have it our flattening screen is all ready to go for production
be sure to check out our next video we'll show you guys how to use it on an
automatic press for your manual printers out there be sure to check out our I
card on how to use a flattened screen on a manual press the only difference is
you will not need to use silicone spray this method here will save you a lot of
money from having to purchase silicone spray so be sure to check out that video
and check out our next video when we do toss the screen on to the automatic
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