Screen Printing Information and Tutorials

Phew, that title is a mouth full. With so many exciting things on the horizon, I didn’t know how to best sum it all up. Before I get ahead of myself, let me start at the beginning.

It has been almost 11 months to the day, that I started this site. My main goal then, was to share information and techniques relating to screen printing that was not widely available on the internet. While I feel that I have been successful on some level of acheiving that, there is so much more I think we can do with this place.

I am currently in the process of overhauling the design, to be much cleaner, easier to navigate, more inclusive and less ads. The redesign will feature a much more robust storefront, for all of our screenprinting products, as well as more tutorials, downloads and the relaunch of the Screensilk.com forums.

Another feature, which has already been implimented, but will be better integrated into the new design, will be the Screensilk.com Online Printshop . ThisOnline Printshop allows for custom printing of promotional items, stickers, postcards, business collateral, and much more. The beauty of this sytem is that not only can you upload your artwork to be printed, but you can also use our online design interface to custom design your own artwork to be printed on our products. All products are competitively priced, and are guaranteed to be of the best print quality, or we will reprint your order for free. Feel free to browse the Product List and price out your next order.

So if you haven’t already, subscribe to the feed, and keep watching Screensilk.com, as we prepare to take it to a whole new level.

Have a happy holidays, and a safe New Year!

Joshua Van Horsen

Screensilk.com

We have all seen bleach stenciled t-shirt tutorials before, but it is not often to see one that features such a terrific, and well executed design.

Check it out

A problem I hear of a lot from potential clients, is that they only have their logo in a low resolution format. Or worst yet, I don’t even hear it, I am just sent a logo ripped straight out of a website, and asked to create shirts with it.

Just recently, a friend asked that I create shirts for his business ( Rebath - Bathroom Remodeling ). He only had a low resolution .jpg, but needed vectors that could be used for his t-shirt design, as well as camera-ready art for an assortment of vendors (everything from business cards and letterhead, to vinyl graphics on his companies trucks, and signage for his storefront.

Of course, I could have sent him to one of those site on the web that offer to vectorize your artwork for $100, and then provide you with some half-assed file that has been traced with Illustrator. Instead, I offered to the vectorize the logo for him. Now he has an assortment of files, in vector format, that can be used for anything from his website, to billboard advertisements.

So, now I am wondering, do others really require this service, and if so, what are you willing to pay for this? I would to hear your thoughts! Post links to other sites that offer this service, and I will try to match the lowest price that can be found.

Also, feel free to contact me if you are in need of logo vectorizing.

There is a great tutorial over on instructables.com.

The tutorial covers, printing the design to butcher paper, cutting out the design, ironing on the stencil, and inking the design with screen printing ink.

Worth a look, and save it to your bookmarks.

Check it out at here

The other day, a colleague of mine, told me about some free fonts I should check out.

Well, as a professional designer, and admitted font whore, I am generally fairly skeptical about free fonts. I have played the free font game for years, seldomly finding ones that I like, let alone use. So when I heard about these fonts, I wasn’t really chompin’ at the bit to look them over. But being recommended by a friend and colleague, I decided it wouldn’t hurt to take a few minutes and look through the collection, and who knows.. maybe I would find one I like, or at the least can manipulate into something suitable.

Well, not only did I find one I liked, I found 20…..

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