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Short technical tips, craft opinion and feature deep-dives — faster and more personal than the guides, and never a repeat of them. New posts roughly weekly.
Craft opinion
Registration crosshairs, a consistent emulsion side, the right print order and a test pull — the three places registration actually drifts, before ink ever touches the screen.
Comparison
Same halftone, dot for dot. What each file holds, where each works, the real pros and cons, and why an EPS is not vector.
Comparison
Baking paper, glue, carbon paper, pencil rubbing, sticker paper, laser and projector, each with a step-by-step plan, plus when to mirror your carving guide.
Quick tip
Your halftone fights the mesh. Keep the mesh at about 4½ times your LPI, keep 22.5°, clean the artwork first — and how to tell which one bit you.
Feature deep-dive
Push coarseness, strength and tone past "correct" and the free halftone tool becomes a trial-and-error way to turn photos into printable artwork.
Craft opinion
The correct order and dwell times, degreasing every cycle, ghost images and haze, safe pressure-washer technique, pinholes and storage.
Quick tip
Post-exposure hardening, the 2&2 double coat, doubling film positives, sharp-edge coats for fine detail — real shop-floor tricks, none of them living in a file.
Craft opinion
PrintFilmReady's job ends at a perfect 1-bit file. Whether that file becomes a working stencil is exposure time and emulsion — two things the browser can't touch.
Feature deep-dive
The ink editor isn't a one-shot export. Merge inks the clustering split by mistake, duplicate one for a double hit, undo freely — none of it spends a free job.
Quick tip
The halftone-angle chart you find online is for offset CMYK. Screen printing has one correct angle, and the reason is the weave of the mesh itself.
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New posts publish roughly weekly — tips, feature deep-dives and craft opinion, rotating between textile, paper and relief printing. Get a note when one goes up.
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