HOW TO BURN HALFTONES WITH DIY EXPOSURE UNIT
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- čas přidán 4. 08. 2020
- This video shows you how to burn halftones using a DIY exposure unit with special equipment. We do have a video showing you how to build the DIY unit that we use, make sure you watch this video to see how to build one yourself.
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Thank you, thank you.............THANK YOU SO MUCH! I can finally print halftones, i appreciate you dude!
Amazing. Home brew sink, gardenhose and UV light. All for under a $100. Thanks I can afford to make some prints.
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This was a Outstanding video! Thank you so much sir
Great job. You can speed up your washout time by wetting the screen down on both sides and then waiting about a minute before you start washing the screen out. That will gove your emulsion time to breakdown and makes it easier to rinse the design out. I like to rinse my halftone out with a portable pressure washer.
It drops them out super fast. You can grab a cheep one less than 100 bucks. I ts great for places where there is no water so you just use a bucket of water to sit the hose in. Works great
Awesome! ... I have a Vastex E-100 ... I see how I could have saved a ton with your econo setup ... I think the glass is better way to hold down the film on a screen than using the rubber vacuum with suction ... Good job!
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hey i was wondering in the earlier videos you burnt your screens at 15 seconds what changed?
Hey thanks man I’m having some trouble with dot sizes when prepping my separations do you have any videos I could help with that?
For Dot size are you doing halftones or are talking about washing them out?
@@ApparelTalk what lpi did you use to print your film. And the frequency output. Im currently using Photoshop and I need some advice.
Great video it helped a lot! I do have a question though. Does the wattage of the light change the speed or effectiveness of the screen burning process or how well it comes out? Thanks a lot man
Yes the watts in the light does change how long it takes to burn the screen
Where do you dump the water? Down the sink?
How do you get the film negative that large?
What type of glass did you use? clear, tempered, etc? also how thick? i see home depot has clear glass but i hear it blocks up to 99% UV.
What size and how thick was the glass ? Thanks in advance
oh wow 20 secs.. can u show ur wash out booth i need a diy wash booth.
Great Video! do you have an exact link to buy that same Light you're using to burn your screens?
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Great info. I thought in order to burn the screen, it needed to be in a dark Area/Room. True ? I noticed you were outside daylight..
Yes the tent I’m these videos was a UV blocked you have to be avoid UV light
how bout the lpi?? 45??
What kind of emulsion is it again? Seems to work well. Review here trying to figure things out and retire burning my first screen today with your DIY set up but I think I didn’t mix my emulsion right or was too thick. The design blew out and then it took forever to wash out the emulsion from the screen -ugh!
Sounds like you are exposing it to long I use the chromoline WT or WR it’s for waterbase and plastisol how long did you expose for and is it the black led light
@@ApparelTalk Hey!Thanks for responding I actually have the same light as you. The 50 Watt LED light. I tried 15 sec, 30 sec and 45 sec. Same results on all of them. I bought the Ryonet RXP Dual Core Emulsion and have used that but I might have mixed it wrong. And like I said, too thick. It took me 1.5 hours to wash out 4 screens that I tried burning (to no avail). Keep up the good work on your videos! I love learning about screenprinting.
What printer is that you used?!?!?!
You mean to tell me you don't need to have all that fancy expensive equipment like a majority of the people on youtube claim? 😄. Built my own box with a lid that has spandex material on top. Put a piece of 2" foam to sandwich it together. Haven't had time to use it yet. But hopefully it does good.
I have never had an big expensive exposure unit I can burn everything from halftones to anything you need even CYMK prints. The light I have is the LED light from Amazon cost like $50 and still works perfect to this day. I lay a piece of glass on top of the pressure and never have had an issue and I print everyday.
@@ApparelTalk I bought a 4 pack of 24w about 17" long LED black lights off Amazon. My unit is 24×32. How do you like the Chromaline WR emulsion? What I have. Haven't got a chance to do any printing yet due ro my regular job.
@@richiepyke1380 that is all I use and I work full time so I do know the struggle with doing both.
I agree with Blue Rivera, on another video it was 15 secs. did it change because it was halftones?... Appreciate your videos!
Alex Luna temp outside everything come into play with burning screens I noticed at 15 seconds it would burn good but sometimes it could wash out just depending on the burn so I moved it to 20 sec which has been working perfect
@@ApparelTalk nice! Appreciate it. Good job man! What type of printer do you use to print your work on?..
Every video I see says you have to have a little controlled room for the emulsion, yet I saw you put the emulsion on in the car port and just put it in a covered box to dry. Then here you don't seem to be in any real hurry setting up your screen. Have you had any problems with the screens doing it the way you do. As one Vet to another, keep up your great work. De Oppesso Liber.
No sorry for the late response but never had any issues because the emulsion is set with UV only the carport has a UV blocker on it from the manufacture
How many coats of emulsion do use?
One and one
Good .
Sir . why u use 160 mesh for halftone . whats make u to use this mesh . and no maybe 230 or 305
I could use that mesh but I use the 160 since I need a lot of ink slayed down for this one.
Everytime I try some halftones wash out and on the same screen halftones don't wash out .... ugh I'm so frustrated
Pretty cool just wondering why you don't have an Exposure unit?
I don’t have one because just starting off as you can see was printing out of my house then in a carport but looking at upgrading very soon the entire shop with bigger and better equipment
I used you as a reference today, We had a hard time with shooting a halftone, we do have an exposure unit automatic machine, I said guys I just saw a guy shoot halftone with a 2x4 and a UV light we can do this. Thanks Bro.
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