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SCREEN PRINTING VOCABULARY
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| Fabric on a shirt that "shows" or "bleeds" the ink |
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| "Exposing" a prepared screen to a very bright light to harden the emulsion |
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| A photo-sensitive material placed on the screen before is "burned"/"exposed" |
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| Trough with a straightedge used to put emulsion on a screen |
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| A clear, acetate-like substance. Each color for the design goes in a separate film |
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| A "flash cure unit". Used to cure the inks |
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| Pulling ink in the design and "flooding" the image before screening it into the substrate |
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| Refers to the screen and how tightly woven it is. The higher the mesh, the tighter the little fibers hat make the screen are woven together. As the mesh is higher, less ink will pass through the holes in the screen, showing more detail |
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| The board that the T-shirt sits on for screening |
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| A kind of ink. Is the standard ink every screen-printer uses. It is basically plastic liquid |
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| The side of the screen that the design is put on. |
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| This is a process involving placing every screen in the machine in the same exact spot so the colors print directly on top of one another |
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| A scoop is used to transfer ink form a container to the screen |
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| What the ink travels through to get onto the garnment |
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| Device used to hold the screen when pressing the ink onto the T-shirt |
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| A rubber bar. These are pulled across the screen that you put ink on and push through with the squeegee |
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| Refers to the other side of the screen that you put ink on and push through with the squeegee |
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| Refers to separating the colors of a screen print onto separate films |
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| The material that is being used to print on |
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| Happens after the screen has been burnt. The film is removed and the entire screen sits for a few moments in a deep tank to further soften the unexposed emulsion. After that, goes to the wash out tank and the unexposed emulsion is washed away from the screen leaving a nice, clean path for the inks to travel through |
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TYPOGRAPHY VOCABULARY
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| How text/images line up with each other |
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| The line upon which most letters sit and below which descenders extend. |
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| Single letter, number or any other symbol used to represent information |
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| Subjective feeling that indicates that certain different fonts work together well, giving an impression of variety without losing harmony in the overall piece |
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