![]() The name of this cleaner escapes my mind right now but when I get back to the shop on monday i'll post the name of it. I instantly bought a bottle of it and saved 2 more screen we'd had in the back for months. I started to laugh and told him that it would never come out yada yada, but then I had a idea to spray the portion he coated with the pressure washer, and magically every spot the guys chemical hit, that I sprayed with the pressure washer, the emulsion came out. He sprayed it and started to rub it with a little rag he had, and it didn't budge. So I remembered a locked screen we had in the back and had him test out his little magic solution on it. Then he said if I could find something that he couldn't get out he'd give me a free bottle. But he wanted like 35 dollars for a consentrated bottle of it, which he said makes 60 1 liter things of it. One day a kid came to our office with this cleaner, and was trying to show us that it can remove anything, he was spraying his magic solution on all sorts of stuff in our shop and rubbing it out. Now if you sprayed it down and you let it sit for while the fluid redried you might of hardened your screen. I use Speed Cleaner first and try to remove it:Ī good scrubbing usually does the trip but sometimes I use distilled white vinegar and the Magic Eraser to help.I'd just order more reclaimer, and clean it out when you get it in. Once the emulsion is gone sometimes I still have stubborn ink left behind: Once you see the emulsion start to dissolve away you can spray with water and continue scrubbing until the emulsion is completely gone: I take a paint brush and coat one side with the remover and then flip the screen over and coat the other side as well.Īllow the emulsion remover to soak in exactly 1.5 minutes and then scrub with a nylon brush or scrubber. I use Diazo Emulsion Remover to dissolve the photo emulsion from the screen. Any ink or screen filler will keep the emulsion remover from working. I also use distilled vinegar and a Magic Eraser for stubborn stains. ![]() So, if you are finished with an emulsion design and want to reuse a screen here is how you remove the emulsion:īefore I remove any emulsion I remove any excess ink or screen filler that was used to patch up the screen. I keep the following on hand to clean my screens: Note: I tend to use Yudo screens to screen print because they are flat and don’t take up any storage space….however the there is no protection on the sides against flinging your ink out across the table like a larger frame would have so I have to be super careful. ![]() Only emulsion remover can remove the design so that the screen can be reused with a different design. The ink can be washed away after use and the design will not wash away. Photo emulsion allows you to screen print very detailed designs over and over again. If you print out a design on transparency paper, place it on top of the screen and expose it to light….the photo emulsion will expose and become permanent on the screen except for where the design blocked out the light. After screen printing the ink can be washed out of the screen and the contact paper still stays in place and can be reused for multiple prints.Įmulsion: Photo emulsion is a substance that you apply to a screen and let dry in the dark. Here’s the difference:Ĭontact paper: I hand cut a design into adhesive paper and apply it to the screen. I get so many questions on how to clean a silk screen I thought I’d do a tutorial on it! There are two types of screens that I use over and over again: the contact paper stencil screen and the photo emulsion screen.
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