It’s something that takes a fair bit of space. You can make up a printing table using hinged blocks of wood on the edge of a table, and clamp the screens to it with G-clamps, and you can make stencils with photocopies rubbed over with baby oil to make the background translucent and expose the stencil using a UV bulb. Setting up the screens to the right height is a bit tricky, so that the screen ‘pops’ back up from the screened surface, but not too high that you have to apply too much pressure, otherwise you’ll likely get dry patches or incomplete image at the edges. Getting register on multicolour images is tricky, too.
This is exactly how my home made rig was made, if you get serious you can drill tiny holes into the print bed top (or table) and attach a vacumme cleaner to emulate a ‘proper’ bed, this keeps everything in place to reduce wastage.
You don’t need photocopies made translucent for stencils, acetate in your home printer or a photocopier does this job. You can also use photoshop to convert your image to CMYK and print an acetate for each colour. If you go down the UV route.
The process were the screen sticks to the paper/tshirt and leaves dry areas is called ‘kerbing’ In German don’t know of a direct translation, it’s much more rare these days using acrylics as the paint doesn’t stick to the page as older inks did. If it’s occurring the paints too thick.
Registering for multi colours is easy, large sheet of acetate masked down one side under screen pull a print off, slide your page under the acetate and line it up. Lift acetate off and your next prints in perfect place. You can then wipe clean your acetate for your next colour.
Sorry dont want to come across as contradictory, if it appears that way. Non toxic Home printing was my niche.
