Speedball Art Products Diazo Photo Emulsion Kit for Screen Printing Frames

The box was open, and it didn’t have the photo emulsion sensitizer. Very bad!!!

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to screen print on my own. I watched a lot of tutorials to try to understand the basics and I spent a lot of money on emulsion that i didn't know how to use properly ruining screens. I then came across a tutorial that showed how to use this package and so i gave it a shot and it works perfectly! I'm not doing anything complicated, so it's hard to mess up, but to really understand the development in how screen printing works, this bundler really worked well for me.

I thought, urgh, I'm not going to get much from this, but it's been going for a good while and I haven't run out. The emulsion/sensitiser is fab, works brilliantly, lovely and smooth to apply, and gives crisp printing. I've covered nearly ten screens (A4-ish) and still have plenty left. The emulsion remover works great, but the amount needed varies depending on how long the exposure has been burned. But I've been though nearly ten screens (about A4) and still have remover left. All in all, happy with product, and certainly would buy again when I finally run out!

I power mixed the emulsion with a drill and got a lot of air bubbles - IDIOT. Next I had some trouble spreading the emulsion, but, that was due to my test screen not having near enough tension, and, it was just my first try. After my little mess with the test screen, I coated my production screen, A professionally built and screened aluminum frame. That came out pretty good. You need to be able to fully spread the emulsion and then screed off any excess quickly. I made a nice clear plastic spreading tray but ended up using a 3" plastic bondo spreader with a sharp point to finish spreading and then screeding off excess emulsion. I am making smaller screens though. Spread front of screen, then screed, spread back, then screed. Inspect your screen, spread more, then screed off excess from front side and back side. Press the screed into the screen pretty hard, if you are getting a proper thin coat, you wont get any lines from making multi spreading and screeding passes. I will tell you this, watching youtube videos with pros spreading emulsion with a single front and back pass is pure fantasy. You are probably NOT going to be able to do this with one perfect spreading pass in front and one perfect spreading/screeding pass in back, so don't even worry about it. Be ready to do multiple passes front and back, but be ready to get it done quickly. This process works 100 times better if you got a professionally done and screened frame with the screen stretched super tight. I stretched my first frame myself and found it tough to get high enough screen tension, then I bought a cheap but good aluminum frame with pre-streatched screen and OMG, it was so much more easy and better. Spread and screed off your emulsion quickly, as if you take too long the emulsion starts to thicken up and then it gets very hard to screed off the excess. Thankfully, I found this out on my first test screen so I got right to it and finished quickly on my money screen and it came out PERFECT. Nice even thin coating and when it fully dried it was exactly as needed, no more thickness then the screen itself, and, that is exactly what you want. If you get excess thickness on your coated screen you will have problems with excess paint loading when doing your screen printing. Excess thickness was the problem I had with my first screen, not made with emulsion, but with a sheet of sticky vinyl with letters cut out. It worked OK, but was hard to get a nice prefect thin layer of ink/paint on my products as the vinyl, seemed thin enough but in reality, it was thicker then it should have been and when the screen thickness was added, it was laying down to thick a layer of screen printing ink [paint]. I'm so looking forward to using my screens made with this emulsion, screen printing should work so much better. ~

I found the emulsion sensitizer empty and dry, i really so disappointed also i want to refund it plz contact me as soon as possible.

Good product