505 Design Practise 2 - Studio Brief 1- Printing First Try

For this module the final outcome have to create a manually printed A3 poster, as the selected the method for this is screen printing, this as it capture detailed and reproduced the intended details whilst also the ability to recreate glow in the dark and floruensent inks. As the Event selected is the Magic Lantern Festival these light reflecting and specialist ink could be used to visually reflect this part of the events aesthetic.

The current design was compiled of a 4 layer print including the glow in the dark section.

The design of the print was designed to full bleed A3 size which causes a range of issues with the printing of this outcome,  as well as a few other issues, (the screen used someone had covered in glue by accident which left a unintended mark print in the print) the final print for this brief must be redone.


The aim was to print  10 different posters but after studying these there is 1 out of these that is suitable for submitting for the brief, but even this isn't as perfected as aimed for and if there is more time available should be redone.

There was a range of issue with this print and the printing method, which were causes by personal issue. The print was to large to be pull thorough evenly and the full bleed background causes many issues, therefore this print will be redesigned with the issue fixed and reprinted for the deadline.

things that were wrong in this attempt-
-don't add to much detail
-don't made the design fill an A3 pages this is heard to equally pull though, leaves ink in the screen which then dries or over leaks
-keep the layers simple
-drawn over the laser jet printed design in back pen if it's not printed probably before exposing the
screen
-wet the screen straight after exposure, mixes with ink and create runny design
-measure the paint to medium ratio better
-wait for the screens to dry before changing colour
- dont not pull the ink thought twice
-use the correct size squedey
-glow in the dark ink goes off
-use power for sliver ink, paint does not work

due to full bleed images it was hard to print the full background, small arms/weak, my fault

Glue on the screen causes a print to have the last user print still on, this meant the print looked textured and printed incorrectly, this happen to a few different people at the time

coloured pull thought he blue level equally, had to do it twice which made the ink over spill and leak or not print
also, these prints have the glow int he dark in on, but as it had gone out of date this layer didn't worth either 

as the glow in the dark layer didn't work i tried to ad silver, this was done with sliver acrylic rather than the power and therefore left a very opacitic finish which make the prints look messy/unfinished 

print that was ok