Lining my screen up

T bar and screws.

2 screens lined up.

tightening bolts,

Pushing talcum powder through the screen.

Moving screws up to the stop bar.

All screens Lined up

Pushing Talcum Powder through the screen.

Applying Talcum Powder

Pushing talcum powder through the screen.

Adding T Bar. 

As for this project i have used many screens i have had to make sure they all line up properly. To do this it involves a stop on the printing table. With this i can add a T bar onto my screen which will be pushed up to the stop. I added some large screws with bots the the end of my first screen and these are to measure how far away from the stop bar my screen is. Once both the screws and T bar is added to the screen i used talcum powder to push the  image through the screen onto some back card. this had to be done twice as the image wasn't so clear the first time. Once the first screen has been set up on the stop bar i could then move on to my second screen. I added the screws and bolts to the end and lined the screen up with the image what was on the back paper under the screen. The image was slightly off to begin with so slight taps were needed to move the screen slightly so the image fitted exactly where i wanted it, the screws were then moved so they were pushed up to the stop bar and the bolts were tightened to fix them in place. I could then add the T bar making sure it was pushed up to the stop. I had to be incredibly gentle going this as i didn't want to move the screen. I then pushed talcum powder through the screen so i could then see where the third screen needed to be. I repeated the whole process with the third screen. I was very pleased with doing this as it was the first time i had done it and it didn't go wrong i got everything layering up perfectly. Doing this process is a really great thing when layering screens as you can print any screen in any order and they will line up perfectly every time if all the screws are pushed up to the stop bar and the T bar is pushed against the the stop. You do have to make sure each time they are pushed up properly or the print will be off.