Some notes from screen printing

I've printed 2/3 colours for Grimes. This is the first print that I am doing on A1 paper in order to crop down.

I think that my registration has been better thanks to being able to use not only the design itself, but the registration marks on the side, to align the prints. Unfortunately the crop marks didn't come out too well so cropping will be another issue, but shouldn't detract from the prints too much.

The colour mixing also went really well; using a few squeezes of fluorescent ink has helped the colours pop more. It may not be appropriate for every poster, but certainly worked for kooky Grimes. Mike said that in general, you should print the lighter colours first and work your way to the darker ones, but if the image is bitmapped, the colours should blend together similarly regardless.

While the colours were mixed well, I'm beginning to notice the splotchiness of the ink more and more as Fred pointed out in the crit. This is definitely due to the quality of the paper I am using. I'm just using cartridge paper from the studio, but maybe I should invest in doing at least one print per run on nicer stock like somerset, or just other cartridge with a higher GSM.