I screen printed the cover design today and, remembering my experience of screen printing the Grimes poster I tried extra hard to get the registration perfect where the text overlapped two different colours. The registration ended up being pretty perfect for a lot of the prints which I was extremely pleased with. Also, it seems like a trivial detail, but I realised that pushing the squeegee back for the flood coat at the same angle which you pull it (rather than reversing it) keeps the squeegee cleaner and makes for a much tidier process.
Anyway, after all that, I've decided that screen printing and scanning doesn't produce an aesthetic that great for a printed book cover. I think the texture is a bit too garish and although the text is as legible as it can get, I still don't think it's good enough for market. In retrospect I probably should've screen printed at a much larger scale and then shrunk the image. I'll try and incorporate some of this texture into the digital version.
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