All posters printed

  

 

I have printed all the planet posters and am mostly pleased with them. All are 2-colour, except for the sun which is 3.

The posters which required bitmapping were difficult to work with because these positives had to be printed on acetate instead of paper in order to avoid getting a moire effect. For some reason, all the positives printed on acetate were 2mm smaller than positives printed on paper, meaning they didn't quite register. I had to tape up 2mm from the top of the paper positives in order to make them work which was tedious, but they've turned out alright anyway.

Venus' red colour was printed with ink that was a bit too thin for my liking, meaning the colour isn't as intense as I'd hoped. It was also printed on somerset paper from the print room rather than from the library, which turned out to be slightly thinner. I intend to re-print Venus for the final show.

Uranus also came out a bit funny since the gradient wasn't subtle enough, making the print look like I had problems with maintaining pressure while pulling the squeegee. I also think I may have done a bad job washing out the screen after exposing it since there's a lot of noise amongst the bitmapping. I'm also a bit unsure about the colour, which hasn't translated that well to print. Uranus will be re-designed and re-printed for the final show.

Apart from these set backs, everything else looks great. The sun and Neptune's gradients work incredibly well and the line and shape work for all the others is super sharp. Really proud of this set - they definitely put my screen printing skills to the test.