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silk screen printing advice needed
Normally I use my laser engraver to mark all my wooden items for my corporate customers. I now have a job in which will require me to mark a collection of wooden replica bricks with a logo in white. I thought of using a stencil and spraying white paint through it to get my logo but as there are a couple of ‘b’ and ‘o’ capital letters that wont be possible without a bit of faffing about with a paint brush touching up the missing bits. It has been suggested to me that silk screen printing and using a squeegee may be the way forward. The items to be assembled are about 1400 long by about 500mm wide. These bricks are all made from wood and when finished will be like a puzzle which can be moved around and when assembled in the right order will spell out a company name/logo. The weight will be about 20 kg which also includes a frame and baseboard. Not so easy to post to someone to do for me!
I am pretty handy and capable of following guidance and listening to advice so here goes. What is a ball park figure for getting a silk screen made for this basic logo.
What is the best kind of ink/paint to use. Colour will be white.
I will be spray lacquering over it when printed so will the kind of ink/paint matter.
As usual this is a low budget job (aren’t they all) and I am not willing to spend hundreds of pounds on it.
Can anyone recommend someone to make the silk screen for it.
The job is still at the costing stage so I am not committing myself to any expenditure as yet.
Even if I turn out a half decent job, I wont be offering this as a service my business will offer to others.
Thanks for your help
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I would have thought that a paint mask easier than making a screen etc. Unless you have many to make
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It could be between 5 and 25, I just don’t know yet. I’m looking for the easiest way to do it. The silk screen printing method was suggested to me by a mate who lives about 300 miles away. Could you explain a wee bit about the paint mask method. Is this the same as cutting out vinyl and laying it down over it, spraying it and then lifting it off? If I did it this way I would have to fill in the bits in the ‘B’ and ‘O’, which I don’t mind doing.
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As you are so worried about the centres you obviously don’t do cut lettering a quick look at YouTube will explain quicker than me.
We regularly do spray masks for airbrush peopleEnjoy
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A word of advice, screen printing is NOT for beginners.
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I have found a company who have a waterjet and can cut the angles on the lettering unlike the cnc router. I will use a can of spray paint and touch up the bits on the b’s and o’s with a paint brush. Minimal clean up and pretty quick. Decent price as well.
Hope the customer likes the overall price and puts in the order.
Thanks for all your helpMike
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