9 Guides
Process & Technique
The craft itself: how to choose mesh, coat and expose screens, dial in curing, and fix every common print defect. This is the foundation everything else builds on.
- How a Squeegee Really Works: Pressure, Angle, Skew, and Peel-Off in Plain English
The four settings that decide every print — squeegee pressure, print angle, skew, and peel-off — explained with the actual physics, the working numbers, and the maintenance habits that keep a blade true.
- How Long Does Screen Printing Ink Take to Dry? Cure Times
Plastisol cures at 320°F through the ink film; water-based needs airflow. Cure times and temps by ink, plus how to test a print is really cured.
- Mesh Count Chart: 110 vs 156 vs 230 — What Actually Changes in Your Print
A printable screen printing mesh count chart (TPI + metric T), the 3-screen starter kit, the 4-5x LPI rule for halftones, and the TPI-vs-T confusion nobody explains.
- Screen Won't Wash Out After Exposure: 6 Causes and Fixes
Stencil won't wash out? It's exposure, coating, film density or lamp distance. A symptom table to tell over- from underexposure and what to change first.
- Color Separation for Screen Printing: Free Tool + How-To
Split artwork into press-ready spot colors: LAB palette, ink channels, choked underbase, film export. Free in-browser studio - files never leave your computer.
- How to Use the Screen Mesh Selector — and Why It Works the Way It Does
A walkthrough of the four modes of our free mesh selection tool, the published specification data behind every recommendation, and the three physical rules that eliminate bad choices before ranking begins.
- Exposure Time Calculator: A Complete Walkthrough of the Free Tool
How to use the free Exposure Time Calculator — step wedges (Stouffer, SAATI, Ryonet) and factor filters (ExpoCheck, Chromaline Dual), the off-the-scale cases, and the session log that gets you locked in.
- Screen Inventory Manager: The Complete Guide to Tracking Your Screens
How to use the free Screen Inventory Manager — Excel import with column mapping, free-format screen IDs, tension logging at every changeover, barcode frame labels, and scan-gun lookup. For shops that buy their screens, not make them.
- How to Find Your Exposure Time: A Step-by-Step Guide to Exposure Calculators
Stop guessing exposure times. A 21-step wedge turns 'is my screen cured enough?' into counting squares — plus the exact math to convert your reading into a corrected time.