How to Remove Screen Filler From a Silk Screen

Here's how to make sure your silk screen will live to print another day.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Mr. Clean
• Pressure Washers Or Garden Hose
• Water
• Nail Brushes Or Soft Scrub Brush
• Rubber Gloves
• Rubber Gloves
• Safety Goggles
• Safety Goggles
• Water

1. Clean all the ink off the silk screen. Use a pressure washer if you have one.

2. Pour Mr. Clean onto the surface of the silk screen.

3. Scrub lightly with a nail brush or soft scrub brush and let sit for five minutes.

4. Scrub the entire surface on both sides.

5. Rinse with water.

6. Repeat until all the screen filler is removed.

7. Hold the screen up to a window or bright light and tip to view it at different angles.

8. Scrub until it's clean no matter at which angle you view it.

9. Allow to air dry fully before storing.

Tips & Warnings

• Use the pressure washer (in a pinch, a garden hose) to wash the screen out. If you don't have any kind of pressure device, washing will take longer and you'll scrub more.
• Make sure to get the screen filler off the taped edges of the screen as well as off the middle.
• Wear gloves and goggles: once it's dry, screen filler isn't toxic, but it won't do your skin any good either.
• Don't scrub so hard you rip the screen.

on 8/8/2006 If you let Mr. Clean sit for about twenty minutes, the screen filler will come off easier. You'll probably have to do it several times with the five minute waiting period.