Things You'll Need:
- Printing surface
- Clamps
- Several print screens
- Transparencies
- Blue painter's tape
- Silk screening inks
- Photo emulsion
- Squeegee
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Step 1
Prepare your printing area. You will need a flat printing surface with some clamps to hold down your screen.
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Step 2
Divide your design by color, and print transparencies for each color. For example, if printing an American flag on white paper, you would need a screen and transparencies for the red stripes and the blue square.
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Step 3
Prepare your screens. When burning your screens, try to align your transparencies as close to the same place on the different screens as possible.
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Step 4
Use clamps to lock your first color screen down. Left the screen, and place your paper on your flat surface. Lay down a piece of painter's tape along the length and width of the paper. Where the two pieces of tape intersect will be your registration mark.
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Step 5
Place some ink along the top part of the screen. Lower the screen, and use the squeegee to pull the ink across the screen and onto your print. Pull the print out, and set it to dry. Do this for each print.
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Step 6
Clean off your first screen, and place your second screen in the clamps.
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Step 7
Place your dry prints on the flat printing surface, and try to line the print up with the design on your second screen. Keep working with it until it is perfectly aligned.
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Step 8
Lift your screen carefully, keeping the dry print in place, and put tape down to create a new registration mark.
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Step 9
Put ink on your screen, and squeegee it across. It should create the second color. Take the print out, and set it to dry.
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Step 10
Repeat this process with each new color.
