#developingwork

After those trial printing sessions, I had to make the decision whether the cards are going to be with good quality but on thin paper, screen printed with good quality but with loss of detail, or printed on thick paper, but with bad quality since the printer did not recognise it.

The other three of the designs did not come out well with the screen printing process. This is because the lines were really tiny and the ink dried out too quickly in them, filling them up. So when it came to printing them on paper, the lines just didn’t want to come onto the paper and the ones that did, were too plain.

Screen printing book cover.

The three designs that came out well. I screen printed them 20 times each, with my details on the back.

Cutting the cards on the guillotine.

I decided to print the little cards on some other paper as well. Those are the ones that did not come out well with the screen printing process. When they are regularly printed as images on a bit thicker glossy paper, the quality is not lost and they look like the originals, just as smaller sizes.

After everything was glued, I took some weights and put them on the books to stay like this overnight so everything becomes well glued and is as stable as possible.

Sticking the inside paper.