My other day job . . . .

So I have been super busy at uni the last 4 months, I have been designing for my finale year project (which will also be placed in an exhibition as well), been in hospital for some random surgery, been printing like made for sampling and lengths. Which has resulted in losing a pair of jeans to a lot of print paste! But these 4 months have been great and terrible all at the same time. So I thought I would give a little look see into my little world, the Print Studio at RMIT. 

This little photo collage shows and tells the story about me printing one of my lengths for assessment due in a week! This is my Graceful Poppy design, simple but pretty I would say. Unfortunately I don't have an pictures of me printing, which is a bit sad, because I do wear an awesome lab coat that is rainbow coloured due to print paste! 

In this image you can see the table and my screen on the table (which is as tall as me!). 

Here is the first screen to my Graceful Poppy design, this design has 3 colours/screens that blend with each other to create more that just a 3 colour print. The red on the screen is the emulsion, this gets exposed through a big UV lamp in the exposure room. The "white" or clear flowers has no emulsion, therefore this is where the print paste goes through. 

This is a good photo to show how lengths are printed, here you can see the fist layer is down and now I am procedding with the second layer. When printing a length we use stops on the rails and little markers on the screen. The stop gap for this design is 36.5cms, so I measure between the stops then line the screen up against the railing, with the help of the marker. (below gives an idea with what I am trying explain.)

With a length repeat, I print at every second stop. The reasoning for this is to let the print paste dry completely, this reduces smudging and blurry printing. This process sounds like it takes forever to produce a length, but a 3 colour print will take between 30-40 minutes. 

So after all that printing I have come up with a length that looks something like this!

Thanks for making it all the way through this post, hope it was slightly educational! Will put up more post of final work for my exhibition that is taking place on the 22-23 November.