{"id":598,"date":"2025-02-06T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=598"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:40:14","slug":"printing-my-scaled-up-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Printing my scaled up screen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My scaled up screen was too large to hand pull, so I set it up on the bed with the mechanical arm. I’d never used this equipment for before and it took me and the print tech over 30 minutes to set up and re-calibrate the squeegee so that I got a pull with even pressure. Putting 2 clamps on the squeegee to distribute the pressure more evenly did the trick.<\/div>\n
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Any faff required was totally worth it because the larger scale prints look super duper uber trooper airoplane fly.<\/div>\n
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The widest squeegee wasn’t quite wide enough to capture the whole image in one pull so I ended up filling in the cheeky missing hoof with a little spatula after my main pull. This was effective, if a little inconsistent.<\/div>\n
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A tutor suggested I do a couple of nice prints on some gold. Because black and gold is such a classic combo. Looks swanky AF.<\/div>\n
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And the tests I printed on the red cellophane look brilliant.<\/div>\n
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I ran off 13 perfect prints on the cellophane ready to be suspended for my installation. I just need to experiment with their display and setting as an installation. I’d also love to generate some photos and videos of the end piece in whatever setting it ends up in.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I will print another 10 or so on cellophane next week ready to hang together for my final piece. I need to be careful not to knock the dried prints as the plastic ink of plastic sheeting can peel easily if rubbed.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My scaled up screen was too large to hand pull, so I set it up on the bed with the mechanical arm. I’d never used this equipment for before and it took me and the print tech over 30 minutes to set up and re-calibrate the squeegee so that I got a pull with even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}