easy panel silkscreen? Tried this?

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Paul 'n' y'all.
	This looks pretty interesting but I have my reservations.

Many years ago in another life when I use to be a photographer (It's a long
story) we use to use a stuff called AutoStar. You can't get AutoStar
anymore but there are maybe a half a dozen other brands out there. Any good
foto retailer will be able to get it for you.

It comes in a roll usually but you can probably get it in cut sheet these
days. It is a green coloured film which, after having been exposed to UV,
breaks down in water. You place this stuff in a silk frame and then wash
it. We use to get 2, maybe 3 t-shirts out of it before we'd have to do
another one. We'd kinda production-line the things but it was the cheapest
and best way of doing custom T-shirts etc at the time. With a proper
"registerable" silk frame you could even do 4 colour.

I looked into this stuff for silking CD-Rs but when it came down to it, it
was messy, wasteful and costly. You definitely need a wet area to do it.

The thing is that autostar was pretty fragile. This stuff looks the same as
autostar except that it's somehow bonded to the silk substrate. This use to
happen with autostar as part of the development process. The surface
tension etc. How this works and how robust it is as a stencil is another
question. But I can tell you that  Autostar wouldn't handle too much
stenciling.

But this looks kinda interesting and probably worth a go if it doesn't cost
you  heaps to set it up. And there's the issue of making the photo-mask in
the first place to consider as well don't forget.

Hope this helps.

Be absolutely Icebox.

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