Will Lasry breaks down six-color screen printing: each color gets its own screen, burned and washed. The hard part is preparing transfer papers with exact color separations and ink densities so the ink passes through correctly when the job runs.
So these are transfers over here. Yes. This print is what's gonna end up on the screen in order to create the screen print. But what's really important to understand here is in reality, this print has a ton of different colors. The way they're gonna achieve that is by actually making 6 of these screens, each screen having its own color and having its own screen. Um, they're gonna burn these screens onto the actual frame and then they're gonna wash it down with water. If you look at the transfers, it's actually one of the hardest parts of the screen printing process. They need to essentially on the preparation end program all the colors and all the prints, the densities just right to make the perfect transfer papers so that when the person is screen printing, the ink passes through just right. If they try to do it later, the screen printing company that's gonna actually do the printing might fall short.
