Speedball Art Products Diazo Photo Emulsion Kit for Screen Printing Frames

I power mixed the emulsion with a drill and got a lot of air bubbles - IDIOT. Next I had some trouble spreading the emulsion, but, that was due to my test screen not having near enough tension, and, it was just my first try. After my little mess with the test screen, I coated my production screen, A professionally built and screened aluminum frame. That came out pretty good. You need to be able to fully spread the emulsion and then screed off any excess quickly. I made a nice clear plastic spreading tray but ended up using a 3" plastic bondo spreader with a sharp point to finish spreading and then screeding off excess emulsion. I am making smaller screens though. Spread front of screen, then screed, spread back, then screed. Inspect your screen, spread more, then screed off excess from front side and back side. Press the screed into the screen pretty hard, if you are getting a proper thin coat, you wont get any lines from making multi spreading and screeding passes. I will tell you this, watching youtube videos with pros spreading emulsion with a single front and back pass is pure fantasy. You are probably NOT going to be able to do this with one perfect spreading pass in front and one perfect spreading/screeding pass in back, so don't even worry about it. Be ready to do multiple passes front and back, but be ready to get it done quickly. This process works 100 times better if you got a professionally done and screened frame with the screen stretched super tight. I stretched my first frame myself and found it tough to get high enough screen tension, then I bought a cheap but good aluminum frame with pre-streatched screen and OMG, it was so much more easy and better. Spread and screed off your emulsion quickly, as if you take too long the emulsion starts to thicken up and then it gets very hard to screed off the excess. Thankfully, I found this out on my first test screen so I got right to it and finished quickly on my money screen and it came out PERFECT. Nice even thin coating and when it fully dried it was exactly as needed, no more thickness then the screen itself, and, that is exactly what you want. If you get excess thickness on your coated screen you will have problems with excess paint loading when doing your screen printing. Excess thickness was the problem I had with my first screen, not made with emulsion, but with a sheet of sticky vinyl with letters cut out. It worked OK, but was hard to get a nice prefect thin layer of ink/paint on my products as the vinyl, seemed thin enough but in reality, it was thicker then it should have been and when the screen thickness was added, it was laying down to thick a layer of screen printing ink [paint]. I'm so looking forward to using my screens made with this emulsion, screen printing should work so much better. ~

I'm a hobbyist screenprinter, and basically just print once a year to make t-shirts for my family's annual reunion. I used to struggle with emulsifying and exposing correctly, but since I switched to this Diazo Kit last year I've been very happy and have had minimal problems. The kit comes with the photosensitive agent that must be mixed with water and added to the emulsion, which very easy to do and is not light sensitive during the prep, (which is a huge plus!) It says you can even coat the screen in regular light - although I haven't tried. Working under a yellow safe-light bulb, I've gotten good results and even coating with the Diazo. The emulsion itself is easy to work with: goes on very smoothly, dries quickly, and exposes evenly and pretty accurately to the included time guide. Also included in the kit is a large bottle of screen cleaner, which works exceptionally well to clean out screens that have been left emulsified even up to a year! I always run out of emulsion before screen cleaner - it seems like they could balance the proportions of the two components a little more evenly. My only complaint about this product is it's a little pricey compared to buying in bulk or purchasing the chemicals separately. I can get about 2-3 full screen coverages per emulsion bottle which is great for a hobbyist not printing often, but may use up quickly for someone printing more. Speedball Diazo Photo Emulsion Kit

Been using this Speedball Photo Emulsion kit since 2018, either at Amazon or in my local art supplier in Miami, and never had an issue. Last week i bought from my local supplier: the sensitizer was dry although since its hard to be sure, I filled ½ the bottle with cold water. It never mixed. It was dry. I went back to the store and they reimbursed me and gave me a new kit. At home, same issue, the sensitizer is dry and doesn't mix. I called the store and they had a look at all their supplies and it looks as they were all same: dry. I decided to call Speedball customer service to see how they could help and they recommended to order through Amazon. They told me that through Amazon, it's Speedball shipping and they make sure the product is good. So i ordered again, this time from Amazon. Upon receipt, I opened, had a look inside the tiny botle and to me it looked as dry but just in case, again, I filled ½ with cold water and "tried" to mix. Part of it did mix, and part not. I shaked and stirred on and on. The final product was a grainy mixture that would not expose properly. Not totally blue, but not green at all. I need this to prepare some screens to take to Africa, so I have ordered my last kit to see what happens and I am returning this last one through Amazon. I just got the order #4 and it is finally good! Speedball needs to take care of this issue and see all the customer reviews. If they look per date, they will be able to see that on the last months its mostly people having the same issue: the sensitizer is old, dry and doesn't work!

Very easy to use photo emulsion. I use this with water based inks and can get some nice screens burned. I like that the Dazio is very versitile in how you want to burnt he screen. You can use a light buld and a pie dish if you want. Personally, i prefer to just run out side and count to 30 in the bright dresert sun. I get a perfect exposure every time. I noticed that the only pinholes I get on the screen are usually caused by errors on my part. bad negative, etc. Other emulsions I've used always gave me tons of pinholes. Not dazio. Dazio cleans up off the screen fairly easy. I've tried other pro level photo emulsion chemicals but I don't need to buy a quart everytime I have a project. So, this dazio fit the bill too in that regard, it's enough for 4 good 11x16 screens. Price per volume is a bit higher for the Dazio compared to other commercial-grade brands but I like it. Great screens and just the right amount I need for my random projects.

The first thing you want to do is check that nothing has broken, spilled, or dried. The emulsion with be thick like glue and blue in color. The remover will be thin and clear like medical alcohol or bleach. Both should have cardboard gasketed lids and foil caps on them. The sensatizer (tiny bottle) should be either dry and at the bottom, or thick and at the bottom. If any of the sensatizer is spilled out of the little bottle (along the threads or down the side) send the kit back for a new one immediately. The product is good if you get it undamaged, but Speedball uses incompetant monkey powered robots made from scrap pulled from the Robot Wars set to package everything so check your stuff. As for operation, when the sensatizer is added to the emulsion it turns a good medium (not quite emerald) green and will turn back to blue after it cooks out when you burn the stencil. Look for a light-medium blue hue and the uncooked parts under the negative image should have a yellow, jaundace like hue to them. When cleaning out the emmulsion make sure to wipe up messes immediately as the emulsion leaves yellow stains on nearly every surface known to man, including porcelin and the steel rim around my sink. Trial and error for new users will happen, just don't leave emulsion in a screen for a long period of time if you don't want a permenant stencil, and clean the screen completely before letting it dry if you don't want a permenant stencil (yes the emulsion remover may make the emulsion impossible to remove. Don't ask me how, I failed mad science 101).

This was identical (other than color) to what we used in a professional screen printing shop. Moderation is key or you will have quite a mess on your hands... and screen, and floor, and anything else you are near. I used this with the YUDU printing machine. It worked well for the small jobs I did. I just used the ink squeegee that came with the machine. It probably would've been easier with a better squeegee but I was just doing one or two screens at a time and it didn't require a lot of precision. If you have a smaller design, you can put emulsion only across where your design will be to conserve. Just be sure to tape it off well. You can spread this stuff pretty thin too. I think I made 10 or 15 full screens with this bottle. It's the consistency of white glue and smells pretty similar. If you spill, it's easy to clean up with a wet cloth/paper towel or wait til it dries and peel it off. This is easily removed with the YUDU emulsion remover.

This product is great! I can't believe how easy it is to use. I don't understand why the Yudu system uses the plastic-backed emulsion sheets--which are very difficult to attach to the screen--when liquid emulsion is much easier and forgiving. I purchased this specifically for use on my Yudu mesh screen. I've tried it on both 110 and 220 screens and both were very easy to apply. You don't need anything else if you have a Yudu--just the squeegee, screen, and emulsion. Oh, and make sure you wear gloves! The additive you put into the emulsion WILL stain your hands and tends to get on everything very easily. It takes 30 seconds to coat both sides of a screen evenly after you get the hang of it. I've only done a few but I still have a lot left in the bottle. I can't really estimate how many screens this will cover, but it's a whole lot more economical than the Yudu branded sheets.

I've tried the Jacquard emulsion kit, I even just left a review of it, and while I don't think it's terrible, I never had good luck with it. With Speedball, however, I've been able to burn my screens perfectly almost every time. It's a little more expensive than the Jacquard, but for me, it seems to be worth the money for the quality product you're getting, especially if you're buying it in this kit, as you also get emulsion remover.

I found the emulsion sensitizer empty and dry, i really so disappointed also i want to refund it plz contact me as soon as possible.

Good product

Me gusta mucho va muy bien para las pantallas de serigrafía

Nice

Really like this product, Starting from being a total novice at screen printing, after a very short time, I now have the ability to put my designs onto T-shirts because of it. Initially had a few problems with exposure times as I first tried to use sunlight/daylight ( I live in a region which has 8 oktas of cloud cover for a large part of the year, so this was never going to work) but then on purchasing a 400 Watt halogen floodlight for six quid from B&Q, taking off the glass cover and exposing the screen mesh with the photo emulsion coat and design acetates on top, at a lamp height of 1 meter for 15-16 minutes, it worked perfectly. The unexposed photo emulsion washed out easily, while the exposed part of it set into a hard plastic coating that is impermeable to the fabric dye ink. It was then just a case of squeegeeing the ink through the mesh onto the shirt and setting with heat lamp/heat gun and Ironing through a cloth to have a very nice designer T-shirt. I was also very impressed with how quickly Hyatt's All Things Creative, who are based in Buffalo, NY, delivered it to my address in the UK. The mesh cleaner that is included in the box works very well also, which means you can easily reuse the mesh and frames once your print run is over (saves you from unnecessarily purchasing new frames and mesh).....