Ecotex AP-Blue - All Purpose Ready to Use Screen Printing Emulsion (1 Pint)

I love it. I will be getting more.

This all purpose emulsion is easy to apply but we couldn't get the timing right. We tried to cure 15-20 different images and it washed out every time. We tried 80 seconds up to 4 minutes maybe even more and it never cured right.

I am relearning how to screen print. It’s been many years since I’ve done it in school and the teacher developed the screens for me. I was frustrated with speedball. I ordered it twice and the emulsion was no good in the two packs that I had to return. I love that the AP Blue is pre-sensitize. I used a screen calculator to figure my times. Even though I overloaded the screens and had drips it still came out great. So far I am very satisfied with this product.

Whale, I really did not expect it to work. I coated four new 16x20 TECHTONGDA Aluminum Silk Screen, Screens with the Ecotex AP Blue Emulsion, and they turned-out like you'd expect some 61 year-old half-wit, to-do. My new 16" Emulsion Scoop Coater Tool was really about 16-1/2", so I used a loose-bladed hacksaw to cut two horribly weh-wah cutted scooper tray trough buddy-buddies.. Pooshing the plastic end-capp back-on, in a rickity reckshaw weeble-wobble fashion -so the Emulsion Goop could run-out the sides and drip onto the floor.. uh. (shakes ee's head).. I coated four new TECHTONGDA Aluminum Silk Screen Printing Press Screens with the Blue AP Goop, coating both sides as best I could with the new Fancy Scooper (waste of money? probably could uh used a piece of wood to do the same spread job, blah blah).. I let the screens dry in my bedroom closet, for two-days.. reluctantly awaiting the day I would attempt the "light" trick.. I finally taped my Transparent Logo onto the AP Coated "Test" Screen, haphazardly tearing away my transparency letters TM (for trademark) and using a 99Cent Store IMO "Sharpie" to fake-in the TM Letters.. (uh..). I had NO IDEA how "long" to expose the screens to the light, and no idea "which light" to use...? I "heard" someone in one of the YT videos say they exposed their screens to only 30-seconds IN THE SUNLIGHT, which sounded way easier than using a 20 minute flood light of 500watt, special lighting, blah blah.. I said, here, goes.. and I walked into the sunlight by the pool, and counted to 30. one one-thousand, two one-shousand, three... Then I "hid" the Screen under my bed covers, and went for a three hour walk... ..Wanting to nap, but instead dredging the screen into the garage -dreading the projected failure of washing out the nappy Blue.. running the water.. hey wait.. it looks like my logo is appearing (water washing over the screen..) Grabbing the Big Handy Brush by the garage sink.. I scrubbed and scrubbed, and low & behold the Emulsion started peeling off in Globby Clumps (like Elmers Glue might do..).. I'll be DANGED! IT LOOKS PRETTY GOOD! Hmmmm. I wonder how that happened..? NOT BAD, I'm Shocked! next, I'll need to cut a piece of wood to become the surface for screen printing t-shirts. Oops, I made the Screen Backwards because I "remembered" to reverse the logo, so, this screen will need to be treated [special] because I reversed the wrong side, meaning the inner screen will not have the buddy-buddy luxury of a border facing me, instead the borders will be facing down on-top of the t-shirts.. ugh not bad for an old-f... don da-da don! Thanks Ecotex AP Blue, for Surprising Me with something that works!!!

Took me a few tries to get it dialed in. But the results after I figured it all out are awesome. I used a tiny 30 W UVLED speedball lamp. And burned for 60 seconds. This was the sweet spot. So happy I figured it out after a few days of trial and error. The error was definitely user but like I said once it was dialed in it’s awesome.