Drying silk-screened copies

Once you have printed copies with a silk-screen printer, you must be careful to dry them well. If you touch or stack them while the ink is still wet, you will ruin them.

1. Lay each of the first 10 printed sheets in a different place. Place the next 10 on top of these, and so on, until the printing is finished.

   This allows the ink to dry partially on one sheet before another is put on top of it. Putting the sheets in stacks of 10 makes them easy to count.

2. Put "blotters" (old paper or newspaper) between the sheets.

In the case of two-sided printing:

• Print all odd numbered pages first so they can dry.
• Then print the even pages on the other sides.

• Task module: Drying silk-screened copies
• In task module: How to print on paper with a silk-screen printer
• In task module: Using a silk-screen printer
• In task module: Printing literacy materials
• In task module: Producing printed materials, by Anne Klaassens (contributor), Robin Rempel (contributor), Trudy K. Stewart (general editor, contributor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), Diane Wroge (contributor), and Adelle R. Walter (illustrator)
• In task module: Developing instructional materials, by Trudy K. Stewart, Leah B. Walter (contributor), and Trudi C. Hunt (contributor)
• In task module: Developing an instructional program, by Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor), Patricia M. Davis (contributor), Trudy K. Stewart (general editor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), and Adelle R. Walter (illustrator)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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