Today I went down to the print room in college to gain a greater in sight of the costs of things we will need for print cellar and what sort of sizes things are to fit in the actual space. I took some questions with me and got some good answers, I think throughout this project we will need to keep popping back to ask more questions.
-What size are the print beds?
The ones they have in college are 1m x 1.61m (thats just the bed) we need to take in to consideration the metal clap that goes over the print bed and that adds an extra 0.5m onto width of the bed.
-How much does print beds cost?
They didn't know exactly how much they cost but they did give me an estimate of £1500
They said to check out Net Graph for costs
http://www.natgraph.co.uk/screenprinting-equipment/
-How many different types of paint are there?
For just printing on paper they use: system 3 acrylic
They said for industry we may need to consider using oil based paints but college don't as it is much harder to clean
-How much does the paint cost?
The system 3 paint costs £12 a pot
-How much is the exposer?
They have had there exposer for 16-17 years so don't really know exactly how much they would cost now but they gave me an estimate of £5000
They said that sometimes in industry they have a small room just for exposing with lights in so maybe we could consider a small room just for exposing the negatives
-How much are drying racks?
£220
-How much are frames?
They said to check out ebay, A4 would cost approximately £20
They purchase some of their frames and materials from Steve Woods
http://www.steve-wood.co.uk/
-What sort of chemicals are involved?
Bsolve and Bstrip (he didn't know the exact names of the chemicals)
They purchase all their chemicals from buckle berries (can't find anything online)
-Roughly how much would the chemicals cost?
£22 for 25l of stripping chemicals and £25 for 5l of solve
-What safety clothing would we need to wear?
Need protection for cleaning the screens including eye, ear and hand protection
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