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Pink & Green for today’s Test Print Tuesday

Test prints, or monoprints, are one-of-a-kind artifacts that develop while screen printing. Whether they’re used to clear ink from a screen, adjust print registration, or test ink opacity and flow, these test prints evolve from necessity. Each one is an individual, made of images, screens, and orientations from multiple poster designs that come through the shop. What starts out as a blank sheet of paper, or overruns from previous jobs, ends up becoming its own work of art through chance and luck. Perfectly imperfect. Determining when a test print is “done” is as diverse and complex of a decision as the prints themselves, which is what makes them unique and collectible. ⁠
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Soup Weather.

Test prints, or monoprints, are one-of-a-kind artifacts that develop while screen printing. Whether they’re used to clear ink from a screen, adjust print registration, or test ink opacity and flow, these test prints evolve from necessity. Each one is an individual, made of images, screens, and orientations from multiple poster designs that come through the shop. What starts out as a blank sheet of paper, or overruns from previous jobs, ends up becoming its own work of art through chance and luck. Perfectly imperfect. Determining when a test print is “done” is as diverse and complex of a decision as the prints themselves, which is what makes them unique and collectible. ⁠
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Have a happy and safe holiday season! We’ll see you in the New Year!

Feeling the cold in this one!

Test prints, or monoprints, are one-of-a-kind artifacts that develop while screen printing. Whether they’re used to clear ink from a screen, adjust print registration, or test ink opacity and flow, these test prints evolve from necessity. Each one is an individual, made of images, screens, and orientations from multiple poster designs that come through the shop. What starts out as a blank sheet of paper, or overruns from previous jobs, ends up becoming its own work of art through chance and luck. Perfectly imperfect. Determining when a test print is “done” is as diverse and complex of a decision as the prints themselves, which is what makes them unique and collectible. ⁠
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A lil’ Foil for Fall for this week’s Test Print Tuesday, featuring October artwork.

Test prints, or monoprints, are one-of-a-kind artifacts that develop while screen printing. Whether they’re used to clear ink from a screen, adjust print registration, or test ink opacity and flow, these test prints evolve from necessity. Each one is an individual, made of images, screens, and orientations from multiple poster designs that come through the shop. What starts out as a blank sheet of paper, or overruns from previous jobs, ends up becoming its own work of art through chance and luck. Perfectly imperfect. Determining when a test print is “done” is as diverse and complex of a decision as the prints themselves, which is what makes them unique and collectible. ⁠
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Test prints have crazy, unexpected moments, just like the textures on this one where water based ink and UV ink did something funky when they got layered together.

Test prints, or monoprints, are one-of-a-kind artifacts that develop while screen printing. Whether they’re used to clear ink from a screen, adjust print registration, or test ink opacity and flow, these test prints evolve from necessity. Each one is an individual, made of images, screens, and orientations from multiple poster designs that come through the shop. What starts out as a blank sheet of paper, or overruns from previous jobs, ends up becoming its own work of art through chance and luck. Perfectly imperfect. Determining when a test print is “done” is as diverse and complex of a decision as the prints themselves, which is what makes them unique and collectible. ⁠
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When that little piece of weathered texture on the edge of the poster stacks up to make a nice dotted line 🤌