Speedball Diazo Photo Emulsion, 26.4-Ounce

This emulsion works very well. Keep in mind we are very inexperienced screen printers and are just now navigating our way around. We used Speedball's website for instructions on printing (there are several ways to print). Following their online guide really helped. The first run, we applied too much emulsion and it created dots or drips from pooling at certain places on the screen. Lesson learned, we moved on and applied it much thinner the next time and that eliminated the drips.Yes, they tell you this, but as a newbie, you think you're painting on enough but there is such thing as too much. We refrigerated the solution as instructed and it has performed well being preserved. Another hard lesson we learned is that screen cleaner is NOT the same thing as emulsion remover. We cleaned for well over an hour with just screen cleaner and it does not break up used/exposed emulsion. You need an emulsion remover to tackle this stuff. Though we did end up trying some home remedies to clean off the emulsion (lemon or citrus cleaners, hard spray (without a pressure washer) and scrubbing. We saved the screen for another use without purchasing the emulsion remover, but we will add that to our arsenal. This is a fun, albeit learning process. I now hold higher admiration for those screen printing companies that put a lot of work and apply the right methods to making a t-shirt. This is fun, but if you plan more than stencil screen prints, there is an art to it. Hopefully, we'll become artists with a little practice and patience.

Good stuff.

I got this container of emulsion because a printer friend offered to teach me the basics of screen printing. This stuff works perfectly, but I am glad I had an experienced teacher. Spreading it to the correct thickness, exposing it correctly and then washing off the excess without blowing out details was a but tricky. I probably should have picked less detailed art to start, but I also probably learned more by using art I really do want to print. In any case, the only improvement I could suggest is to add a 1.5 oz measuring cup to measure the water for the sensitizer, but eyeballing did work. However, the shipping can be a nightmare as others have noted. My first order was shipped in an envelope with no protection for the thin Speedball box inside. The bottle was crushed and the emulsion had leaked. I could not even get the envelope open because it was one solid mass of emulsion. The replacement order was shipped in a box and arrived with no damage. Since the shipping was done by Amazon, I did not take off any stars from the product. I hope that Amazon addresses the packing issue because it is a great product once you get an intact set.

always my go to emulsion. i get a nice clean and clear image. i coat my screens and then i burn them in the bright sun for only about a minute and they normally come out pretty perfect.

Seems decent. The emulsion seems old tho. Had to use cricut instead.

This is the second time I’ve tried speedball diazo, the first I assumed I had made some kind of mistake because it didn’t turn green. I realized this time that it was not my fault, the sensitizer clumps into a paste on the inside lip of the bottle and won’t come out, no matter how much water you use or how much you shake it up. I wound up trying to pick it out of the bottle to mix it in because I’d put so much water in that the jar was almost overflowing. No matter what it wouldn’t mix in. (Fun aside— it also stained my counter tops and my skin brown while I was trying to mix it together by hand, and the day after, I became violently ill and couldn’t keep any food down for two days. That “wear gloves” warning is a little small.) Very frustrating, I’ve used speedball for Lino printing supplies and I loved their stuff, but this is very disappointing.

The one thing I didn't like about this is having to buy the sensitizer separately. It does alright, but not as good as other emulsions I've used.

I'm a Prop and Costume replicator / fabricator and a lot of the newer superhero costumes have screen prints on them. I blew threw $200 in Emulsion from companies like ScreenPrinting(.)com, and a good bit was from shipping. Not only did I waste money, I wasted hours and hours. Speedball's Emulsion is fantastic! My screens come out just they way they should. My only gripe is we have to order Diazo separately. They need to take that off as part of the item's description. "Speedball Diazo Photo Emulsion." It just don't have Diazo. Period. That is, and always is, an additive. I burned my screens with a blacklight bulb for 9-10 minutes at 15" away. My screens washed out fast and clean.

Usually very good product but this time the sensitiser would not dissolve in the bottle. After attempting to get it all out and mixed with the emulsion I have ended up with a lumpy unusable product!, at over £50 this is not cheap. I brought two of these and am nervous about opening this. I need it for an art job. Perhaps it’s been in the ware house too long?

I read a review similar to the one I am writing now, and I am so glad that I read it before wasting more money on other brands of emulsion. This is a fantastic product and well worth the money!

Man benötigt einen Sensibilisator noch dazu. Warum nicht beides in einem verkaufen? Somit ist das Produkt unbenutzbar und zu teuer.

Making punk band shirts since forever

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