https://www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk/about-us/price-list/
http://www.cadisch.co.uk/screen-printing-inks/Default.asp?whichpage=2
Buying 500ml of System 3 acrylic seems to be chapter to get directly from these guys than even Cass Art which is surprising.
- 500ml of System 3: £9.00 from East London Printmakers
- 1l of System 3 binder: £10.84 from Cadisch. Slightly cheaper than buying 2x500ml from ELP (though it would probably be more economical to buy their 5l for the long run)
- 500ml ink pots: £0.40 from ELP, though I can provide my own tuppleware.
- 3M brown tape x2: £2.49 from Amazon, cheaper than ELP
- A1 200gsm Stockwell cartridge paper from ELP: £0.40 per sheet
- A1 370gsm Lambeth cartridge paper from ELP: £.0.55 per sheet (if I want to make prints on thicker stock)
- Emulsion from Cadisch: £2.87 per 100g, available at 900g for £25.89
- Emulsion from ELP: £2.65 per 100g, available 1kg for £26.50
- Therefore, emulsion is cheaper from ELP.
You can hire screens from ELP per day/week which I'll probably start out doing. Prices start at £2 going up to £7 depending on size.
You can pay per emulsion coating as well starting at £1.50-£2.70 depending on screen size
If I want to buy my own to save money in the long run:
- A3 kit including Stretched mesh and squeegee - £59.00 (+£54.84 for a second screen if I want to be printing two colours, which I do)
At the very least, my first 2 coloured, A3 screen print using my own materials would cost:
- screen hire/week = £8
- 3x500ml of System 3 = £27.00 (3 because of the need to mix colours, though will probably require more)
- 1l of binder = £10.84
- 1kg of emulsion = £26.50
- 1 x brown tape = £1.24
- 10 x A1 stockwell cartridge paper = £4.00. This equates to 20 A2 sheets to print on for a 20-edition run
£77.58
If I don't bother buying my own emulsion and use it per coating, this becomes £51.08.
The thought of carrying around lots of ink and a kg of binder sounds cumbersome so it might not be worth the effort at the very beginning.
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