FINALLY!!!

I am so happy! After finding out i could print on the toilet roll yesterday i decided to give it a go myself with my own designs so i have been in the print room all day getting my screens ready to print. Not only did i get to print on the toilet roll but i got to use a print process i really love. The process was especially simple for the toilet roll as it was only ever going to be one colour so there was no need for me to break the image down into CMYK. Below shows the process i took:

The screen i used, i masked off the other text to do

my first trial run. It was important to me to have the 

text fit squarely within the toilet roll sections.

With the majority of novelty toilet roll the images/text

tend to overlap over all the sections and the reason 

for that is the fact that the machine just prints and doesn't

take that factor into account and it would be very hard to for it to do

that. 

Where as i am using a hand technique so i can

afford to be a bit more picky and get my design

squarely in the middle. 

Although as i soon found out this was 

a lot easier said then done..

Here shows the block of text that i 

used first to print onto the toilet

roll.

This was my first print, it worked so well.

You can read the text very clearly, the whole

structure is legible and it fits snugly in the

toilet roll section. The text looks grainy

and is textured which adds more to the 

design. 

This was the second attempt I had at

printing on the toilet roll. It didn't work

as well as the first, this was because

i pushed down a lot harder with

the 'squidgy'. This meant that more

ink was forced through the screen

making the text saturate and disperse 

on the toilet paper. I needed to see how much

pressure i needed to apply to get a clean 

crisp block of text, and this test proved

that pushing too hard would ruin the design. 

With this test i pressed down very

lightly with the 'squidgy' and as you

can see the text didn't print that well.

You can still read it but it does loose

some legibility which isn't great, and

it looses quite a lot of quality.

This is the next stage i took which was

to print two facts a long from one another.

The first print was done too lightly and therefore

came out a little to grainy, but the second fact

printed perfectly, you can read it and

it is clear. They look really good

sat next to each other, having the same

continuity with colour and size

and text but then obviously using different facts

it gives a nice variety. 

Here is the example i made of printing 

with the designs in a continuos

fashion in order to get an idea of how the

roll would look flat out. Although the first

two prints weren't great and are very unclear

it gave me and idea of what i wanted the designs

to look like. Each design fitted snugly in-between

the rolls which, as i mentioned before,

is very important to my design.

It was so useful being able to do this and actually put my text into context. You can now get a real feel for what the product would look like and feel like. It also meant that it could be manipulated and bent and it would still hold its shape, which would make it easier to take photographs and i would no longer have to photoshop my designs.