After i was told that it wouldn't be possible to screen print on the toilet paper, because apparently it would saturate and pull apart, i tried again today with some help from a technician from the textiles lab and it worked without a hitch! In order to test we took an already made screen (Hannah Jackson's, from 3rd Year - With her permission) in order to just run the process. It was done using a paper screen as a normal textile screen would have let a lot of ink through and would have destroyed the paper. Then laid the paper flat and using the normal screen printing technique printed onto the paper. It worked brilliantly as you can see. The paper held the ink well, it didn't smudge or tear which is what i had expected it to do. Instead it dried quickly and gave a really crisp image, it showed that i could be as detailed as i wanted and it wouldn't affect the print, or the substrate.
I am definatly going to try and print an example of my designs onto the toilet paper, even if its just the text in order to get a true idea of what the paper would look like.
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