Turn your acrylic paints into screen printing inks.

Daler-Rowney System3 Acrylic Printing Medium is specially formulated for use with System3 Acrylic. The two combined produce a low-odour, water-based screen printing ink regarded worldwide as the finest of its kind. Being solvent-free, it is ideal for use in schools, studios, and at home. Printing Medium slows down on-screen drying of acrylic colour, reducing the risk of screen blocking, and making it easier to wash out. Screens, kept moist, will wash out easily with soap and water. The medium can be thinned with water. Even after mixing with Printing Medium, System3 Acrylic colours retain great density of colour, and very substantial covering power can be achieved on paper, card and board without undue cockling. System3 Printing Medium can also be added to pre-mixed System3 Screen Printing Inks to thin them down if desired.

Directions: Mix 1 volume of System3 Screen Printing Medium with 1 volume of System3 Acrylic to make the screen printing ink.

Liquid Retarder.

System3 Liquid Retarder is used as a medium to slow down drying time or reduce the viscosity of screen printing inks and acrylics. It reduces silk screen blockage and makes cleaning screens easier. It also increases the working time of acrylics, especially in warm dry conditions. It is great for blending colours, particularly for fine, detailed work.

Screen Drawing Fluid & Removable Screen Block.

System3 Screen Drawing Fluid is applied by brush directly to the screen to create a drawn image. It can be applied neat but often requires some dilution with water in areas with finer detail. Once dry, the entire screen surface is blocked out with System3 Removable Screen Block, which is applied with a squeegee. After drying, the drawn image is washed out in cold water to leave an open-mesh positive image ready for printing. After printing, screens can be reclaimed by softening up the block with very hot water and then vigorously washing out the Screen Block with a suitable brush and a very strong soap solution such as undiluted washing-up liquid. Screen Block should be kept upright and stored at normal room temperature.

Made in England.

Daler-Rowney is particularly proud to continue the long heritage of manufacturing System3 Screen Printing Medium in the United Kingdom, based in the South of England, in Bracknell.