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LewisM
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£200-250 to spend, is this everything I need?

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Hi guys, with Christmas nearly here at last it's time for me to start pricing up a startup kit.
I'm looking to print A3 posters rather than T-Shirts, so at the moment my list is the following:

(All from WickedPrintingStuff.com)
19 x 24" alluminium frame, 100t mesh (ok for printing posters?) - £22
18" coating trough - £34
18" alluminium D-cut squeegee - £28.20
500ml water based black - £9.40
500ml water based opaque white - £12.93
500ml photocore emulsion: - £10.28
500ml Stencil Strip - £10.28
25 x A4 printer transparecy films - £11.75
16 x 20 x 4 foam base - £15.28

Total - £154.12

Now as I'm looking to print posters, I was thinking of buying a set of these hinge clamps for £25:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Screen-Printing-C ... 1c1733a5b2
And just screw them directly into a large, flat piece of wood (larger than A3 anyway) to give me my press.

I'd then pick up a 1000w halogen light for about £15 and at a later stage I'd build a little exposure unit to hold it, but when just starting out I'm hoping this set up should be OK.

So including the clamps and light at £40, the whole lot would come to just shy of £200.

Would this plan even work? I'm open to any and all suggestions right now, any advise / help would be hugely appreciated heh :)
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Re: £200-250 to spend, is this everything I need?

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That should be OK for a basic set-up, what kind of posters are you trying to print?
Let us know how it works.
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