I am also sometimes confused by my own questions, especially if I am hungry..

I want to silkscreen dark enamel or ceramic pigment designs onto blank decal paper.  These would then be fired over a white background.  I am looking for a recipe that will produce dark lines that will hold up to repeated firings.  Thanks for the info on bell.  I had looked there before and had thought that they mostly did inkjet, but upon rereading it looks like some of their work is screening.  I will need to ask them what medium to use on the water slide paper.  

I am hoping transparent colors over stable white and black will give colored cells with black borders.  Lazy mans stained glass.  Sifting would probably work, I was thinking wet pack so I could be more precise and also to avoid the dust and cleanup from sifting powders.

Hi All,

I am interested in understanding how one might silk screen enamel onto decal transfer paper for use with copper, fine silver etc.

One possible work flow would be:

white enamel or ball clay enamel > Dark Decal > wet pack transparents

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Our studio is leadfree, so we will probably stick with Thompson products.

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My questions so far are:

What screening medium?

(Thompson sells A-14 "screening medium" & A-8 "screening oil")

What Mesh Enamel?

(we will be trying a very dark brown)

What Mesh Screen?  

Some of the T Shirt printing companies sell mesh from #40 to #150+

Which transfer paper? 

Which is going to stretch over a domed shape and still burnout clean?

Thanks for you opinions.. marty