Imprinter only really has two customers. Creatives and students that will benefit from developing creative mindsets and application.

At Imprinter, we believe that students grow when exposed to multiple languages / concepts / skillsets from varied schools of thought as the richness of a garden bed from which more thought out and refined ideas can spring.
We've all heard that before but know the real gift with learning a skillset like screen printing gives life to other ideas.
Screen printing at first becomes a way to express an idea - political T-shirt / fashion fabrics / cards or posters but then fosters hand skill confidence and communication skill sets that cross pollinate with all other areas and skillsets' in the students life unfolding.

Screen printing guides a Finding and refining depth and resilience in their own ideas and skills by going through that process of art resolution and actualisation into a physical product.

*Becoming more sophisticated and clearer in purpose with each project.

In contrast - I get approached in lines at checkouts and by waiters in restaurants and online and in emails by people telling me their creative stories after that screen print class I gave them or that machine they bought - many legitimate brands and businesses have been born of that first design.

Those people found their voice - and it made all the difference,
Many naturally grew into creative fields - Cooking - Fashion - Advertising etc
Even the Accountants were better for the expression of their art.

'Idea and concept resolution through hand skills, to a product of both social and commercial value'  - Priceless

Suitable for students 12 yo + and well into further education and into professional art or print industries.

*The Imprinter machine is Designed and Made in Australia with design protections and patents across AUS, NZ, U.S., U,K,. and E.U.
All inks are waterbased made in Australia by Permaset Inks in Brookvale, Sydney
As professional and commercial printers we have printed with these inks for over 20 years. With high end international fashion accounts like 'Song for the Mute', Commercial brands from 'Telstra' to 'Campos', film and theatre from 'Thor' to 'The Ring Circle' for Opera Australia and literally thousands of applications between including multiple print exhibitions involving many of Australias top artists.
Permaset inks are professional fashion finish inks.

But it really all starts at this passionate start when a student says -

This is important! - I want to say this! - I can see it in my mind - it's the coolest T-shirt design ever! 

What happens next -

* They start, developing and progressing their own style

* They start applying their idea to a process and achieving that outcome

* They start understanding physical and creative translation of art & design through a real project

* They start to respond to their own art - translation - product feedback loop

                    - and take responsibility for expectation and development management.

* Any one colour piece that a student can get onto a page or create in a computer is screen printable!

* A one colour piece can be photographic or very detailed - giving a student a process that dosen't limit them to blocks of colour or cut out stencils.

Two - three colour and more complex work then just becomes extensions of established skills, practice and application.  

This individual experiential evidence is then compounded by shared class / social group experience.

The Imprinter is first and foremost a print machine built to survive multiple years in your art room. Designed deliberately with no moving parts, springs or hinges it's almost unbreakable. It's Lightweight, carries with a handle and Stacks away for Storage.

The Imprinter is the vehicle for the Imprinter system - which is an easy to comprehend, learn and apply screen printing system using water based inks giving students clear pathways to production and the delivery of their ideas. The skills are transferable to any screen printing or printing at later times in their lives.
The Imprinter system as shown in this video below - takes a student from idea, through concept development to an industrial re-production process to an item or items of recognised commercial value very fast, bringing the student back to integrating this new skill with their own design thinking.

This video is an example of how accessible we can make screen print. It's delivered in a casual manner but at every turn is designed to push the possibilities in and of the idea. Every design goes 2 or 3 directions - every print goes across multiple substrates from T-shirts to posters.

APPROX view time is 60 minutes

What does your school need?

Some schools need complete new kits and some have remnants of past screen print activities - you can use any existing screens and inks on teh Imprinter.

All kits arrive assembled - the emphasis is on the art for creation.

Many teachers have experience with screen printing and this is a fantastic start - but the system is built so as an inexperienced teacher will pick it up very fast allowing them to concentrate in art development with the students.

Our standard school kits: