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Yudu Rocks at CHA

Diane Gilleland, contributor

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Provo Craft introduced the Yudu at CHA—an all-in-one home screen-printing system.

Photos courtesy of Provo Craft

Yudu's ink line comes in brights, pastels, neutrals, and even metallics. They're all water-based and nontoxic.

Here's an image from one of the video tutorials at the Yudu website. This unit will burn your screen and then print with it!

I love how the design is loaded with little registration points to help keep your screen and fabric aligned and still while you print.

Provo Craft introduced the Yudu at CHA—an all-in-one home screen-printing system.

Photo: Photos courtesy of Provo Craft

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One of the coolest things about going to CHA is seeing lots of brand-new craft supplies and tools. I thought I'd take a few posts here to share some things that had my crafty fingers tingling in anticipation.

The Provo Craft booth was mobbed with people during the show, and it was all because of the Yudu. It's a portable, all-in-one screen printer, and Provo had a whole fleet of them cranking out screened T-shirts for an excited crowd.

Yudu's design is pretty genius: It comes with a metal mesh screen. You cover it with a sheet of emulsion, and place a transparency (printed from your home printer) over the emulsion. Then the Yudu's built-in light table exposes the emulsion

You can pull a bunch of prints, and then—here's the best bit—wash the emulsion right out of the screen. Then you can reburn it with new designs again and again. The print area is 11 inches x 14 inches—sized for a T-shirt front, but you can print all kinds of fabrics and papers.

Yudu uses water-based, nontoxic inks, which come in lots of great colors.

There's a great, detailed video tutorial over at the Yudu website, along with diagrams, inks and accessories, and more.

'Scuse me now...I need to go screen print everything in sight.

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Comments (9)

CherieWarhol writes: I was just about to google screen printing and then my craftstylish letter came into my inbox.. I want one of these sooo bad!!!! thanks for the info!!
Posted: 2:44 am on March 28th

JamesTee writes: I just bought one, but ran into a few problems with the first 2 emulsions...so now I have to get some more. Honestly the mistakes I made with it were dumb. lol

I just found a website that i wish I had found before i messed up, www.yuduforums.com, which looks like it just went online but has some videos and how tos and stuff. Its a decent read to help with some of the mistakes that I made.
Posted: 4:05 pm on February 24th

mbrownpc writes: Sigridsoto, I'm excited for you to try your Yudu. I just joined Provo Craft recently and have been enjoying doing fun projects. I did Yudu this weekend.

You should be able to find additional Yudu supplies at local hobby and craft retailers such as AC Moore and JoAnns.

You mention you bought through HSN. I believe that HSN is sending out the emulsion remover. Hopefully that will be heading your way soon. Have fun!
Posted: 2:36 pm on February 23rd

sigridsoto writes: I have one i got it off hsn I have not opened it for a few reasons one the yudu website has no available products. I have email them to ask when will they have prices on their products. And it's been 2 week now and no reply.Also Their is a special emulsion to remove the image that has been burned into the screen. With my kit I got 3 inks 2 screens 1 transparency a cd all for $ 300.00 and i bought extra colors for 45 dollars.
Posted: 6:55 pm on February 21st

Caityquilter writes: I HAVE TO HAVE ONE!! Oh I hope it comes to Australia soon - I would sell off my entire quilting fabric stash to get one of these beauties!!
Posted: 7:27 am on February 7th

paperrain writes: are you KIDDING? I had no idea there was anything like this! After hearing IN the gocco class I took that they were not being made any more, I despaired. water based and non-toxic? how cool.


Posted: 3:26 pm on February 5th

MichaelaMurphy writes: This caught my eye too, but I only had a few minutes to check it out. Thanks for all the info Ms D.
Posted: 2:23 pm on January 31st

Sister_Diane writes: Fletchbrew, each screen would be a single color. If you wanted to do a multiple-color print, you'd burn a screen for each print and then go though the printing and setting process for each color. That video tutorial is loaded with good info for your hubby!
Posted: 10:59 am on January 31st

Fletchbrew writes: My husband wants to know if it is single color. He's always talking about starting his own t-shirt business!
Posted: 10:47 am on January 31st

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