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Complete Guide to Manual Screen Printing

Leave a Comment / Silkscreen, Printing / D Almeida

This Guide should be considered just that, a guide – aimed at beginners in screen printing and at an acceptable level in a residential setting, but without neglecting to seriously address a range of complementary knowledge, not only to provide a well-founded starting point for experience, but also to propel the user towards scaling up the activity. Given a certain tendency towards confusing information on the web, this guide aims to gather and structure a broad set of guidelines sufficient for a good starting point, both for those who only want to experiment and for those who decide to continue and evolve. An integrative approach…

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Life Reading Follows Your Heart

5 Comments / Spirituality / D Almeida

When we learn the art of meditation, we learn to focus on our awareness and silence our thoughts. Therefore, focus is not thought. To meditate is not to think about nothing; it is simply to stop thinking. However, without focus, this interruption of thoughts becomes impossible, as our ego is attached to thoughts and manipulates them. Focusing on our awareness means tuning into cosmic energy, and that is the true purpose of meditation: to free ourselves from the ego and connect to our Primordial Source. Focus is the opposite of the ego. As a Reiki master would say, meditating is tuning the human receiver…

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Silkscreen – About the Frame

24 Comments / Silkscreen, Printing / D Almeida

The frame constitutes the most part of the basic equipment, as it supports the image matrix to be printed. It generally has an aluminum or wooden frame, but in a purely occupational setting, the aspect of producing a good frame is not relevant; a cardboard frame can be used, another frame from home can be reused, or even the mesh can be simply stretched on the workbench with adhesive tape, without a frame. Frameless permeographic stencils were widely used until the end of the 19th century, although the model based on wooden profiles dates back to ancient China and Japan. Several patents involved types of frames…

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A Totally Free Dedicated Hosting Provider For Your FOSS Projects

12 Comments / Software, Web / D Almeida

FOSSHOST was a non-profit organisation, founded in 2020 (Thomas Markey as its founder and CEO), with the purpose of promoting and supporting Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects, providing Virtual Private Server (VPS) web hosting, DNS services, web storage, email and other associated services completely free of charge to everyone who had projects eligible to apply. However, the success of this initiative quickly exceeded expectations, leading its organizers to suspend applications from time to time due to projects over-subscription and in order to maintain the quality of services provided to ongoing projects until FOSSHOST systems escalation. Unfortunately, the project did end in December 2022.

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