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title: "Speedball Art Products Diazo Photo Emulsion Kit for Screen Printing Frames"
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# Fast 2-step activation Water-mix sensitizer Photo-detail precision Speedball Art Products Diazo Photo Emulsion Kit for Screen Printing Frames

**Brand:** speedball
**Price:** ₨1490
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🎨 Unlock pro screen printing magic—no darkroom, no drama!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Speedball Art Products Diazo Photo Emulsion Kit for Screen Printing Frames by speedball
- **How much does it cost?** ₨1490 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- speedball enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted speedball brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Effortless Activation:** Mix sensitizer with water—no darkroom needed, prep under normal light!
- • **Long-Term Screen Care:** Powerful remover cleans screens even after a year, extending your gear’s lifespan.
- • **Complete Kit Convenience:** Includes emulsion, sensitizer, remover & instructions—everything you need in one box.
- • **Pro-Level Results at Home:** Achieve smooth, thin, even coatings on professionally tensioned screens for flawless prints.
- • **Precision Stencil Creation:** Ideal for detailed, photographic-quality screen printing stencils.

## Overview

Speedball’s Diazo Photo Emulsion Kit delivers a professional-grade, two-step photo emulsion system that activates with a water-mixed sensitizer. Designed for detailed photographic stencils, it requires no darkroom prep and includes emulsion, sensitizer, remover, and instructions. Perfect for hobbyists and pros alike, it ensures smooth, thin coatings on well-tensioned screens and offers a powerful remover to maintain screens long-term.

## Description

"Speedball's Diazo Photo Emulsion is ideal for creating detailed or photographic stencils for screen printing. No need for a light safe environment or dark room! Set contains 1 each of the following: 6.6oz (195ml) Diazo Photo Emulsion; 2.12g Diazo Sensitizer; 8oz (237ml) Diazo Photo Emulsion Remover and Instructions. "

Review: so far so good - I power mixed the emulsion with a drill and got a lot of air bubbles - IDIOT. Next I had some trouble spreading the emulsion, but, that was due to my test screen not having near enough tension, and, it was just my first try. After my little mess with the test screen, I coated my production screen, A professionally built and screened aluminum frame. That came out pretty good. You need to be able to fully spread the emulsion and then screed off any excess quickly. I made a nice clear plastic spreading tray but ended up using a 3" plastic bondo spreader with a sharp point to finish spreading and then screeding off excess emulsion. I am making smaller screens though. Spread front of screen, then screed, spread back, then screed. Inspect your screen, spread more, then screed off excess from front side and back side. Press the screed into the screen pretty hard, if you are getting a proper thin coat, you wont get any lines from making multi spreading and screeding passes. I will tell you this, watching youtube videos with pros spreading emulsion with a single front and back pass is pure fantasy. You are probably NOT going to be able to do this with one perfect spreading pass in front and one perfect spreading/screeding pass in back, so don't even worry about it. Be ready to do multiple passes front and back, but be ready to get it done quickly. This process works 100 times better if you got a professionally done and screened frame with the screen stretched super tight. I stretched my first frame myself and found it tough to get high enough screen tension, then I bought a cheap but good aluminum frame with pre-streatched screen and OMG, it was so much more easy and better. Spread and screed off your emulsion quickly, as if you take too long the emulsion starts to thicken up and then it gets very hard to screed off the excess. Thankfully, I found this out on my first test screen so I got right to it and finished quickly on my money screen and it came out PERFECT. Nice even thin coating and when it fully dried it was exactly as needed, no more thickness then the screen itself, and, that is exactly what you want. If you get excess thickness on your coated screen you will have problems with excess paint loading when doing your screen printing. Excess thickness was the problem I had with my first screen, not made with emulsion, but with a sheet of sticky vinyl with letters cut out. It worked OK, but was hard to get a nice prefect thin layer of ink/paint on my products as the vinyl, seemed thin enough but in reality, it was thicker then it should have been and when the screen thickness was added, it was laying down to thick a layer of screen printing ink [paint]. I'm so looking forward to using my screens made with this emulsion, screen printing should work so much better. ~
Review: Reliable Results from Trusted Brand | Kit contains all chemicals needed - I'm a hobbyist screenprinter, and basically just print once a year to make t-shirts for my family's annual reunion. I used to struggle with emulsifying and exposing correctly, but since I switched to this Diazo Kit last year I've been very happy and have had minimal problems. The kit comes with the photosensitive agent that must be mixed with water and added to the emulsion, which very easy to do and is not light sensitive during the prep, (which is a huge plus!) It says you can even coat the screen in regular light - although I haven't tried. Working under a yellow safe-light bulb, I've gotten good results and even coating with the Diazo. The emulsion itself is easy to work with: goes on very smoothly, dries quickly, and exposes evenly and pretty accurately to the included time guide. Also included in the kit is a large bottle of screen cleaner, which works exceptionally well to clean out screens that have been left emulsified even up to a year! I always run out of emulsion before screen cleaner - it seems like they could balance the proportions of the two components a little more evenly. My only complaint about this product is it's a little pricey compared to buying in bulk or purchasing the chemicals separately. I can get about 2-3 full screen coverages per emulsion bottle which is great for a hobbyist not printing often, but may use up quickly for someone printing more. Speedball Diazo Photo Emulsion Kit

## Features

- Photo emulsion is best for creating detailed or photographic type stencils for screen printing.
- Speedball’s Diazo Photo Emulsion is a 2-step process where the photo emulsion needs to be “activated.” To activate, the photo emulsion, sensitizer needs to be added. The sensitizer is a very thick oil and needs water to create the right consistency for adding it to the photo emulsion. (The sensitizer bottle will feel unfilled, but don’t worry it is not empty!)
- No need for a light safe environment or darkroom! Mix photo emulsion under normal light conditions.
- Set contains 1 each of the following: 6.6oz (195ml) Diazo Photo Emulsion; 2.12g Diazo Sensitizer; 8oz (237ml) Diazo Photo Emulsion Remover and Instructions.
- Conforms to ASTM D-4236.
- The jar contains a dried solution. Please add water and shake so that the dried material dissolves into water and turns green.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0007ZHGWI |
| Age Range (Description) | Adult |
| Art Craft Kit Type | SCREEN_PRINTING |
| Best Sellers Rank | #21,479 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing ( See Top 100 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing ) #4,104 in Painting, Drawing & Art Supplies |
| Brand | Speedball |
| Color | BLACK |
| Customer Reviews | 3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars (1,469) |
| Date First Available | March 10, 2005 |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00651032045592 |
| Included Components | sensitizer |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 1.32 pounds |
| Item dimensions L x W x H | 2.5 x 5 x 6.4 inches |
| Item model number | 4559 |
| Manufacturer | Speedball Art Products Company |
| Material | Polyester |
| Number of Pieces | 1 |
| Paint Type | Oil |
| Product Dimensions | 2.5 x 5 x 6.4 inches |
| Seasons | All Seasons |
| Set Name | Speedball Diazo Photo Emulsion Kit |
| Size | 5 inches x 2.5 inches x 6.4 inches |
| UPC | 885517755786 885373832393 046949791005 683203344920 110709394314 710977214620 046964393192 711938041484 651032045592 885726406530 |

## Product Details

- **Age Range (Description):** Adult
- **Brand:** Speedball
- **Color:** BLACK
- **Item dimensions L x W x H:** 2.5 x 5 x 6.4 inches
- **Material:** Polyester

## Images

![Speedball Art Products Diazo Photo Emulsion Kit for Screen Printing Frames - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ODpoqoapL.jpg)

## Questions & Answers

**Q: Does this require a specific grade lamp/bulb to solidify?**
A: [Not sure what you mean by "solidify".  Wipe the emulsion into the screen, then let it dry completely in a dark place, then expose it.] I use a generic 500w worklight, like from Lowes or Home Depot, 18 to 24 inches above the screen, about 9 minutes.  No safety grill, which would cause shadows.  You MUST experiment first... create a design with some pattern, then expose it in sections ... use a piece of cardboard to incrementally uncover more of the pattern so that one end gets X minutes, the next X+1 minutes, etc., then do the wash-out and see which worked best.

**Q: After you open the bottle for the first time, how long can you store it before it dries up? Or is it essentially "use it as soon as you open it"?**
A: I just burned a screen using a bottle of this emulsion that I mixed in April. So, a little over 4 months stored on the door in my fridge and it worked perfectly! In the past, I've never pushed it longer than a few weeks, but it definitely worked.

**Q: HOW MANY SCREENS CAN YOU MAKE WITH THIS KIT?**
A: Ive made 8 17x14 screens, and ive got about 1/3 of the bottle remaining. (plus i scoop coat both sides of each screen).  I use a "scoop coater"  highly recommended for even spreading and to use a bit less goop.  I keep the unused bottle in the firdge and Ive had it work after 8 mo...

**Q: can you use organza fabric stretched on embroidery hoop? also is there a specific transparency you have to use? thanks**
A: I use an embroidery hoop all the time.  Stretch it as tightly as you can, then take an iron on the setting for silk (it’s very very low - a 2 on my iron), and gently & quickly iron - this tightens & smooths.  When your emulsion is dry & you are ready to print, remove it from the hoop, place on a board that is covered with a black piece of fabric, place stencil on top of your emulsion coated mesh, then place a piece of glass on top. 
Before you rinse it out, it helps to place it back on the hoop.  
The nice thing about this method is that you can store your designs nicely & when you want to use one, just place it back on the hoop to print. 
It works best with very small images.  Mine are usually 3inx3in., but I often print 3 on 1 hoop, & use them 1 at a time.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ so far so good
*by A***T on December 31, 2018*

I power mixed the emulsion with a drill and got a lot of air bubbles - IDIOT. Next I had some trouble spreading the emulsion, but, that was due to my test screen not having near enough tension, and, it was just my first try. After my little mess with the test screen, I coated my production screen, A professionally built and screened aluminum frame. That came out pretty good. You need to be able to fully spread the emulsion and then screed off any excess quickly. I made a nice clear plastic spreading tray but ended up using a 3" plastic bondo spreader with a sharp point to finish spreading and then screeding off excess emulsion. I am making smaller screens though. Spread front of screen, then screed, spread back, then screed. Inspect your screen, spread more, then screed off excess from front side and back side. Press the screed into the screen pretty hard, if you are getting a proper thin coat, you wont get any lines from making multi spreading and screeding passes. I will tell you this, watching youtube videos with pros spreading emulsion with a single front and back pass is pure fantasy. You are probably NOT going to be able to do this with one perfect spreading pass in front and one perfect spreading/screeding pass in back, so don't even worry about it. Be ready to do multiple passes front and back, but be ready to get it done quickly. This process works 100 times better if you got a professionally done and screened frame with the screen stretched super tight. I stretched my first frame myself and found it tough to get high enough screen tension, then I bought a cheap but good aluminum frame with pre-streatched screen and OMG, it was so much more easy and better. Spread and screed off your emulsion quickly, as if you take too long the emulsion starts to thicken up and then it gets very hard to screed off the excess. Thankfully, I found this out on my first test screen so I got right to it and finished quickly on my money screen and it came out PERFECT. Nice even thin coating and when it fully dried it was exactly as needed, no more thickness then the screen itself, and, that is exactly what you want. If you get excess thickness on your coated screen you will have problems with excess paint loading when doing your screen printing. Excess thickness was the problem I had with my first screen, not made with emulsion, but with a sheet of sticky vinyl with letters cut out. It worked OK, but was hard to get a nice prefect thin layer of ink/paint on my products as the vinyl, seemed thin enough but in reality, it was thicker then it should have been and when the screen thickness was added, it was laying down to thick a layer of screen printing ink [paint]. I'm so looking forward to using my screens made with this emulsion, screen printing should work so much better. ~

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reliable Results from Trusted Brand | Kit contains all chemicals needed
*by S***. on August 1, 2017*

I'm a hobbyist screenprinter, and basically just print once a year to make t-shirts for my family's annual reunion. I used to struggle with emulsifying and exposing correctly, but since I switched to this Diazo Kit last year I've been very happy and have had minimal problems. The kit comes with the photosensitive agent that must be mixed with water and added to the emulsion, which very easy to do and is not light sensitive during the prep, (which is a huge plus!) It says you can even coat the screen in regular light - although I haven't tried. Working under a yellow safe-light bulb, I've gotten good results and even coating with the Diazo. The emulsion itself is easy to work with: goes on very smoothly, dries quickly, and exposes evenly and pretty accurately to the included time guide. Also included in the kit is a large bottle of screen cleaner, which works exceptionally well to clean out screens that have been left emulsified even up to a year! I always run out of emulsion before screen cleaner - it seems like they could balance the proportions of the two components a little more evenly. My only complaint about this product is it's a little pricey compared to buying in bulk or purchasing the chemicals separately. I can get about 2-3 full screen coverages per emulsion bottle which is great for a hobbyist not printing often, but may use up quickly for someone printing more. Speedball Diazo Photo Emulsion Kit

### ⭐ Works great if fresh, will not work if you are shipped an old bottle!
*by C***J on May 3, 2024*

This emulsion kit has a small bottle of sensitizer which you add to the emulsion to make it light-sensitive. That sensitizer should be a gel (in fact the bottle warns you it will feel empty), and you add water to the gel. I've used the same kit before and it worked perfectly well. Unfortunately this arrived and the gel had dried into a powder. I tried everything I could to rehydrate/reconstitute it, and it just didn't work. I mixed as much as I could, but it never incorporated and the emulsion never worked correctly. You could see the tiny flakes of sensitizer and the emulsion didn't turn the correct color when mixed. This can happen in person, too; I bought this kit off Amazon because the week before I bought it at a craft store, and the one I took off the shelf was also dry and unusable. If you order this, immediately check the little sensitizer bottle when it arrives. If it's a bone-dry lump, don't bother mixing it. I generally like Speedball products just fine, but this specific emulsion kit has a lot of problems if aged.

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