subject: What you should know about screen printing! [print this page] What you should know about screen printing!
Screen printingutilizes a kind of woven mesh which holds an ink-blocking stencil. This outlines the open area of the mesh. Ink is transferred through the sharp edged image to a surface known as substrate. When the screen stencil roller moves it pumps the ink to the open areas and the substrate is then printed with certain color.
Screen printing is utilized in the silk screening process. For this, a stencil imposes the design on the silk screen and the left over areas are set with a sealed material. The method of silk printing was a traditional one but now both silk and polyester are used for screen printing. Silk screening still remains popular and can be applied to stock which is not available with any other printing methods. This feature gives amazing effects that other methods do not offer.
Screen printing is utilized in the printing industry to manufacture many different items, and among the most popular are T-shirts. This is a perfect method for short as well as long-run printing. Large volumes can be set up on the printing drum but and for the small runs simple manual runs can be used.
Initially the method of screen printing was adopted by the artists to duplicate their work. This form has now become popular in commercial printing for images on CD and DVD covers, glassware, ceramics, hats, woodwork, metals, t-shirts, caps and much more.
Nowadays, graphic printing is also utilized by many people for the production of large production graphics, posters and the display stands. Screen printing is the best option when printing is done on the non-porous surfaces like ceramics, metals, bottles and cups. Businesses and corporations use this idea to place the corporate logo on gifts for clients as well as employees.
