What you Should Know About Screen Printing

Screen printing refers to the use of silk screen as a plate base, and through a photosensitive plate making method, made into a screen printing plate with pictures and texts. Screen printing consists of five elements, screen printing plate, squeegee, ink, printing table and substrate. Use the basic principle that the mesh of the graphic part of the screen printing plate can penetrate the ink, and the mesh of the non-graphic part cannot penetrate the ink for printing. When printing, pour ink on one end of the screen printing plate, use a squeegee to apply a certain pressure to the ink position on the screen printing plate, and at the same time move toward the other end of the screen printing plate at a uniform speed, the ink is moved by the squeegee from the image and text Part of the mesh is squeezed onto the substrate.

Screen Plate Making Equipment

Screen printing is to stretch silk fabric, synthetic fiber fabric or metal mesh on the screen frame, and use the method of hand engraving paint film or photochemical plate making to make the screen printing plate. Modern screen printing technology uses photosensitive materials to make a screen printing plate (make the screen holes of the graphic part of the screen printing plate through holes, and the screen holes of the non-graphic part are blocked. Live) oil paintings, prints, posters, business cards, bound covers, commodity packaging, commodity signs, printed and dyed textiles, glass and metal and other plane carriers.

Direct plate making

Method: The method of direct plate making is to first place the photosensitive film of the wrist base coated with photosensitive material on the work surface, and place the stretched wrist screen frame flat on the base, and then place it in the screen frame. Fill in the photosensitive paste and apply pressure with a soft squeegee. After it is fully dried, the plastic film base is removed, and the photosensitive film wrist screen can be used for printing. After development and drying, a screen printing screen is produced.

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