What is screen printing?

Screen printing, printing term, refers to screen printing. Screen printing is short for "screen printing". Silk fabric, synthetic fiber fabric or metal screen is stretched on the screen frame, and the screen printing plate is made of hand-carved paint film or photochemical plate making.

Modern screen printing technology is to use photosensitive materials to make screen printing plates by photographic plate making (making the screen holes in the graphic part of the screen printing plate be through holes, but the screen holes in the non-graphic part are blocked), such as plane carriers such as oil paintings, prints, posters, business cards, binding covers, commodity packaging, commodity signs, printing and dyeing textiles, glass and metal.

Screen printing has the advantages of large batch, low price, bright color, long shelf life and fast delivery, which is recognized by more and more industries and widely used. On the circuit boards of household appliances, patterns on textiles, patterns on T-shirts, T-shirts and shoes, characters on the panels of refrigerators, televisions and washing machines, and decorations on ceramics, glass, walls and tiles.

Characteristics of screen printing

1, there are many kinds of inks that can be used, including oily ink, water-based ink, resin ink, powder ink, foaming ink and other types of inks; Because of the thick ink layer and strong hiding power, light color can be printed on dark materials.

2. There are abundant printing materials, which can be printed on both plane and curved surface, that is, on hard materials, soft materials and elastic materials.

3. The printing pressure used in the printing process is small, so it can be printed on fragile products.

4. The shape and area of the substrate are not limited, and the application is very flexible, but different shapes and sizes have different printing operability and of course different prices.