What is screen printing?

Screen printing is short for screen printing. Screen printing is to stretch silk fabric, synthetic fiber fabric or metal screen on a screen frame, and make a screen printing plate by hand carving paint film or photochemical plate making.

Screen printing uses the principle of screen printing, which mainly means that the mesh of the screen can penetrate ink when the graphic part of the printing material is printed, but the mesh of the screen cannot penetrate ink when the non-graphic part of the printing material is printed. The full name of screen printing is screen printing. As the name implies, it is to engrave a screen printing plate and then print it. It is mainly composed of screen printing plate, ink, printing table, scraper and substrate.

Screen printing is a printing process, which is mainly used to make plane carriers such as commodity packaging, business cards, oil paintings, printing and dyeing textiles and glass. Screen washing originated in China, and there was a clip printing method as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties. As a great invention of China, it not only promoted the development of human material civilization in the world, but also became an indispensable part of human life after two thousand years.