Screen Printing
The Screen Print Process
Screen printing is a traditional process that involves using a mesh-based stencil to transfer ink to a substrate, a screen is made by attaching mesh to a frame and placing a stencil underneath.
Using a blade or squeegee, ink is moved across the screen and forced through the mesh and onto the printing surface to create an image, pattern or text. It produces a pre-digital quality that is ideally suited to textile printing, but can be used in any medium. It requires incredibly precise machinery (or a very steady hand!) to make sure that the colours register match each other.
Screen printing is an effective way to achieve superior colour vibrancy and produces superb results on a range of surfaces including those that are often too difficult to be printed on via the use of a digital print machine, such as Metal and Wood.
Screen printing is also still sometimes called silk screen because in the early days of screen printing silk was used, exploiting its high tensile strength, but nowadays synthetic fibres usually polyester are used to form the mesh.
