Screen printing
Screen printing is a printing technique. It uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil has open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials. The ink or paint can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp image onto a material.
A fill blade or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing ink through the mesh openings.
Screen Printing Media
Home made screen for print copyleft tee-shirt.
The poster shop at Heart Mountain War Relocation Center was operated by Japanese-American internees who used the silkscreen method to print information for the entire center. (January 1943)
Video of Silk Screening process for decal paper to be pasted on the ceramic wares
Screen printers use a silkscreen, a squeegee, and hinge clamps to screen print their designs. The ink is forced through the mesh using the rubber squeegee, the hinge clamps keep the screen in place for easy registration.
Different samples of the printed image
A macro photo of a screen print with a photographically produced stencil. The ink will be printed where the stencil does not cover the substrate.
Hand-painted colour separation on transparent overlay by serigraph printer Csaba Markus
Screen with exposed image ready to be printed
