| Screen printing is the most multipurpose process | | | | Screen printing presses are of three main kinds viz:o |
| among all the printing processes. It is utilized on | | | | The flat bedo Cylindero Rotary |
| different mediums of substances like paper, paper | | | | Flat bed and cylinder presses |
| board, metals, fabrics, and numerous other | | | | Flat bed is one of the most widely used types of |
| substances like plastics, glass, nylon and even cotton. | | | | screen printing. The flat bed and the cylinder press |
| The products produced as finished goods from the | | | | have the same features that are they both use flat |
| printing press include a wide range of products like | | | | screens as well as a three step reciprocating process |
| posters, labels, signage and all types of textiles and | | | | of performing the printing operation. The screen is |
| electronic boards. | | | | moved onto the substrate, then the squeegee is |
| The main merit which makes screen printing stand | | | | pressed on the mesh and taken over the image area, |
| apart from rest of the other printing process | | | | and finally the screen is taken away from the |
| methods is that it can print on different surfaces of | | | | substrate thus ensuring the completion of the |
| any shape, size. Another important merit | | | | process. Using the flat-bed press the thing to be |
| encompassed in the screen printing is that a thicker | | | | printed is placed on a horizontal print bed parallel to |
| ink can be used than the other printing techniques. | | | | the screen. In case of the cylinder press the thing to |
| This feature facilitates some of the very interesting | | | | be printed is placed on the cylinder. |
| designs which are not practicable in other forms of | | | | Rotary screen presses |
| the printing. The application process of the technique | | | | These presses are developed to facilitate a |
| is so simple that it facilitates a wider usage of inks | | | | continuous, high speed web printing. The screens in |
| and dyes for its usage in screen printing than the | | | | these presses are very thin metal cylinders. The |
| other printing press usage options. | | | | cylinders are open ended and they are covered at |
| With the utilization of the screen printing, the | | | | both the ends and these covers are fitted in blocks |
| production rates have improved this also implies that | | | | in the side of the press. In the course of printing the |
| screen printing is a quick process too and it is more | | | | ink is pumped into through one end of the cylinder so |
| flexible. This is an outcome of the development of | | | | that there is continuous inflow of the ink. The |
| the rotary printing press, better inventions of dryers, | | | | squeegee is a continuous free floating bar inside the |
| and U.V curable ink. The chemicals which are utilized in | | | | cylinder. The pressure of the squeegee is maintained |
| the screen printing process are the screen emulsions, | | | | by the magnet bars which are placed under the press |
| inks, and solvents, surfactants, caustics and oxidizers | | | | bed. These are most often used for printing textiles, |
| used in screen reclamation. | | | | wallpapers and other substances which require |
| Types of screen printing presses | | | | unbroken continuous patterns. |