Printing Stretching Screens with Easy Frame: Screen printing is a technique of creating design on an object called as Substrate in term of screen printing with the help of colorants which pass through holes of a screen. Screen is the most important thing in screen printing and more than process of screen printing is about preparation of stenciled screen for screen printing.
Now how these screen-printing screens are prepared? This question is solved over here and you will learn how to prepare screen for screen-printing tee shirt, how to screen print badges, how to screen print cards, how to screen print logo, how to screen print plastic bottles and how to screen print metallic substrates and how to screen print wooden object.
Process of Screen Printing
You will learn all the process of screen printing in details from making of screen-printing screen to reclaiming of screen-printing screen. First thing is preparation of screen which is being told in this screen printing lesson.
Preparation of screen-printing screen:
For preparation of screen printing screen you need a frame it may be wooden or aluminum frame, wooden frame are classical screen printing frames and are cheaper easily available in market and can run for years if you take good care of the frames. Aluminum Frame are modern screen printing frame a little bit costly than wooden frames but they can serve as long as you are in business of screen printing.
Polyethylene Synthetic Material
Then next object is mesh made of silk or Polyethylene synthetic material. We recommend you to buy the polyethylene mesh as they have uniform holes sizes and shapes which results in sharp impression of the screen prints on you screen printed tee shirts and especially for those screens printing article which have high definition likes registration marks, labels, signage and logos so on. These screen printing mesh are available in variety of pores sizes some holes are bigger which result less number of pores per square inch like 100 mesh type etc. some meshes have smaller hole sizes and hence they have greater number of pores/sq. inch.
Former type of mesh is used for big designs and thick screen printing inks; later types of meshes are used for detailed and critical screen print and dilute inks. About how to stretch a mesh on screen in the most appropriate way for excellent screen printing watch this screen printing lesson now.
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