Operational knowledge about screen printing mesh

There are usually two types of screen printing mesh, manual printing and mechanical printing. Manual printing refers to the movement from the paper to the delivery, the upper and lower movement of the plate, the screen printing mesh in Guangdong, and the scraping and squeegee are all manual operations. Mechanical printing means that the printing process is done by mechanical action.

It is divided into semi-automatic and fully automatic printing. Semi-automatic means that the substrate is placed and removed

by manual operation, and printing is done by mechanical; fully automatic means that the entire printing process is completed by machinery.

Screen printing mesh is to stretch silk fabric, synthetic fiber fabric or metal mesh on the frame, and make screen printing by hand-painting or photochemical plate making.

The modern screen printing mesh technology uses a photosensitive material to make a screen printing mesh plate by photolithography (so that the screen hole of the graphic portion on the screen printing plate is a through hole, and the mesh hole of the non-image portion is blocked. Live) oil paintings, prints, posters, business cards, binding covers, merchandise packaging, merchandise signs, printing and dyeing textiles, glass and metal plane carriers.