Page 10 - SCREEN PRINTING FOR BEGINNERS

INTRODUCTION TO SCREEN PRINTING

Define Screen Printing

A form of printing in which a thick

paste ink is forced through a stencil
attached to a finely-woven mesh
screen, transferring ink to the desired
substrate in those areas not covered
by the stencil. Screen printing, also
known as screen process and

serigraphy, is used to print almost
any surface imaginable, from T-shirts
and other textiles to posters to signs
to tablecloths to shower curtains to
leather goods... At one time called
silkscreening (and, more obscurely,
"fabritecture" and "mythography"), as
the screen through which the ink

was forced was made of silk, the
term is no longer in use in the screen
printing industry.

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