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Ink and printing paste

" How does the ink squeeze through the mesh past the stencil?

Enter the squeegee a flexible plastic blade in a handle. The
squeegee puts pressure on the ink and sends it past the fabric

threads. It leaves a thin layer of ink on the product and "shears
off" the excess. That's all there is to it! To print multiple colors, a
separate screen is needed for each color. For multi-colored
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products, such as T-shirts, multi-armed printers are used to hold
the colors to assure an exact line-up

Fig.28 Printing Paste

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