Archive for November, 2008
Modern screens no longer use silk, or human hair, to create the mesh through which inks are squeezed. Today nylon, polyester or dust like steel are used because they are materials that crapper be made into very dust like and uniforms threads or strands that make the mesh which is stretched taut over a frame. The mesh is then prepared with a coating to create an impermeable barrier which then has a stencil revilement out of it to make a model for the organization the inks module indicant on the artifact (or substrate) beneath.
There are different methods for creating the stencil. It could be made from an non-porous material that is adhered to the bottom of the screen to provide the ink block that module result in the organization printed; it crapper be painted on to the screen directly as a negative image using a filler or, by using drawing fluid and screen filler, a organization crapper be made with the drawing fluid washed away by spraying it with water thus leaving behind a design.
The most commonly used screen-printing advise is probably the flatbed though rotary and cylinder presses are also used for the process. When printing on textiles, multi-colour designs use a wet-on-wet technique where device colours module usually mix with darker colours if laid over top of them while wet and the technique therefore relies on painting from light colours up.