Screen Printing

Process

Plate Making: Use fine denier yarn, polyester or nylon yarn, and weft weave into fine mesh cloth for plate making.
Plate Film: According to the design required by the customer, use plates of different sizes, apply photosensitive agent on the mesh and dry it for use.
Proofreading: After the artwork is designed, it undergoes a chemical exposure and photosensitive reaction to harden the non-printing areas on the mesh, blocking the mesh holes and hollowing out the areas that need to be printed. After the plate is made, a scraper is used to make the ink pass through the mesh and print on the printed fabric. Finally, it enters the oven to heat and lock the color.

Comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of screen printing

Advantage	Shortcoming
Screen printing is suitable for mass printing, which is better than digital direct printing. The large production volume can share the plate making costs.	Need to make a plate, one color one plate, the plate making fee will be higher as the more colors you design, the higher the plate fee
The printing fee is cheap, and it can print 1-7 colors. The printing fee is cheaper for 1-3 colors, and the fabric penetration is good.	Screen printing is not suitable for small-volume printing because the process is complicated and there will be basic machine costs.
Because the screen is painted by scraping the surface, the colored cloth can be painted directly, which is different from digital direct printing, which is limited to white or lighter colors.	Because there are mesh holes, the design of the line drawing must take the clarity of printing into consideration.