Screen printing refers to the use of screen as a plate base, and through photographic plate making method, made with graphic screen printing plate. Screen printing consists of five elements: screen plate, scraper, ink, printing table and substrate. Use screen printing plate text part of the mesh through ink, non text part of the mesh can not be printed through the basic principle of ink. Printing in the screen printing plate into one end of the ink, with the scraper screen printing plate on the ink part of a certain pressure, at the same time toward the screen printing plate at a uniform speed, ink in the movement of the scraper from the mesh of the text part of the extrusion onto the substrate.

Advantages of screen printing:

(1) is not limited by the size and shape of the substrate

General printing, can only be carried out on the plane, and screen printing can not only be printed on the plane but also on special shapes such as spherical surface printing, shape things can be carried out with screen printing.

(2) the layout soft printing pressure is small

The silk screen is soft and elastic.

(3) strong ink layer covering force

It can be printed in pure white on all-black paper with strong three-dimensional sense.

(4) Suitable for various types of ink

(5) Strong optical rotation resistance

The gloss of the printed matter will not change. (Temperature and daylight had no effect). This makes printing some adhesive, without additional laminating and other processes.

(6) Flexible and diverse printing methods

(7) plate making is convenient, cheap and easy to master

(8) Strong adhesion

(9) Can be pure hand screen printing, also can be machine printing