What Is Silk Screen Printing – Advantages, History And Differences Of Silk Printing

We all know that there are many processes of clothing, such as silk screen printing, digital direct spraying, hot stamping, embroidery, and so on. Choose different processes according to different needs, to achieve the best wearing feeling. No matter what kind of technology, it has a long history. Let’s talk about silk screen printing today, including its advantages, history, and differences.

What is silkscreen printing?

Silk screen printing belongs to orifice printing. The simple understanding is to use screen glue to seal the excess screen area, leave the required image or text, and transfer the ink to the substrate through the holes of the orifice plate through a certain pressure to form an image or text. The substrate of silk screen printing can be numerous substrates such as paper, wood, glass, metal, plastic, and so on.

As each pattern has to be opened, the cost of silk screen printing is slightly higher. It is recommended that people with large demand choose silk screen printing. The next step is to print the pattern on the garment through scraper and ink, brush again and again. If a pattern has several colors, it needs to be repeated many times, so other patterns with more colors can be considered

Why choose silk screen printing

The reason why silk screen printing is so widely used is that compared with hot stamping, silk screen printing has no colloidal feeling and air permeability. It has a very good experience in both touch and wear. For the expressiveness of the pattern, the effect of silk screen printing is better, the pattern is clear and colorful. For silk screen printing, it is the best choice for summer printing. Hot stamping is inevitably a little boring, but when there are many pattern colors, it is better to choose other ones.

Does silkscreen printing have a history

silk screen printing originated in China and made continuous progress with the advancement of the times. silk-screen printing was popular in the United States in the mid-1950s, that is, pop art. There is a very famous painter in pop art, Andy hall. Most of Andy’s most famous work Marilyn Monroe is made by hand through silk-screen printing.

Will the screen printed pattern falls off

As long as the clothes are washed normally, the pattern basically won’t fall at present. In order to prevent the pattern from falling, the ink is strictly controlled, so it will not fall and fade.

What are the advantages of silk screen printing

silk screen printing is suitable for most fabrics and various patterns. The patterns are soft and breathable. It has excellent comfort and strong pattern adhesion in summer. There is no need to worry about falling patterns.

What is the difference between UV printing and silk screen printing

From the process characteristics:

The color types of silk screen printing are relatively few because the silk screen printing glass can only screen one color at a time. UV printing can be printed at one time, without making another screen, just need to draw the computer map. At the same time, silkscreen glass can not make gradient color, UV printing can print the pattern with bright color and beautiful pictures, and the gradient color can be printed at one time.

Finally, for the adhesion of printing color, silk screen printing ink will add a curing agent to the glass surface during silk screen printing, so that the ink can be better absorbed on the glass surface and will not fall off without scraping with sharp tools. Although UV printing will spray a layer of coating similar to the curing agent on the glass surface, it will also fall off easily, especially with the passage of time, The printed pattern will fall off layer by layer.

Glass silk screen printing is generally used in electronic products with high requirements for silk screen printing. The silk screen printing technology used in home appliance glass can ensure that the ink will not fall off for a long time. UV printing is often used in some home glass decorations, such as sliding doors, which brings beautiful visual enjoyment to our home.

From the printing principle

The UV identification label printer adopts piezoelectric inkjet printing, and the silk screen printing adopts contact printing.

In terms of pollution degree:

UV label printer belongs to environmental protection and green printing, and silk screen printing belongs to high pollution printing;