What Is A Screen Printer

What is a screen printing? 

Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a screen as a plate base to produce a screen printing plate with pictures and texts through a photosensitive method. Use the basic principle that the mesh of the graphic part of the screen printing plate can penetrate the ink, while the mesh of the non-graphic part can not. When printing, pour ink on one end of the screen printing plate, use a squeegee to apply a certain pressure to the ink position on the screen printing plate, and at the same time move toward the other end of the screen printing plate at a uniform speed, the ink is moved by the squeegee from the image and text Part of the mesh is squeezed onto the substrate. 

What is a screen printer

A screen printer is a type of printing machines machine that uses a screen printing plate to print. Screen printers are a representative printing equipment of the stencil printing machines. In addition to real silk, the silk screens can also be made of nylon, copper, or stainless steel wires. It can be divided into flat screen printers, curved screen printers, rotary screen printing machines and so on.

Screen printers are the simplest and cheapest printing equipment in the commercial printing industry. Of course, there are complicated automatic screen printers which are more expensive as well as simple, manual and cheap screen printers. And their prices vary largely. A screen printer consists of five major elements: screen printing plate, squeegee, ink, printing table and substrate. 

Features of a screen printer

1. Prints made through screen printing equipment has good ink adhesion, thick ink layer, non-fading, good weatherability, and bright color.

2. A screen printing machine has a unique frequency conversion speed regulator, and its printing speed ranges from 20 to 70 prints per minute.

3. Screen printing machines are very accurate for alignment and color registration. Because they are equipped with multi-color printing electric eye devices, which can improve the quality of printing.

4. The high-quality configuration of the screen printing machines also helps save a lot of consumables.

5. Screen printing machines usually have their own electronic counters, which can automatically shut down according to the pre-designed total number, saving manpower and money.

6. The screen printing machine can not only be used alone, but also can be connected to a UV dryer, or a slitting machine, a rewinder and other auxiliary machines for use;