Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas.

Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silk screening or serigraphy.

Printing Material 

Traditionally silk mesh was used for screen-printing, hence the name silk screening. Currently synthetic threads are commonly used in the screen printing process the most popular mesh in general use is made of polyester. There are special use mesh materials of nylon and stainless steel available to the screen printer 


Printing Meshes Provided by Share Filtration 

Share Filtration provides most-commonly used printing mesh for most of printing applications, printing meshes from Share Filtration include: polyester monofilament printing mesh, polyester multifilament printing mesh, nylon monofilament printing mesh, nylon multifilament printing mesh, stainless steel printing mesh. For polyester printing mesh, white, yellow and black colors are available, usually polyester printing mesh in yellow are over 200 threads per inch.