Screen printing is more versatile than
traditional printing techniques. The surface does not have to be printed under
pressure, unlike etching or lithography, and it does not have to be planar.
Different inks can be used to work with a variety of materials, such as
textiles, ceramics, wood, paper, glass, metal, and plastic. As a result, screen
printing equipment is used in many different industries. Most screens are ready
for re-coating at this stage, but sometimes screens will have to undergo a
further step in the reclaiming process called dehazing. This additional step
removes haze or "ghost images" left behind in the screen once the emulsion
has been removed. Ghost images tend to faintly outline the open areas of
previous stencils, hence the name. They are the result of ink residue trapped
in the mesh, often in the knuckles of the mesh (the points where threads
cross).
We are the world’s largest manufacturer of
screen printing equipment, with a wide variety of screen printing machines,
ancillary silk screen printing products, and screen printing supplies &
parts. Products include automatic screen printing presses; manual t-shirt
presses; computer-to-screen imaging machines; screen exposure units; gas
conveyor dryers; infrared conveyor dryers; flash cure units; t-shirt folders
and baggers; and genuine pallets & platens.
