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Article: A powerful printing process maintains its strong presence in the narrow web industry.(Screen Printing)
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- Label & Narrow Web
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- September 1, 2009
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Screen printing is an old process, and widely used in industrial, decorative, and artistic markets the world over. Textiles, particularly clothing, rely heavily on the screen printing process for decorations from the most simple to the complex. Packaging also has its share of the screen market, and today we are seeing the growth of this print process in an emerging industry: printed electronics.
The single greatest advantage that screen printing has over all other production printing processes is in the volume of ink that can be laid onto a substrate. UV letterpress can deposit ink as thick as 2 to 3.5 microns; UV offset is 1.5 to 2.5 microns; gravure is 2 to 5 ...