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Article: Screen printing: old technology but right up to date.(technique explanation)(Tutorial)
- Article from:
- British Plastics & Rubber
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Screen printing has been used on plastics mouldings from the very beginning. During that time new printing technologies such as flexo, offset, pad printing and digital printing have evolved. But as the European Screenprinting Manufacturers' Association points out, screen printing has kept pace against these new technologies with the variations in surface texture, rigidity, size and shape which have driven printing development.
SCREEN PRINTING is the most versatile of the graphic processes with the ability to print a variety of inks and coatings on to many sizes and shapes of widely differing substrates. This versatility is the reason why it is still dominant in ...