Screen printing is often preferred over other processes such as dye sublimation or inkjet printing because of its low cost and ability to print on many types of media.Ī screen is made of a piece of porous, finely woven fabric (originally silk, but typically made of polyester since the 1940s) stretched over a frame of aluminum or wood. Full colour prints can be created by printing in CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black). Graphic screen printing is widely used today to create many mass or large batch produced graphics, such as posters or display stands.
#Screen printing photo emulsion over a stencil movie
Since rudimentary screen printing materials are so affordable and readily available, it has been used frequently in underground settings and subcultures, and the non-professional look of such DIY culture screen prints have become a significant cultural aesthetic seen on movie posters, record album covers, flyers, shirts, commercial fonts in advertising, and elsewhere. The Printer's National Environmental Assistance Center says "Screen printing is arguably the most versatile of all printing processes". It is currently popular both in fine arts and in commercial printing, where it is commonly used to print images on t-shirts, caps, CDs & DVDs, ceramics, glass, polyethylene, polypropylene, paper, metals, and wood. It began as an industrial technology, and was then adopted by American graphic art well before the 1900s. A screen print or serigraph is an image created using this technique. Screen printing, silkscreening, or serigraphy is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged image using a stencil.
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