Screen Printing
Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a screen with open areas on a silk mesh, that transfers ink as a sharp-edged image onto the garments. The open areas of the silk mesh are your designs. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen, pumping ink through the opens areas of the silk stencil, and directly onto the garments. T-shirt Screen Printing involves separating each colour in the design and each colour is printed as a separate layer. The ink is squeezed through the screen and this process is repeated depending on the number of different colours in the design. Gradually the different colours all come together and a design is completed producing a lovely looking, quality and long lasting print. The more colours, the more expensive, as more screens are needed, and more colour applications are also needed. We have to produce a seperate screen for each colour and the colours are applied seperately.