The squeegee is the other part of the basic screen printing equipment. In a manual and artisanal context, the frame and squeegee can be considered as the screen printing machine – the former supporting the image matrix to be printed and the latter operating actively and directly on the former, in order to reproduce that […]
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A stencil is the equivalent of a mold for an image, as a way to reproduce it identically without having to draw or paint it endlessly – a principle also common to a printing system. In this case, the image becomes the matrix. In the context of screen printing, this stencil refers to the screen
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The photosensitization stencil process requires an independent matrix, usually produced on transparent film – a so-called photolith, if generated photomechanically; or a slide/film positive, if generated manually or digitally. Currently, the term photolith is still used, derived from what was the lithographic photomechanical and which expanded to other printing techniques. A photomechanical process means that
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In screen printing, all choices depend, first and foremost, on the substrate. The substrate corresponds to the lower layer, which in a printing context refers to the surface to be printed, whether it is two-dimensional or three-dimensional. The chemical (composition) and physical (shape and roughness) characteristics of the substrate, as well as its intended purpose,
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