Fellas Silk Screen Printing

As a customer, sometimes you wonder, “HOW DO THEY DO IT?”. Well, we thought we’d put together a 101 on-screen printing to educate our customers. he technical term for screen printing is “ serigraphy ”. Screen printing is also known as “silk screening.” It is the process of pressing ink through a fine mesh screen, and the screen will allow ink to pass through in certain areas and will block it in others. The Chinese first used the screen printing technique nearly thousands of years ago. The Japanese adopted the screen printing process using woven silk to create the mesh. Silk has not been used commonly as it used to, but polyester has been used since the 1940s and is by far the most common type of screen mesh used today. Let’s go over some basic fundamentals of making a print… Artwork It starts with an idea, then comes artwork. The artwork is then converted into a digital format. Designs are converted dark black before getting outputted onto a film, no matter what color your designs are