What is Silk Screen Printing? | Understanding the Process

In our video below  I am going to show you the process we go through  for silk screen printing onto garments.

This is how we do screen printing prints onto t shirts

First your logo is put onto our computer and a set of films are made.

 Next the films are exposed onto screens and washed out and dried.

A separate screen is also made for each colour in your design

Shirt printing machine

The screens are then setup precisely onto our screen printing machine and Inks are then added for each colour

The ink is then pushed through the screens onto the garment and then put through a dryer ready to be worn and washed again and again.

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How to screen print?

1. We prepare your artwork and make necessary colour separations to films.2.  We then Coat your screens with emulation.3. We then expose your screens with Light.4. We then push ink through the screens using special inks

What type of screen printing inks do we use?

Generally we use oil based plastisol inks and water based inks for

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Just wanted to drop you a quick message, thanking you for screen printing the t-shirt last Tuesday. I was very pleased with the final product, and impressed by your turnaround time. I’ll definitely be in touch again should I ever need t-shirt printing or some other products that you offer.
Cheers,
Asgeir

John Shaw
Designer
Just wanted to drop you a quick email to say that our Reading Festival bags were great – thank you so much.
Happy New Year!

Sarah Peesley
Designer