Screen printing is a technique in which ink is applied directly to the surface to be printed and this surface is called the substrate. The image to be printed is photographically transferred to the screen so that areas not be printed are blocked and the tissue is used as a stencil. A roller moves across the screen stencil, the ink pump to the threads of the net woven in the open areas.
A stencil method of printmaking requiring a drawing on the screen surface of the silk, ink is forced on the printing surface through the cracks and pristine areas are covered with an impermeable substance is known to silk-screen printing or silk screening.
During the reign of the Song dynasty in China, screen printing emerged as recognizable. Japan and other Asian countries have begun to use this method of printing and advanced further by using it in conjunction with paints and printing block.Asia brought the painting to the screen for Western Europe in the late 1700s but the screen painting has not been widely used in Europe due to unavailability of mesh silk here and there began gain wider acceptance in a mesh of silk trade with Asia are easily accessible and also other mediums that may be used have been developed.
In the United States, screen printing has been popularized by artist Andy Warhol, the actress Marilyn Monroe screen printed in 1962. A rotary machine was patented by Michael Vasilantone in 1960 to print logos and information on clothing from the bowling team, but soon started printing on t-shirts.He was soon licensed by many manufacturers for the screen printing of garments manufacturing of rotary printing machine garment as a popular device for screen printing. In the United States, screen printing on garments account for almost half the business of screen printing.
The screen printing was developed as an industrial technology, but it has been adopted by the artist to express and repeated as a way to reproduce their works before 1900.This is a very popular both in commercial printing and also by artists and is used to print images on various media such as CDs and DVDs, glassware, ceramics, hats, work on wood, metal, t-shirts and caps....
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