Decorate your T-shirts, hats and glassware, create posters and album covers - all with silkscreening!
Silk screening is also known as screen printing, or serigraphy and it is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged image (a screenprint or serigraph) by using a stencil. Silk screening is currently popular both in fine arts and in commercial printing, where it is commonly used to print images on T-shirts, hats, CDs, DVDs, ceramics, glass, polyethylene, polypropylene, paper, metals, and wood.
Because the basic screen printing materials are affordable and readily available, silk screening has been used to create movie posters, record album covers, flyers, commercial fonts in advertising, etc.
Graphic screen printing is widely used today to create many mass or large batch produced graphics, such as posters or display stands. Full color prints can be created by printing in CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black). Screen printing is more popular than other printmaking processes such as dye sublimation or inkjet printing because of its low cost and ability to print on many types of media.
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- poutine poutine Feb 12, 2009 @ 12:23 pm
- Excellent explanation on the silk screening process.
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- Deadicated Deadicated Nov 29, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
- Ink runs through my vein, and I love your lens; great job.
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- lax1982 lax1982 Mar 8, 2008 @ 11:11 am
- Cool lens. I like it because this is where I started out screen print as fun hobby like this and now have a whole shop. A little of the fun has worn off but I still love it!
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