Silk Screening And Screen Printing - Introduction

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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