The Silkscreen Printing is a technique that allows decorating any material. It is basically a stretched mesh that transfers the ink into a support by blocking the parts that will not be colored. The use of several complementary meshes will lead to multi-coloured finishings in which each colour is a different layer. For example in order to printing a rainbow we would use seven meshes, one for each colour of the rainbow that has to be filtered.<\/p>\n
Printing by silkscreen comes from an older technique, the stenciled, which is based on a very simplistic concept: cutting a shape into a material in order to allow the ink to trespass only in that area. This selective printing method has been use for millenia and has appeared in different cultures throughout history.<\/p>\n
The oldest templates have been discovered in Fidji, where 5,000 years ago banana leaves where hollowed in order to decorate fabrics. A similar technique was used in caves in the Pyrenees, and Egypcian stenciled vases and murals in 2,500 b.C.<\/p>\n
It was in the Far East where a quality leap was made towards silkscreen printing. The texts founded provide details on how, before silk was used, stretched hairs where glued to a paper and lacquered. Modern silkscreen is quite alike, using a stretched mesh through which ink is filtered in those unvarnished areas.<\/p>\n
It is during the 20th Century, mostly in the US, when screen printing becomes an industrial process, specially for commercial purposes. In the age of standarization, silkscreen printing offers a series of advantages<\/strong>: all printed copies have exactly the same quality and definition because meshes do not wear out (as oposed to other printing techniques); it is also a versatile technique that will adapt to any product or material. There are also some disadvantages, mostly\u00a0the fact that you need one mesh for each colour, complicating a printing for elaborated designs. This is why screen printing is mainly used for special finishings and effects such as glow, glitter, varnish…<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ask us<\/a><\/strong> anything or subscribe<\/a><\/strong> and get all the updates (once a month, the rest of the time we are busy printing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Silkscreen Printing is a technique that allows decorating any material. It is basically a stretched mesh that transfers the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grifoll.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grifoll.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grifoll.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grifoll.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grifoll.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grifoll.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grifoll.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grifoll.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grifoll.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grifoll.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Main Silkscreen applications:<\/h3>\n
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