Product Decoration Guide: Screen Printing
SCREEN PRINTING FACTS
- When printing light colours (e.g. yellow) on dark garments it is necessary to print a white base underneath.
- Screens are cleaned off and used for other designs. This is why repeat jobs need to be set up again.
- Surfaces with undulating textures cause screen printers the most concerns
- Depending on the design, normal halftone reproduces at 45-65 dots per inch.
- The industry standard reject rate for screen printing is about 1-2%
- Four colour process printing on fabric or nylon is not the same quality as offset printing
- Items multiple layers of fabric thick cannot be printed in more than one colour. The product may move before the next colour is applied and accurate registration is not possible.
- Printing “around the side” or “off the edge” of shirts is not possible. Products need to be laid flat in order to print.
- Whenever possible, a sample should be sent with repeat orders to ensure an identical product
- Garments cannot be printed across a seam. If a print up to the seam is required, the flat panels should be printed before the item is made up.
(Courtesy of JEM Promotional Products ©2007)
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