One of the four traditional Chinese printing - screen printing process

Disadvantages of screen printing

In terms of the quality of printed matter, the quality of screen printing is not better than offset printing, due to the use of screen printing and scraper operation (especially manual operation), you can not expect the print to have excellent quality assurance, but also need to be prepared psychologically, because manual screen printing may appear a lot of waste and defective products.

Mass production of screen printing products is relatively difficult, in offset printing a few minutes to complete the printing, in screen printing probably requires multiple hours.

Four-color overprint gradient images are not as easy to achieve in screen printing as offset printing.

In short, it may be more appropriate to understand screen printing as easier to complement ordinary offset printing, in special printing carriers or when different artistic effects are needed, screen printing is another choice that designers can try to apply.

The American "Screen printing" magazine commented on the Chinese screen printing technology: "There is evidence that the Chinese used horse hair and templates two thousand years ago. The clothing of the early Ming Dynasty attests to their competitive spirit and processing skills." The invention of screen printing has promoted the development of human material civilization in the world. Today, after two thousand years, screen printing technology continues to develop and improve, and has now become an indispensable part of human life.