If you want to process the fabric screen printing in your textile industry or if you like to know about the screen printing mesh, then you have to know about – “how to produce the screen printing screen.”
There are different ways for screen production. But the most famous textile screen producing method is Photo Chemical Process.
In this post I will tell you the screen production by photo chemical process.
Steps of Producing Textile Screen Printing Screen
1. Firstly take a piece of Screen Fabric or screen printing mesh.
2. Now stretch and attaché the screen fabric with a metal or wood frame strictly.
3. Now take the photochemical polymeric materials and coat these chemicals in the screen fabric.
4. Dry the fabric in order to stable the chemical in the surface of fabric.
5. Now a negative of Screen Design is attached on the surface of the Screen Fabric. Provided that, the printed portion of the fabric would be exposed to the light.
6. Now pressure is to be applied on the screen fabric by using foam.
7. Now expose the screen fabric to the UV (Ultra-Violet) rays for 4 – 5 minutes.
8. Now rinse with the cold water.
The steps mentioned above are the screen printing screen producing methods. It is worth mentioning that, the screen fabric is made of Glass fiber or Nylon fiber.
When you will choose the screen fabric; then there are lots of options for you. But be careful on choosing the screen fabric because every single screen fabric might have different threads per cm. For instance, Terry Toweling is 19 – 34 threads/cm and for synthetic fabrics are 55 – 100 threads per cm.
The open area of Screen fabrics is different in various fabrics. For example, if you choose the outlines, half tones and fine design then the open area of screen fabric would be 41 to 34. Choosing the design of Small Motif applied the screen fabrics open area to 41 –34
