The screen printing process is a very versatile process, one of the porous printing methods. Basically the modern screen printing method is where the printer prepares a screen with an image on it and then passes ink through the screen onto the substrate using a squeegee. More complex designs may require a number of stencils, and printing in several colors requires at least one stencil for each color. First, the image is separated into the 3 subtractive primary colors and

black. This forms four images with the tones of their colors. After the rest of the process where a film positive and the mesh screen have been exposed to ultraviolet light, a stencil is produced that corresponds exactly to the image that was initially supplied.

Screen Printing can be traced to as far back as 2,500 B.

C., its origin being credited to the Japanese, the Chinese, the Egyptians, the Greeks and the early Fiji Islanders. Originally, primitive froms of screen printing were only used to print images onto fabrics. Now, screen printing is used on everything from billboards to electronic ciruit boards to textiles to decals. Basically any substrate can be printed on and it can be any size, shape design, or thickness.

In 1929, Louis F. D'Autremont, a man in the screen printing business in Ohio, developed Profilm, which was a knife-cut stencil that was not easy to cut or adhere. D'Autremont would eventually get into a legal battle over the patent rights with a man named Joe Ulano, who developed his own knife-cut stencil called Nufilm. D'Autremont won the legal battle and laid claim to the patent rights, however, his profilm wasn't as good

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