Screen Printing In Plastic

Nowadays it has been able to print on plastic products with different surface textures different hardnesses and different shapes and is widely used.

Screen printing in plastic.

Screen printing or silk screening is a highly specialized process used to print on flat and flexible plastic surfaces. Screen printing on plastic is a wet process of decoration on flat plastic sheets or cylindrical plastic products. That means long production runs won t be cost effective in the digital inkjet printing arena. This printing process is suitable for short production runs.

Screen printing can also be used to decorate many plastic substrates like signs containers and point of purchase pop displays. Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil a blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh apertures with ink and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact. In this method blocked stencils are used on a soft silk mesh. Screen printing on plastic.

View our screen printing capabilities. If you need multicolor images it s fine to operate one pass for each color. This printing method is compatible with various types of plastic and produces bold bright firm and metallic colors that make your designs stand out. Ink will be pressed through the image burned into a silkscreen board to get your required image.

Printing on plastic products includes gravure printing flexographic printing screen printing anti counterfeiting printing and jet printing transfer printing etc special printing methods.