Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is the key to many screen printers’ livelihoods. That compound is the primary component of plastisols used by most of the textile-printing industry....
Increasing profits and expanding product lines are two issues on the minds of many business owners in today’s competitive world of screen printing. Breaking away from...
It’s true: Colors do change with screen printing. Find out why and what you can do about it. Our definition of printing is "replicating original...
Metallic gold and silver inks are very popular among buyers of printed goods, but these inks remain an enigma–and occasionally a nuisance–to many of the screen...
Thanks to formable, stretchable plastics, our lives have been enriched by such products as Silly Putty and Creepy Crawlers. Who hasn’t marveled at images that become...
On the surface (pun intended), garment screen printing seems like a simple process. We slide a squeegee across an ink-covered screen and the ink transfers to...
One of the least agreeable side effects of the digital revolution is that it has made consumables more complicated. In pre-digital days, the choice of inks...
Ultraviolet (UV) curing technology and its use in screen printing has evolved from infancy in the 1960s to maturity in the 1990s. Improvements in raw materials...
One of the least favorite places on the planet for every printer, and the one that holds the most potential for disasters, is the inkroom. Usually,...
Printing process-color graphics with water-based UV inks offers real benefits in terms of reducing the ink buildup that can occur with conventional UV inks. However, using...