The author will with wire mesh material as the hole of the printing plate bearing body is called "silk screen printing, silk screen printing technology in printing industry is called" screen printing ";In textile printing and dyeing industry is called "screen printing".Although both in the English language are "SCREEN PRINTNG", but because our country industry habits tend to share very clear, not easy to change at one time."Print" and "printed" outstanding common is "printing", although their production process equipment and printed materials such as have many differences, but they "printing" and the basic principle of plate material, plate making process is similar or consistent.Because silk screen print coverage is very broad, distributed in all walks of life, production and processing the types and varieties of statistics;At the same time due to the blocking of the industry, the lack of communication for a long time so it there is a certain stage of development, the development of the silk screen printing in the different industries there are many gaps.
      Silk screen printing originated from ancient China, there are about two thousand years of history, in the mid - 1950 - s to start mass production of silk printing for textiles."Screen printing" the industrialization development of late, starting in the late 1970 s and early '80 s."Screen printing" extremely wide range of aspects, this article will give priority to with textile screen printing, silk screen printing applications, technical features and textile printing technology.

Silk screen printing applications

      As a professional processing technology of screen printing, industry boundaries in the planned economy period is very clear.After reform and opening up, gradually broke the boundaries, across industries use silk screen printing in the related products, thus forming a kind of special industry in all walks of life are.It is the feature of enterprise scale is not large, highly decentralized, can roughly be classified into the following several aspects.

     1) needle textile silk screen printing.Data show that in the international screen printing screen printing industry textiles accounted for about 50% of the above, it involves in People's Daily life clothing, decorations, bedding, upholstery, toiletries, shoes, caps, etc., as well as the flag and propaganda.

     2) circuit board and membrane switch.The rising of it is silk screen printing, the development is proceed from the 1960 s, with the rapid development of electronic industry, the increasing of the application components and innovation, the industry developing rapidly, and involves a wide range, can say, for a variety of electronic products is inseparable from the silk screen printing.

     3) plastic products.Including soft plastic and hard plastic, children's toys are so common, BeiZhong bags and some notions and containers, such as bottles, cans, boxes, etc.

     4) packing materials silk screen printing.Several kinds of its material, gauge type variety, paper, wood, synthetic material, there are metal and plastic, etc., variety.

    5) large-format ads and posters.General poster is give priority to in order to offset printing, pattern is colourful bright, rich color levels, but it is the area of printing limitations.At the same time require larger print runs.Silk screen printing can make up for its weakness, suitable for small batch printing, and large screen printing to break the limit of offset printing format.Although the application time is not long, but development is faster.

    6) ceramic decal paper and transfer printing paper.About their history in 20 years or so, the former belongs to the ceramics industry, the latter due to the transfer printing technique diversification, application field is sparse.

     7) signs, nameplate, and CARDS.With silk screen printing on various materials such as metal, plastic, wood surface printing text, images, symbols, line, etc, made of all kinds of signs, CARDS, many types of printing products can be seen everywhere.

    8) silk screen print art field.The European and American countries put the silk screen printing is divided into two categories: industrial screen printing and screen printing of fine arts.Art silk screen printing is in active development in our country, it is not popular.
Silk screen printing on the glass, leather decorative aspect also has a wide range of applications, using the anti-counterfeiting ink printing anti-counterfeiting mark and CD printing are also adopted the silk screen printing technology.