Screen Printing Applications

Since the human has been aware of Screen Printingprinting different colorful patterns over textiles which
as a printing technique and understood its techniqueswere used for the purpose of decoration.
and tools, different application for such a techniqueDuring the First World War, this technique was used
has been evolving continuously. The first application,massively for the production of banners and flags
according to historians, is accredited to the cave manwhich were requested in large numbers. And then
who used his hands as stencils to paint differentScreen Printing was used for the production of
shapes using the available tools at his environment.expensive wall papers. But different artists noticed
No one for sure knows the reason for thesethe different capabilities this technique has such as its
paintings as some presume they are for mererepeatability and its capability of reproducing their
decorations while others suggest they are for somedesigns. And they started to employ it in their
religious ceremonies.expressive visual works.
A variant of this technique was used in ancient chinaAnd with the flourishing of the commercial advertising
for book printing. It used wooden blocks that haveand the awareness of its importance, different
the letters shape and some decorative patterns. Suchadvertising companies resorted to this technique for
technique of printing facilitated the process ofthe production of advertisements. Their choice was
producing books in great numbers, as it was muchas a result of the easiness of employing this
faster and easier than the common used way oftechnique for mass produced or repeated
copying the books by hand, which consumed a lot ofadvertisements and its low cost. It was first used by
effort and time.chain shops to produce their banners and wall
Another variant, where stencils of different materialsadvertisements. And then, it was employed for the
and shapes were employed, was used for religiousprinting of different ads over buses, labels and CD
purposes. Religious images were printed in largecovers. And by the continuous development, it was
numbers to be distributed over those who believe infound that this technique can be used to print a
that religion. Another application for the same variantmultitude of materials no matter what size or shape
was for decorating walls or other materials wherethey have. This encouraged different industries to
different patterns were used repetitively to producemake use of it such as textile, clothing, packaging
the required design.and electronic industries.
And with the continuous development of ScreenAnd with a quick look around, many products that
Printing, which was known first as silk screen, and itsemploy this technique can be found. Ads, wall papers,
existence in a form that is close to its current form,t-shirts, bags, caps and other different decorative
new application started to evolve. This technique wasitems include prints that are screen printed.
used for printing textiles. It was mainly used for