Screenprint
スクリーンプリント／シルクスクリーン / 20th century– / Technique / Stencil Printing
Parts of a mesh screen are blocked and parts left open, and a squeegee forces ink through, printing hard contours and flat, strong color one layer at a time.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Hard contours
- Flat color planes
- Layer-by-layer overlap
- Slight misregistration
Best used for
- Small runs of posters and shirts that need fluorescent or spot inks at full strength
- Printing thick flat color onto cloth, wood or metal rather than paper
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Avoid hairlines and tiny text, thickening letters until the mesh clears them
- Composition
- Plan color count as screen count and let overlaps make a third color
- Material
- Match mesh to ink and substrate, allowing time for drying and registration
- Caution
- Do not fake it with a separation filter or treat misregistration and patchy ink as charm. Design screen count, print order, opacity, registration and substrate, because the hard edge is the real advantage.
- Further study
- serigraphy / squeegee / photo emulsion / Andy Warhol
Related entries
- Risograph (リソグラフ)Same Stencil Printing lineage.Compare Screenprint and Risograph
- Pop Art (ポップアート)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Play.Compare Screenprint and Pop Art
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