screen printing emulsion

Los problemas con su emulsión de serigrafía pueden ser especialmente frustrantes: no puede obtener una buena impresión si tiene algún problema con la emulsión o exposición de su pantalla. En un blog anterior, cubrimos algunos problemas de exposición comunes y cómo solucionarlos. Si todavía tiene dificultades para crear, exponer y recuperar pantallas, aquí hay algunos […]

La recuperación de pantallas, marcos o bastidores serigráficos es una tarea esencial en cualquier taller de serigrafía, y el éxito de las impresiones futuras depende de la capacidad para recuperar las pantallas de la manera correcta. Cuando la recuperación los marcos no se realiza correctamente, puede enfrentarse a pequeños agujeros, roturas prematuras de la malla […]

How much ink you lay down on your screen prints will depend on your individual print job and your substrate. Too much ink on your substrate can lead to prints that bleed beyond the stencil edge, soak through the substrate or fail to cure completely. Too little ink can make the print too light, affect […]

For most screen printers, liquid emulsion is the preferred tool for coating screens to make stencils. There is an alternative that’s often overlooked and undervalued: capillary film. Capillary films are sheets of hardened emulsion on a polyester backing. The emulsion side of the film is applied directly to a wetted mesh screen. The emulsion forms a firm bond with the mesh as it dries, and the backing is peeled away. From there, the printer can expose a stencil much as they would a screen coated with liquid emulsion.

A quality screen print requires a quality stencil. That means using the right screen printing emulsion for your job. So what types of screen printing emulsions are there? How are they different? How do you determine which type of emulsion to use?