What is Screen Printing

Are you interested in the design on your perfume bottles or cosmetics or wine bottles?How did the manufacturers manage to get these beautiful designs on the bottles and keep the output so high?

Screen printing first appeared in a recognizable form in Chinaduring the Song Dynasty(960–1279 AD).Screen Printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer the ink onto a substrate.At that time Screen Printing only can print 1 colour 1 time if our ancestors want to print multi colours on the substrate is very difficult,that's means need to make more and more mesh and at that time had to print by hand with very low accuracy.But now in our time, thanks to the rapid development of technology and industry, screen printing has been freed from these limitations and is now a carousel type fully automatic screen printing machine for bottles made of plastic, glass, ceramics, etc., for round, oval, square and polygon shapes.Thanks to our visual positioning system, there is no need to worry about the accuracy of the colour register and it is possible to print six colours at a time with perfection or even more!

The quality of the finished screen print depends to a large extent on the quality of the printing ink, and the majority of printed bottles on the market today use UV ink. The difference between this ink and traditional inks are as follows.The characteristics of ordinary ink: has a certain degree of fluidity, and to meet the nature of various printing process required to be able to dry quickly on the print, the dried ink film should have a corresponding variety of water resistance, acid resistance, alkali resistance, light resistance, rub resistance, wear resistance and other resistance.The characteristics of uv inks are: brilliant colours (except in special cases), good printability and suitable curing and drying rates. It also has good adhesion and is resistant to abrasion, corrosion and weathering.

Thank you for reading this article carefully, if you have any questions about bottle screen printing please feel free to talk with me.I would love to share everything about bottle printing with you!