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A brief analysis of quality of printing in different substrates based on screen printing process


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1 Associate Professor & HoD, Department of Printing Engineering, Jadavpur University, Salt-lake Campus, Kolkata – 700106,, India
2 Technical Executive, ITC Limited, Munger, India
     

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Screen Printing is a traditional and versatile process of transferring ink. A thick layer
of ink can be deposited by this process which makes it ideal to print on broad range
of substrates (both on porous & non porous). The purpose of this analysis is to focus
on the quality of print on four different types of substrates: Paper, Plastics, Textile
and Ceramic based on screen printing process. The work has been done using three
different screen mesh of screen ruling 60, 120, 180 l/cm and two different squeegees of shore hardness: 60 shore A° & 90 shore A° to find out the factors influence the quality and probable solutions to achieve sharp and fine output with less amount of wastage.

Keywords

Screen printing, Screen ruling, Thread count, Mesh opening, EOM, Paper, PVC, Textile, Ceramic
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Authors

Soumen Basak
Associate Professor & HoD, Department of Printing Engineering, Jadavpur University, Salt-lake Campus, Kolkata – 700106,, India
Rahul Kundu
Technical Executive, ITC Limited, Munger, India

Abstract


Screen Printing is a traditional and versatile process of transferring ink. A thick layer
of ink can be deposited by this process which makes it ideal to print on broad range
of substrates (both on porous & non porous). The purpose of this analysis is to focus
on the quality of print on four different types of substrates: Paper, Plastics, Textile
and Ceramic based on screen printing process. The work has been done using three
different screen mesh of screen ruling 60, 120, 180 l/cm and two different squeegees of shore hardness: 60 shore A° & 90 shore A° to find out the factors influence the quality and probable solutions to achieve sharp and fine output with less amount of wastage.

Keywords


Screen printing, Screen ruling, Thread count, Mesh opening, EOM, Paper, PVC, Textile, Ceramic

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24906/isc%2F2022%2Fv36%2Fi3%2F213769