Traditional screen printing, also known as silkscreen printing, is a method that involves pushing ink through a stencil to create a design.

A fine mesh fabric is stretched tightly over a rectangular frame and coated with a light-sensitive emulsion. The artwork is separated by color, with each color printed onto a transparent film. Each film is then used to expose a different screen, hardening the emulsion in the light-exposed areas and leaving a stencil of the design where the ink will pass through.

The screen is placed over the surface to be printed, and ink is pressed through the mesh in the open areas of the stencil to form the design. This process is repeated for each color, with a high-temperature flash dryer used between layers to cure the ink temporarily.

Once all the colors have been printed, the item is run through a heat tunnel to fully cure and set the ink onto the fabric

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