A<\/a>\u00a0B<\/a>\u00a0C<\/a>\u00a0D<\/a>\u00a0E<\/a>\u00a0F<\/a>\u00a0G<\/a>\u00a0H<\/a>\u00a0I<\/a>\u00a0J<\/a>\u00a0K<\/a>\u00a0L<\/a>\u00a0M<\/a>\u00a0N<\/a>\u00a0O<\/a>\u00a0P<\/a>\u00a0Q<\/a>\u00a0R<\/a>\u00a0S<\/a>\u00a0T<\/a>\u00a0U<\/a>\u00a0V<\/a>\u00a0W<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb3.0.71″ background_layout=\u00bblight\u00bb text_orientation=\u00bbleft\u00bb border_style=\u00bbsolid\u00bb max_width=\u00bb350px\u00bb custom_padding=\u00bb||15px|\u00bb custom_css_main_element=\u00bbborder-bottom: 2px solid #000;\u00bb]<\/p>\n Ss<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb3.0.71″ background_layout=\u00bblight\u00bb text_orientation=\u00bbleft\u00bb border_style=\u00bbsolid\u00bb module_class=\u00bbss-par\u00bb]<\/p>\n Safelight:<\/strong>\u00a0A safe light that is used when working with photosensitive materials like emulsion or capillary film to prevent exposure to ultraviolet light.\u00a0 Also used in dark rooms that use photographic films.\u00a0 Typically these are two very different types of light with the dark room light for film using exclusively red safe light while a screen room can use amber light or yellow light.<\/p>\n Sawtooth:<\/strong>\u00a0A jagged edge appearing in a stencil image that looks like stairs steps.<\/p>\n Scoop Coater:<\/strong>\u00a0A metal trough used to dispense emulsion to coat a screen.<\/p>\n Screen:<\/strong>\u00a0A wooden or metal frame with screen mesh tightly attached to it.<\/p>\n Screen Abrader:<\/strong>\u00a0A chemical agent used to roughen the surface of screen mesh to aid in the adhesion of capillary film.<\/p>\n Screen Clamps:<\/strong>\u00a0A mechanical device used to hold the screen in place during printing.<\/p>\n Screen Clogging:<\/strong>\u00a0A condition when ink dries in the mesh preventing ink from passing through the stencil.<\/p>\n Screen Mesh:<\/strong>\u00a0Woven material made of polyester, nylon, or stainless steel with uniform openings that will be attached to a screen frame.<\/p>\n Screen Frame:<\/strong>\u00a0The frame in which the screen mesh fabric is attached.<\/p>\n Screen Opener:<\/strong>\u00a0A chemical that is used to remove clogged ink from a stencil. These are hot solvent chemistries that can affect emulsion and make reclaiming difficult.\u00a0 Use sparingly.<\/p>\n Screen Printing:<\/strong>\u00a0Printing method where ink is printed through a stencil with a squeegee.<\/p>\n Screen Stretcher:<\/strong>\u00a0A device used to stretch mesh over a screen frame prior to being glued down to the metal or wooden frame.<\/p>\n Sensitizer:<\/strong>\u00a0A chemical added to liquid emulsion to make it harden when exposed to ultraviolet light.\u00a0 Diazo and SBQ sensitizer are the two main types of emulsion sensitizers.<\/p>\n Serigraphy:<\/strong>\u00a0Technical fine art term for screen printing.<\/p>\n Shelf Life:<\/strong>\u00a0The length of time a product can be safely stored before it loses its ability to work properly.<\/p>\n Shirtboard:<\/strong>\u00a0A flat surface used to hold the substrate during printing. Also known as a platen.<\/p>\n Side Clamps:<\/strong>\u00a0A clamping system on a screen printing press in which the screen is held in place by clamps located on the side of the print head.<\/p>\n Simulated Process:<\/strong>\u00a0A screen printing technique typically used for the reproduction of photographic or full color images involving the use of hand or color separation software using a certain number of opaque inks to render a full tonal image in color.\u00a0 This opaque printing technique can print on all shirt colors and typically uses 8-12 colors.\u00a0 It differs from index printing in the type of dots it uses.\u00a0 Simulated process uses halftones, index printing uses a fixed sized random stochastic dot.<\/p>\n Sizing:<\/strong>\u00a0Chemical agent used to increase the weight, crispness and luster of a garment. When heat from a dryer or flash cure unit heats up a garment, sizing agents begin to burn off creating a characteristic odor and smoke.<\/p>\n Snap-off:<\/strong>\u00a0Snap-off is a condition that describes the lift-off action of the mesh from the ink and substrate during a print stroke.\u00a0 Controlled by screen tension and off contact between the screen mesh and the substrate.<\/p>\n Sodium Metaperiodate:<\/strong>\u00a0The key or main ingredient along with water used in most screen reclaiming solutions.<\/p>\n Soft-hand:<\/strong>\u00a0The feel or texture of a print after it has been cured.<\/p>\n Solvent:<\/strong>\u00a0A petrochemical liquid used to clean inks from screens, or as a thinner for solvent based inks, or as a screen opener.<\/p>\n Solvent Based Inks:<\/strong>\u00a0Non-plastisol inks such as enamels and epoxy inks typically used for the printing of hard goods and other non textile products.<\/p>\n Special-effects Inks:<\/strong>\u00a0Types of special effect inks include metallic, shimmer, glitter, high, density, glow in the dark, puff, reflective, photochromic (color change), suede, gel, black light and others.<\/p>\n Spray Adhesive:<\/strong>\u00a0A type of platen adhesive used to keep the substrate in place during printing.<\/p>\n Spread:<\/strong>\u00a0Adding a slight outline to an image in computer graphics\u00a0for the purpose of compensating for printing press mis-registration.<\/p>\n Spot Color:<\/strong>\u00a0Artwork that utilizes specific shades of ink to create the design.\u00a0 Color is separate and unique and does not combine to form secondary colors.\u00a0 Color stands alone within the design.<\/p>\n Squeegee:<\/strong>\u00a0A tool made out of wooden or metal\u00a0with a rubber blade captured in a clamping mechanism and is used to\u00a0push the ink through a stencil by pulling the squeegee across the open image area of the screen.<\/p>\n Squeegee Angle:<\/strong>\u00a0The angle in which the squeegee is held during the printing process. More angle equals greater ink laydown, less angle aids in details and to shear viscous inks like plastisol.<\/p>\n Stencil:<\/strong>\u00a0On an\u00a0exposed screen the emulsion portion containing the image to be printed.<\/p>\n Stretch Test:<\/strong>\u00a0Stretching the print on a garment to see if it cracks indicating if the print has been fully cured or not.<\/p>\n Strike-off:<\/strong>\u00a0A sample print.<\/p>\n Stroke:<\/strong>\u00a0The pulling of the squeegee across a screen to produce a print or the flood stroke that fills the ink well of the image.<\/p>\n Sublimation:<\/strong>\u00a0The process of heating inks or fabrics causing the dyes to release a gas that can color polyester fabrics or treated cotton where the gases create the color and not the ink.\u00a0 It can also refer to fabrics like red that sublimate the dyes used to color the fabric and migrate into the plastisol print.<\/p>\n Substrate:<\/strong>\u00a0Term used to refer to the item that is being printed.<\/p>\n Square Dots:<\/strong>\u00a0Used to describe the type of dot used for index printing, also called stochastic dots.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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