printing and transfer printing. Both techniques vary widely, resulting in the choice of printing technique having a major impact on the end result, or your project’s feasibility.
Screen printing is a printing technique used for, for example, textile printing, but can also effectively be used for posters and scratch cards. The image is transferred onto a screen, whereby the area to be printed is left open and the remaining part of the screen is closed. The ink is subsequently pushed through the screen. An image created using this graphic technique is referred to as ‘screen print’ or ‘serigraphy’.
With transfer printing the image is first cut out of the paper. The plot is subsequently peeled out, leaving only the image to be transferred. The item to be printed, together with the transfer, is then placed in a press at a high temperature and pressed together under high pressure, resulting in the transfer adhering to the textile.
