SCREEN PRINTING

Screen printing is what we specialize in here at Fresh Air. We have nine automatic presses capable of printing 40,000 garments per day and up to 16 colours per design.

Screen printing is a printing technique whereby a mesh is used to transfer ink onto material or a made up garment, except in areas made resistant to the ink by a blocking stencil. A squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh holes with ink, and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the material/garment momentarily, this causes the ink to wet the garment/ material and be pulled out of the mesh holes as the screen springs back after the squeegee has passed.