For items that are flat like these macaron boxes i use a speedball screen printing frame.
Screen printing on plastic box.
Screen printing on plastic.
This machine suitable for printing some flat items which size is within 500 700mm such as paper pvc sheet plastic film textile keyboard circuit board cd.
Contrary to the flexography where you can print many bags at the same time screen printing lets you print only one bag at a time.
Ink will be pressed through the image burned into a silkscreen board to get your required image.
That brings us to our main topic screen printing on plastic bags.
An introduction to screen printing on plastic substrates getting started screen printing on plastic can open up a whole world of opportunities for your business.
Plastisol inks are made to sit on top of the substrate so you would end up with a thick chunky layer on your box.
Screen printing on plastic is a wet process of decoration on flat plastic sheets or cylindrical plastic products.
Printing on plastic products includes gravure printing flexographic printing screen printing anti counterfeiting printing and jet printing transfer printing etc special printing methods.
Nowadays it has been able to print on plastic products with different surface textures different hardnesses and different shapes and is widely used for decoration of plastic packaging films and plastic containers.
If you need multicolor images it s fine to operate one pass for each color.
The screen printing process is the same whether you are printing on t shirts or clear boxes.
Printing onto plastics enables us to create signs folders ring binders luggage tags and millions of other useful items that need to be lightweight strong durable flexible or weather proof.
Pvc screen printing machine application.
Also the method is manual.
Pull a design you want to show the world together then you re ready to print some of your very own custom boxes.
Screen printing can also be used to decorate many plastic substrates like signs containers and point of purchase pop displays.
How to screen print on clear plastic boxes.
Why consider screen printing on plastic.
In case you don t have a large order to work on screen printing is the most efficient method.
With several different plastic printing methods out there it can be difficult to know which process is best suited to a particular application.
You ll need your water based ink 200 or 230 mesh screens and your press set to about a 1 8th inch off contact.