Screen printing has a lot of jargon, vocabulary, and terms to learn. Even if you’ve been in the industry for a while, there are still words and ideas that you may not be totally familiar with.
If you’re looking to clear up confusion and understand more about screen printing, we’ve defined dozens of commonly used terms in the screen printing and custom apparel industry.
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“Auto”
“Manual”
Approval Processes
Automatic Press (“Auto”)
Blanks
Bleed through
Burning Screens
Carded cotton
Catching Shirts
Choke
CMYK
Color Separations
Contract printing
Discharge ink
Dot gain
DPI
Durometer
Durometer
Dwell time
Dye migration
Embroidery Heads
Emulsion
Emulsion calculator
Films
Flash stations
Flood
Gas dryers
Halftones
Hand feel
Impressions/Embellishments/Decorations
Ink temperature
LPI
Manual Press (“Manual”)
Mesh
Mesh count
Micro registration
Mixing Ink
Off-contact
Off-contact
One color print
Overexpose
Pallete temperature
Pallete temperature x
Pantone
Plastisol
Platen
Print locations
Process printing
Puff
Purchase Order
Push or Pull
Reclaim
Reclaiming Screens
Registration
Registration marks
Retail printing
Screen tension
Screen tension x
Separations
Simulated process printing
Split fountain
Spot cleaner
Spot cleaner x
Spray tack
Squeegee
Squeegee angle
Squeegee pressure
Station
Stencil thickness
Thixotropy
Transfers
Transfers
Tri-blend
Tri-lock
Underbase
Vector vs. raster
Viscosity
Wash-out
Water based ink
Water-based tack
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