What is silkscreen printing?
Silkscreen printing uses a mesh screen that replicates your artwork, in which ink is forced through a screen to the surface of the disc. Used for both Pantone and CMYK processes, Silk-screening is recommended for graphics such as logos and texts. Silk-screening provides full color saturation, but does not have the crisp sharpness or detailed resolution of offset or digital printing.
Print making is one of the oldest forms of image duplication. The woodcut is one of the first forms while silkscreen printing evolved a little later in Europe. Scholars believed that the silkscreen originated in China in 960-1279 BC, with the Song Dynasty. It later made its way to Japan where it was the second most popular form of printmaking. Silkscreen, often confused with screen printing, is a primary form of printmaking which usually involves the hand of an artist unlike screen printing which is carried out by machines. A limited amount of prints be pulled out from a silkscreen and hence it is seen as a more exclusive art form which may explain the astronomical prices that prints made by S H Raza and Jogen Choudhury command. In England, silkscreen was popularised by Samuel Simon who first used it for making expensive wallpaper. Later however, it was Andy Warhols iconic Marilyn Monroe silkscreen print that created history and challenged established art forms like the original oil pa
‘Silkscreen printing’ is the industry standard for labeling of CD-Audio products. The silkscreen printing process applies a series of inks directly onto the face of the CD resulting in a CD label that balances the best durability and image resolution possible. CD label silkscreen printing requires the use of ‘film separations’ in the screen preparation to print each layer of color. These colors can be individual Pantone or PMS colors or duotone and multi-tone color processes such as CMYK which combines four primary colors to create a full color image. what are ‘pantone’ colors? ‘Pantone colors’ refer to a color matching system adopted as the standard in the print industry. Every individual shade of color is identified by a number and can be referenced to in a ‘pantone color book’ or ‘pantone color chart’. Pantone colors are also referred to as ‘PMS colors’ which is an acronym for ‘Pantone Matching System’. When choosing Pantone Colors for your CD label it is best to use the Pantone Sol
