What is type of squeegee for screen printing?

Screen printing ink scraper also known as scraping (ink) board or scraper, plays an important role in the transfer of ink through the mesh to the substrate. Scratch in the screen printing ink transfer, both manual printing or mechanical printing are extremely important tool.

What is type of scraper for screen printing?

In screen printing, scraping knife scraping ink, ink return two, collectively scraper. In most cases not specified, the scraping board referred to as scraper, commonly known as scraper.

The squeegee is used to squeeze out the ink on the screen, making it a leak-proof printing on a tool. In accordance with the different uses, screen printing ink scraper can be pided into hand scraping board and machine scraper two. Scratch board by the rubber strip and fixture (handle) composed of two parts.

The ink return plate, also known as the reticle, evenly covers a certain thickness of ink on the screen plate, that is, supplies the screen with the ink required for printing. Back to the board for the most aluminum products or other metal products.

In the manual screen printing, the printing and ink return stroke are completed by a squeegee. In machine printing, printing and ink return are done with two ink plates. Which back to a thick sheet of about 2mm thick metal plate, the Ministry of the knife is a low viscosity ink, printing less demanding print scraping; large round head scraping board for large areas of textile printing.

Select the shape of the edge of the squeegee, from the ink viscosity, printing, scraper material, substrate shape, substrate material, printing precision requirements and other aspects of comprehensive consideration.

screen printing squeegee type of squeegee for screen printing type of scraper

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