Reclaim or single use: you choose

摘要

Cleaning and reclamation processes are often seen as the bad boys of screen printing. In this article, Pete Kiddell advocates single use stencils for some applications and safe, environmentally friendly processes for others Of all the processes used in screen printing the most problematic has to be screen cleaning and reclamation. It could be argued that it should be avoided by making no attempt to reclaim the mesh and disposing of the used stencil, keeping just the frame. This is certainly the case in some industrial applications where stencil performance must not be compromised by contaminated stencils or a slight drop-off in performance.