Combination Rotary Screen Printing

To create an imaged screen printing cylinder, end rings are glued in to the mesh. The newly formed cylinder is coated with a liquid, water-based photosensitive emulsion to block off all the holes in the mesh, then dried in a dryer. An undistorted film positive of the print image is wrapped around the coated cylinder and the emulsion is exposed in the round with a UV light source. The unexposed emulsion is then washed out in an automatic developing machine, leaving a stencil for the ink.