Seeing Applications Through

An additional trend fueling the industry's allegiance to 7- and 10- micron deposit level screens is that the lion's share of screen printers are laying down screen for overprinting with process. According to Trexler, this usage pattern marks a resurgence of screen against UV flexo, particularly for laying down opaque white backgrounds. "Everybody was going to double-bump UV flexo and eliminate screen," he says, "but now printers are realizing that approach may not be as economical—mainly because it can tie up two print heads."