Custom Flag By Way Of Screen Printing.
When custom flags are printed there are a few common techniques in the printing process they are screen printing by machine or hand or by digital imaging printing. Custom flags are most commonly printed using the screen printing technique whereby a typical flag material such as woven polyester, knitted polyester or nylon us used. First the artwork is created on a computer for the filming machine, so for example if the flag has 2 colors then there will be 2 films made from the filming machine 1 film for each color. The film is then treated by light to make the printing plate, again if there were 2 colors in the custom flag design there would be 2 plates made, this technique is much the same as the old way to produce photographs using the negatives from a camera in a dark room. The printing plate is also known as a halftone. For the colors CMYK powder is used to make the PMS colors or CMYK colors they are mixed together by a machine such...