INFLUENCE OF THE SCREEN RULING AND THE PRINTING SUBSTRATE CHARACTERISTICS ON THE QUALITY OF SCREEN PRINTS

The requirement relating to high quality reproduction of graphic products visual data represents one of the most important evaluation criteria of the entire graphic product. The reproduction quality of screen prints demonstrates certain deviations which, inter alia, depend on the printing substrate and the screen ruling. The paper presents results achieved in the investigation of influence of the screen ruling and the printing substrate characteristics on the quality of reproduction done using the screen printing technologies. Three types of printing substrates were used in this work and three different AM screen rulings were printed on them. The achieved results of instrumental measuring and visual evaluation of the prints show high level of dependence between the quality of the screen prints and the screen ruling or the printing substrate.