Screen printing is an age old method for printing on garments and a process that just won’t go away and becomes more technically advanced as each decade passes.

Its simplicity and limited mix of colours, tones and textures allows a business to mass produce designs on bulk company orders for sweatshirts and shirts or one off screen printing t-shirt requests. All with relative ease when you have the right silk screen printing equipment to hand.

Silk Screen Printing Equipment And Supplies

Trade print supplies understands the needs of a silk screen printing business, large or small. You may be a one man band just getting started with an old fashioned wooden frame, silk screen and a wooden squeegee or have invested in a respectable kit to take on a more specific role in supplying businesses with promotional merchandise.

An average business could be looking at a £1000 investment in silk screen printing equipment which would contain a colour station, a stand alone Screen Printing Press with micro registration, a Floor Standing Flash Dryer and an Exposure Unit but this will primarily deal with one job at a time.

A large scale silk screen printing company may be looking to print 1000 products an hour, in which case a Director may be hypnotised by the Sportsman EX automatic textile press which can handle eight to ten colour models with a digital squeegee. The stuff of adult mags for a screen printer.

Screen printing drying racks, inks, plastisol inks, solvent and waterbased inks, additives, wooden and aluminium squeegees, palette knives, tape, adhesives, clothing materials and supplies, aluminium screens and stocks screens are all materials that you will need to invest in to keep your silk screen printing business on the go.

Silk Screen T-Shirt Printing Kits At Home

For the home set up and hobbyist, silk screen printing home kits are available to buy at most DIY and handicrafts shops online and on the high street. The Speedball Screen Printing Tool Kit right up to the more expensive Speedball Fabric Screen-Printing Kit will give any amateur a decent learning curve into the processes.

However for a few hundred pounds more you can have a dryer, printing press and exposure unit with your own silk screen printing business on Ebay selling designs within hours.