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CAROUSEL SCREEN PRINTING
Carousel screen printing is no different to Flat-bed screen printing, except that there are
multiple screen frames on a carousel for multi-colour printing and predominantly used for
printing tee shirts.

CYLINDER or ROTARY SCREEN PRINTING

A development of screen printing with flat screens from 1963 was to wrap the screen
around to form a tube, with the ink supply and squeegee inside the tube. The resulting
roller rotates at the same speed as the web in a roll-to-roll machine. The benefits are high
output rates and long rolls of product. This is the only way to make high-build fully
patterned printing/coating as a continuous process and has been widely used for
manufacturing textured wallpapers.

This is also used in the textile industry. The cylinder screen printing system is use in long
production runs. The ink and the squeegee blade is on the inside of the cylinder. The ink is
forced though the mesh with the squeegee blade onto the textile material that is being
printed. The circumference of the cylinder screens did limit this printing process in the early
days of its development. Now that it is popular, technology has improved the circumference,
quick change overs and they can run more colours on smaller machines.

SILKSCREEN AND SQUEEGEES TRAINING MANUAL 11
Updated - 24 June 2019