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who invented screen printing
« on: July 06, 2013, 11:56:12 PM »
I was wondering today who really invented screen printing
correct me if I am wrong,
Andy Warhol? 
where in the country was the first screen printing shop?



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Re: who invented screen printing
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2013, 12:10:39 AM »
I understand that the first sort of silk screen printing (stencils on silk) was done in China more than a thousand years ago, but the Japanese are the ones who started getting a little tension on the silk, and are credited with starting the process more like it is done today.

It is credited as the world's oldest printing method.
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Re: who invented screen printing
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2013, 07:55:56 AM »
Al Gore?
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Re: who invented screen printing
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2013, 08:23:37 AM »
Probably some guy who sold silk and wood.
Needed a bigger market.

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Re: who invented screen printing
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2013, 11:59:30 AM »
I understand that the first sort of silk screen printing (stencils on silk) was done in China more than a thousand years ago, but the Japanese are the ones who started getting a little tension on the silk, and are credited with starting the process more like it is done today.

It is credited as the world's oldest printing method.
Wow I did not know it was that ancient frog
at one time, I thought the author of encyclopedia of garment printing usspi was the G-daddy
of this industry,

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Re: who invented screen printing
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2013, 01:06:32 PM »

at one time, I thought the author of encyclopedia of garment printing usspi was the G-daddy
of this industry,

At one time, you would have been correct, at least for our segment of the industry.

Of course, at that time, shirts were a relatively small subset of the (then named) Screen Process printing industry, but credit the Freseners with an excellent reference guide.
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Re: who invented screen printing
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2013, 02:38:41 PM »
call me old fashion, but I still take a look at the encyclopedia every once in awhile
for clues, well written down to earth reading

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Re: who invented screen printing
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2013, 03:19:22 PM »
for what it is worth, a pretty good synopsis

http://www.fwdscreenprinting.com/about/history/
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Re: who invented screen printing
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2013, 08:08:36 PM »
screen printing is the oldest form of replication other than copying text by hand...it's old.

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Re: who invented screen printing
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2013, 10:25:58 AM »
I was wondering today who really invented screen printing
correct me if I am wrong,
Andy Warhol? 
where in the country was the first screen printing shop?

No, and he didn't invent Campbell's soup or Marilyn Monroe either ;D. In art terms, it's called serigraphy, and there are amazing prints out there... Not to mention counter cards, gas station signs, signage of all sorts really, and industrial uses that you wouldn't see, like laying down adhesive before pieces are assembled. Check it out, it's pretty cool.

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Re: who invented screen printing
« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2013, 11:21:22 AM »
You wanna see the craziest stuff as far as tolerance goes, look into the electronics industry.

The Wiki page is pretty good, although they neglect to mention how stencils were first made before silk was used--identical rice paper stencils were glued around human hairs stretched across a frame.

I would have thought they'd talk about the stencils popular in the middle ages as well... just because they couldn't suspend a center doesn't mean they were totally irrelevant.   ;D

Seems like it could be a pretty tough call whether or not stencil printing or relief printing came first...  I'd vote relief, but only because of the hand prints in caves.   ;)

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Re: who invented screen printing
« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2013, 11:26:48 AM »
They even screen print gaskets. Steel mesh super thick cap film.
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Re: who invented screen printing
« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2013, 01:55:28 PM »
John Pilsworth in SF is credited with commercializing the process.

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Re: who invented screen printing
« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2013, 02:34:34 PM »
I was there in Japan.. reincarnated as me.. we used to call it printing  on underwear.
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