Screen printer Creafor

More than 30 years of screen printing experience.

State-of-the-art screen printing presses, unique in the Benelux.

Creafor prints on almost everything...

What is screen printing?

Screen printing (or serigraphy) is a transfer printing technique in which we press ink through the ink-permeable parts of the screen with a printing squeegee. The screens come in various mesh types, allowing us to determine the thickness of the ink layer. There are very coarse screens that allow a lot of ink through, and very fine screens. In screen printing, we print colour by colour, so we have a separate screen for each colour. The clean screen frame is first coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, which we first let dry. Once the screen is dry, we can expose it with a film provided with the print image (positive and readable). The black parts of the film thus stop the exposure, these parts are not exposed and hardened. This makes these parts ink-permeable. After exposure, we spray the uncured emulsion from the screen with water, now we can start screen printing. We mount the screen in perfect position (register) on the screen printing press. The ink is spread across the screen by a back-pressure squeegee. The pressure squeegee presses the ink through the open or ink-permeable parts of the screen onto the carrier. After this, the printed material passes through a drying tunnel. This used to be done manually, but today there are high-tech, fully automatic screen printing machines. Would you like to know more about screen printing technology? Then be sure to take here a look.

Why use screen printing?

• screen printing has larger ink layer thickness compared to other printing techniques
• with screen printing we can print on almost all materials, questions are free
• screen printing has the greatest colour strength and longevity, ideal for outdoors.
• In screen printing we print with all types of "inks", conductive ink, chocolate, glue, phosphor...
• for art reproductions or art prints, screen printing is the technique of choice.
• screen printing can be done from small (manual) to very large print runs (fully automatic)
• Or just because you're a fan of screen printing...

Why screen printing at Creafor in Lokeren?

• more than 30 years of screen printing experience
• 4 state-of-the-art screen printing lines, unique in the Benelux countries
• the very finest screen printing quality in the market thanks to years of R&D
• an in-house solution for all formats and volumes
• also works for other screen printers (good deals make good friends)
• a young and dynamic team with one common passion: screen printing
• Anything for a satisfied customer at any cost.
• Or just because you're a fan of Creafor