CONTENTS Editor’s comment
MANAGING EDITOR Jon Barrett
jbarrett@datateam.co.uk Tel: 01622 850044 Fax: 01622 851378
SALES MANAGER Richard Smith
rsmith@datateam.co.uk Tel: 01622 699170 Fax: 01622 757646
DIGITAL FEATURES EDITOR Tracey Rushton-Thorpe
trushtonthorpe@datateam.co.uk Tel: 01733 266990 Fax: 01733 266990
SCREEN FEATURES EDITOR Peter Kiddell
peter.kiddell@
pdsconsulting.co.uk Tel: 01226 249590 Fax: 01226 294797
Screen, the hidden workhorse
Every month, the team here are SPDIdebates the future of the screen printing process. To the casual observer, screen would seem to have fallen off the map. Yet, under the surface, screen is soldiering on as one of industry’s most reliable workhorses. Take the electronics industry as an example. Pick up any electronic product and inside you will
find a printed circuit assembly. If it includes surface mount devices, which it is likely to, the solder will have undoubtedly been screen printed prior to reflow. The reasons screen printing is used to print solder are simple. The process is: accurate,
repeatable, reliable, fast and capable of handling the abrasive and chemically active nature of solder paste. What is most interesting is that the screen printing process can offer theses valuable
attributes to any printing application when asked to. In this issue we see how screen printing is still being used at Royal Crown Derby for its waterslide transfer decoration. Their screen printing facility maintains the skills evolved over many years to produce transfers used on their fine bone china products. Thousands of different designs using inorganic pigments and precious metals can be stored
and recalled from a massive database for the screen printing department to meet the exacting quality of collectors around the world. The best way to describe screen process is ‘shy’. It hides itself away in windowless factories
yet, day-after-day relentlessly adds value to the UK economy which is more than can be said for some facets of society. Long live screen.
Jon Barrett, Editor
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