Patent ID: 11912050
Assignee: PGPRINTS B.V.
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method of screen printing an image on a substrate comprising the steps of:
providing a printing screen having a printing side and a squeegee side opposite the printing side, and having a pattern of screen openings delimited by bridges and crossing points;
providing an imaged lacquer layer having open areas defining the image to be printed on the printing side of the printing screen; and
forcing ink paste through the printing screen and the imaged lacquer layer from the squeegee side of the printing screen to the printing side thereof onto the substrate,
wherein:
the image to be printed comprises pixel based design elements;
the printing screen has a pattern of screen openings that are oriented in a parallelogram raster; and
the open areas of the imaged lacquer layer representing the pixel based design elements are arranged in an orthogonal raster.