Patent ID: 6092464
Filing Date: 2000-07-25
Classification: B41M,G09B

Abstract:
In an automatically indexing screen printing machine having a plurality of print processing stations and a plurality of movable palettes on which a printable textile substrate is placed, a method of printing a raised image on the textile substrate comprising the steps of:a) providing a print screen at a first print processing station;b) attaching a stencil to a print side of the print screen wherein the stencil is a pre-fabricated thick film having a precision controlled thickness;c) coating the print screen with an emulsion that is hardened except in one or more image areas, wherein the stencil has one or more image openings therethrough having a shape corresponding to the one or more image areas through the hardened emulsion coating on the print screen and the one or more image openings through the stencil define one or more three-dimensional image volumes;d) placing a textile substrate on a palette;e) positioning the palette with the textile substrate placed thereon at the print processing station identified in step a); andf) screen printing a pigmented paste onto the textile substrate through the one or more image areas of the print screen and the one or more image volumes of the stencil to form at least part of the raised image on the textile substrate, the thickness of the raised image being at least 300 microns.