Patent ID: 6990900

Claim:
A method for stretching and mounting a screen printing screen, comprising: providing an outer frame with two ends generally perpendicular to a print direction; providing an inner frame with two print direction sides generally parallel to the print direction; providing a screen/mesh with two print direction sides and two ends, the print direction sides being generally parallel to the print direction and the ends being generally perpendicular to the print direction; clamping an end of the screen/mesh; applying significant tension forces to the screen/mesh in the print direction to produce a stretched screen/mesh; moving the ends of the outer frame to contact the stretched screen/mesh; attaching the stretched screen/mesh to the ends of the outer frame; trimming excess screen/mesh along the print direction; moving the inner frame to contact the screen/mesh; attaching the screen/mesh to the print direction sides of the inner frame; and providing imaging/printing on the screen/mesh.