Camera-Ready Art
Camera-Ready Art: Production ready art. Artwork that requires no alterations or modifications and is ready for output onto film or vellum.
Camera-Ready Art: Production ready art. Artwork that requires no alterations or modifications and is ready for output onto film or vellum.
Ultraviolet Light: Light with a wave length shorter than that of visible light. It is so named because the spectrum consists of electromagnetic waves with frequencies higher than those that humans identify as the color violet. Ultraviolet light is commonly called black light. UV light is the ideal type of light for exposing screen and curing certain types of ink.
Flood Stroke: A heavily angled squeegee stroke used to fill the screen with ink. A squeegee angle of 60 degrees is typical.
Chiller Plate: A metal plate that is applied to a flashed print to absorb the heat from a print.
Scoop coater: A metal tough used to dispense emulsion for the purpose of coating screens.
Carousel: A screen printing press consisting of several print heads and/or platens that can be moved in a rotary fashion for multicolor printing.
Blockout: An emulsion like chemical that is used to cover pin holes and to block out any area of the screen that you do not want ink to pass through.