The Workshop on Advance Screen Printing Process on Graphics, UV Print Finishing, UV Special Effects & Packaging will take place on the 27th -28th -29th of Oct 2015.
In the Workshop on graphics, commercial and value addition on packaging, Bhargav Mistry of Grafica Flextronica focuses on two aspect of screen printing. On graphics side he demonstrates how to print moiré free, digital like quality graphics using traditional screen printing process with various UV special effects inks and varnishes.
And on packaging side he demonstrates some innovative ideas to add value into packaging products through screen printing process.
The workshop highlights serigraphy (art screen printing) which is now gaining popularity in India. “Since we have just started working on this new technique in DMI hence it will take few months to master on this subject and bring it into my workshops as a regular subject on this topic,” says Bhargav.
“After a long break we shall once again demonstrate how you can earn through serigraphy screen printing using various UV special effects screen printing to add value in your arts and graphics,” he says and adds, “I have observed than in India there are few serigraphy screen printers and most of them print cut colours (solid flat colours) without halftones so most of their arts do not have gradation and halftones and that’s the reason they end up printing 12-14-16 or sometimes even more colours but they can nev
er achieve gradations in their prints and arts are all made of brush strokes and strokes are mainly never flat tints unless painted specifically with flat colours. So without gradations and vignettes one cannot product exact reproduction of the original art no matter how many colour are printed. Even the separation will take hours to divide image into special colours. As matter of fact, some American screen printers made and often still make serigraphy with 50 printed colours and sometimes more. In the past, Michel Caza printed one time in the seventies 100 colours just as a “challenge”! But to avoid this, he invented in the sixties the “halftones without dots” that allows to print full colour jobs with between 9 and 14 colours. Then, and still now, he put this technique to 7 printed colours.”
To print special effects one has to anyway depend on screen printing. No other technology can match it here.
In December 2006, DMI was inaugurated by Bhargav’s guru Michel Caza and he conducted two workshops one after another and his second workshop was on serigraphy screen printing. Michel Caza is one of the finest serigraphy screen printers and in his company “Graficaza” he had one division mainly focused and specialised on serigraphy (art screen printing). “So with all his blessings and knowledge today after 9 years I am proud to announce regular workshop on arts and serigraphy screen printing soon at DMI,” states Bhargav.
After Michel Caza conducted his first serigraphy workshop in DMI, they continued to demonstrate serigraphy screen printing. Very few screen printers showed serious interest on this process because they had to invest on machine and good screen making system which was expensive those days.
“But today I don’t see that as an issue because Grafica now has more than thousand’s of screen printers using our Nano range of products. Out of those, many have invested in NPL which includes UV curing machine and 5-in-1 screen making system. Those printers who have screen printing machine, proper screen making system and UV curing machine can very well print high quality serigraphy,” declares Bhargav.
So if you have already automated your shop floor and are seeking for some diversification in business or want to learn something new than this is the right time to invest your time and energy to learn serigraphy at DMI and learn how to reproduce arts and paintings using traditional screen printing process.
