Serigraphy (Silk Screening)

A printing process that incorporates a squeegee to force ink through a fine mesh, or silk stencil onto canvas, paper and a variety of materials. Using photo emulsion, often color separations are created on screens by exposing separations to the emulsion and thus creating a screen for each of the four primary printing colors. Then each of the four colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, black, or CMYK)is "pulled" though the screen individually. Serigraphy differs in that its colored areas are paint films, rather than printing ink, or "stains."