Screen printing, in particular rotary screen printing of textile materials

A method of screen printing an image on a substrate comprising the steps of:

• providing a printing screen having a printing side and a squeegee side opposite the printing side, and having a pattern of screen openings delimited by bridges and crossing points;
• providing an imaged lacquer layer having open areas defining the image to be printed on the printing side of the printing screen;
• and
• forcing ink paste through the printing screen and the imaged lacquer layer from the squeegee side of the printing screen to the printing side thereof onto the substrate,
• wherein:
• the image to be printed comprises pixel based design elements;
• the printing screen has a pattern of screen openings that are oriented in a parallelogram raster;
• and
• the open areas of the imaged lacquer layer representing the pixel based design elements are arranged in an orthogonal raster.