Ink well liner for a silkscreen frame

Abstract

A liner is inserted into the well of a silkscreen printing frame, enabling the printing process to be carried out considerably faster and more efficiently. The liner bridges the interface between the interior periphery of the frame and a screen stencil stretched across the bottom of the frame. The liner includes generally vertical sidewalls disposed adjacent the inner periphery of the frame and an integral inwardly depending base that overlaps the margins of the screen stencil. An adhesive coating on the bottom surface of the liner base securely adheres the liner base to an emulsion layer covering the margins of the screen stencil. The base of the liner is otherwise open so that ink deposited in the well contacts the non-marginal region of the screen stencil, while the liner isolates the ink from the interface between the screen stencil and the inner periphery of the frame.

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