Essential ScreenMate® Color Separation Film Output | Cut Sheets
The Essential ScreenMate® Color Separation Film line opens up new opportunities and lowers costs for screen printers unimagined a few years ago. By using a high performance inkjet screen print printer, CADLink FilmMaker and Essential's ScreenMate® color separation ink, a screen printer virtually has a replacement for a high priced imagesetter.
Developed to provide UV characteristics typically associated with traditional analog film, inkjet users now have the capability to use their inkjet as a marking engine for many of the applications for which imagesetters have traditionally been utilized. It has never been easier to produce quality film positives from an inkjet printer. Best of all, there is no need for a darkroom, processor or chemicals to process the film.
Essential’s new ScreenMate® film is comprised of a five-level coating process, starting with a 5 mil polyester base to make up the five layer process. Four additional steps on the recipient side (density primer, absorption layer for dot control, waterproof layer and microporous coating) along with an antistatic coating on the reverse side of the film, make up the remainder.
Our ScreenMate® film is a direct positive waterproof film with quick drying capability. With a thickness of 5 mils and a technology that controls dot gain, UV characteristics, and drying, Essential ScreenMate® Film offers a Visual dMax of 5.0, a UV dMax of 3.7 and a dMin of .07.
Designed to provide optimum results with piezo or thermal inkjets using Essential's ScreenMate® color separation inks, Essential ScreenMate® film combined with CADLink's FilmMaker and a piezo inkjet printer, provides an inexpensive way for screen printers to migrate to imaging digital color separations.
Ideal Applications
Essential ScreenMate® Film can be used with silk-screen process printing, to produce a great variety of surface applications such as plastics, wood, metal, glass, textiles, paper and board can be used and printed in one pass, if necessary. The most common applications for commercial screen printing are posters, stickers, signs, banners, t-shirts, ring binders, mousepads, promotional items and exhibition displays.
