絲網印刷機屬于孔版印刷機中較有代表性的印刷設備，它的印版是一張由真絲等材料編織而成的縱橫交錯、經緯分明的絲網。已經生產的有平面、曲面、成形、印染、印刷電路和新型輪轉等多種絲網印刷機。其中，新型輪轉絲網印刷機的速度和生產率比較高它的特點是將絲網安裝在滾筒上，油墨澆在滾筒內。機器工作時滾筒旋轉，橡皮刮墨刀把圖案快速印到印刷物上。


制作絲網的材料除真絲外，還可用尼龍絲、銅絲、鋼絲或不銹鋼絲等。絲網印刷機應用的孔版印刷原理起源于古代的模版印刷。孔版印刷有謄寫版、鏤空版噴花和絲網印刷等多種形式。


絲網印刷**初采用手工操作，當時只有一個版架、一塊絲網版和一塊模版。到50年代絲網印刷才實現機械化、自動化。滾筒式絲網印刷機印刷時著墨量多，適于印刷墨層厚實的印刷品，可以在各種紙張、玻璃、木板、金屬、陶瓷、塑料或布匹上印刷，可用多種油墨，包括可以導電的金屬性油墨。

Silk screen printing machine belongs to the hole more representative printing equipment in the printing, the plate is a woven of silk and other material freely crisscross, the count of clear screen. Has produced a plane, surface, forming, printing, dyeing, printing circuit and new type of rotary screen printing machine. Among them, the new type of rotary screen printing machine speed and the characteristics of the productivity is high it is the screen installed in the roller, ink pouring in the drum. Machine work roller rotation and rubber scraping knife design fast printing on print.


Can also be made of silk screen materials besides silk, nylon, copper wire, steel wire or stainless steel wire, etc. Silk screen printing machine application of hole printing principle originated in ancient stencil printing. Hole printing has hectograph, hollow out version of the spray and silk screen printing, and other forms.


Screen printing first USES the manual operation, only a version of the frame, a piece of silk screen version and a template. In the 50 s screen printing to realize mechanization and automation. Rotary screen printing machine printing inking amount more, suitable for printing ink layer thick print, can be in all kinds of paper, glass, wood, metal, ceramic, plastic or cloth printing, available to a variety of printing ink, including gold properties of the conductive ink.