What are screen printers and pad printers? Do I need them?

Screen Printers

By using stencil (which is made by photosensitive tec. ) to block the extra ink, we can screen print to the product you need. Through this technique, the printing will show with a mount of thickness on the samples which is commonly used on clothes, tiles, glasses, acrylics, lead frames or others you need to mark with. Please browse our website to see those samples we have made under the cooperation with various companies. If you have some sample that close to what you wish for, please feel free to contact us as well.


Pad Printers

By using laser or chemical compound to carve on the steel plate which allow us to have the patterns. After we put ink on the plate and scrape out the extra ink, the rest of the ink will stay in the dent of the steel plate. Then the silicon pad will attach to those ink and transfer it to the sample surface. It can be vary delicate even the sample has slightly rough surface. Please browse our website for more pad printed samples which are printed by various models. Look at your cellphone, eye-glasses and watches, you might just found out the printing is our work.


How do I know if the equipment is needed for me?

For those costumers who are dealing with great amount of printers orders such as manufactures or printing factories:

If you wish your products to be remained confidential or having your own printing process then you definitely need our products. With our expertises and experiences which keep us survive over 30 years that we definitely are capable of fulfilling various needs from our every costumers and we definitely can help to increase the profits of your products.


For those research unit which need to change their parameters frequently :

We have worked with many research unit so far. With our simple and great adjustability design, our printers can basically deal with every situation which can cover the needs of rapid changes of parameters.


For those who have a sample to print but lacking of solutions for dealing with the printing issues: The industries of modern society become complex and diverse. It is hard to believe that the rulers for measuring, the colors on the panel of the cell phones, the tiny words on the computer chips or even the black positioning dot on the LED are all printed. So if there’s anything you need or want to add on your products, please feel free to contact us.


I have something that wish for be printed, what should I provide for further details?

You can reach us through our website and fill those quires in the contents. Once we have received the messages, we will contact you as soon as possible. The flowing questions are what we will need to know in the first place which will speed up the whole process:


1. What is your sample like? What is the size?
2. What is the material of your sample?
3. What is the pattern that you wish to print on your sample?
4. How many colors you wish to use on the patterns? Is there any further requirements?
5. How much quantities of samples you wish to print on ?


You can both answer these questions by words or taking pictures. If you already have the sample, it is best that you send it to us for further sampling of ours. We will run the adhesion tests and oversee the location of the patterns which allow us to assess the feasibility and the cost for designing the jigs, screen, steel plate…etc. We will also charge for the fees of sampling for getting the best sampling results. You can also dial to us via phone and reach us directly so we can confirm if our helps fits your needs or not.



The Simple Way to Screen Print

You might be unfamiliar with screen printers. But the matter of facts, you might have already used this kind of printers for printing cute patterns or graphics on fabrics or clothes during your school times. We will take a good look to this “easy to learn but hard to master” techniques of printing.

When you wish to have something printed on some random product: After you have some rough ideas for the patterns you can simply ask the artist to design for you then send this graphic to Houn Jien Co. . We will start to make the screen for this graphic.


The screen is composed by many tiny holes and we have thousands of way to build up the screen for certain techniques to fulfill your needs. So in this stage, a screen is what you will get.


For making sure that the graphic will stay the same place on each sample, we will make a jig which will fix the sample in the right place every time while printing. When we make the jigs, there are various thing we need to think about, such as : easy to fix the sample or remove, how to positioning in a right way…etc.


In the process of installing the screen and the jig, we will adjust the printers in the right setting through our flexible tuning system which is the best in our industries. Either scrapping manually or automatically, the stencil will block the extra ink for making sure the ink will go through on the right places for having the right graphic. You can see the result after removing the stencil. Most of the time, the result will be satisfied. However because of the various factors and various techniques, it might show in a different way. That is reason it is a printing techniques which is “easy to learn but hard to master” .


When the positioning is done, it’s time for us to add ink on the screen. The characteristics between inks and the substrate will influence the result greatly and because of that we will run the previous test for getting the best results.


Either scrapping manually or automatically, the stencil will block the extra ink for making sure the ink will go through on the right places for having the right graphic.


You can see the result after removing the stencil. Most of the time, the result will be satisfied. However because of the various factors and various techniques, it might show in a different way.


That is reason it is a printing techniques which is “easy to learn but hard to master” .


That is for now, thank you guys.


How do I know to choose screen printers or pad printers?

How do I know to choose screen printers or pad printers?

While we choosing to print on a screen printer or a screen printer, the first thing we need to look at is what the substrate surface looks like? Is it flat or is it curve? It the surface of the sample is flat without bumps then we will suggest that using the screen printers over pad printers. However, if the surface is curve or rounded, then the pad printers will definitely to chose for avoiding unnecessary troubles.

In various situation, the guide lines might not suitable for your products. In that case, we still strong recommend that you contact us with your samples for us to give the best and correct advices. We are welcoming all kinds of questions. The result will present in various way in various textures. We are always happy to help our costumers to have their product in a best shape! So please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any any queries. Have a nice day!

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