Rotary Screen Engraver - A thing of the past?
Today saw published an article in House and Garden magazine about digitally printed wallpaper / products. It went over the point that design and colour is now being produced with out the need for engraving. Typically a rotary screen engraver would have engraved the screens for patterns in the magazine and then then they could be coloured. Not the ones in today’s magazine. They had never seen the inside shop of a ROTARY SCREEEN ENGRAVER ’s facility, only the sophisticated structure of the modern studio’s popping up all over the UK.
In these studio’s digital technology is moving at a rapid pace. Using extreme RIPS for printing wallpaper and fabrics and computing technology only once dreamed of, the digital face of home furnishings is most definitely changing.
Concept Coverings was featured in this special version of the magazine and we will bring you a clip soon.
Is this the end of the rotary screen engraver? I think not.
Whilst digital printing is cost effective on small runs, it is very expensive on larger print runs. It is more cost effective to have a rotary screen engraver engrave the screens and print via the conventional method.
For a really professional rotary screen engraver visit www.meshtex.co.uk