Editing Screen printing (section)

== Automation ==
To print multiple copies of the screen design on garments in an efficient manner, amateur and professional printers usually use a screen printing press, which is a colloquial term as most screen printing machines are vastly different from offset [[printing press]]es. Many companies offer simple to sophisticated printing presses. These presses come in one of three types, manual (also referred to as handbench), semi-automatic, and fully automatic.  Most printing companies will use one or more semi-automatic or fully automatic machines with manual machines for small runs and sampling.

Whilst manual screen printing can be done with carousels, handbenches (both of which are often referred to colloquially as presses) or even on to tables. Semi- and fully-automatic machines are broken into two main categories; flatbed printers<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US4817523A/en|title = flat bed screen printing press}}</ref> (poster, art printing or other flat substrates) and carousels and oval machines (garments and other apparel, amongst other textiles). Both which are fundamentally similar in terms of automation but differ in areas such as physical footprint and upgrade paths.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.images-magazine.com/the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-the-oval/|title = The rise, fall and rise of the oval|date = 17 February 2016}}</ref>

These machines are much faster and use either pneumatic pressure generated by air compressors or use electric motors to draw the squeegees, rotate and raise or lower pallets removing much of the manual labour from the task and use UV for instant image curing - resulting in significant reductions in operator fatigue as well as more consistent results.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://systauto.com/screen-printing-machines/automatic-screen-printing-machines/ | title=Automatic Screen Printing Machines }}</ref>