Screen Printing, Silk Screen Printing, Silkscreen Printing

Screenprinting has its origins in simple stencilling, most notably of the Japanese form (katazome), used on textiles, mostly for clothing. This was taken up in France. The modern screenprinting process originated from patents taken out by Samuel Simon in the early 1900s in England. This idea was then adopted in San Francisco, California, by John Pilsworth in 1914 who used screenprinting to form multicolor prints in much the same manner as screenprinting is done today.
Screenprinting took off during First World War as an industrial process for printing flags and banners. The use of photographic stencils at this time made the process more versatile and encouraged wide-spread use.
Screenprinting was pioneered at the Jepson Art Institute by printmaker Guy McCoy, who was among the first to develop the techniques of silk screen printing as a fine art medium. Herbert Jepson was also the founder of the Western Institute of Serigraphy.
Chinee Printing was created in 1998 after a group of like minded individuals came together to develop a new screen printing entity. Through this merger, talent and experience was obtained that guaranteed a true 'one stop shop' could be offered. By having both a textile and a hard copy operation many clients found that not only were their textile requirements fulfilled on items such as T-shirts, caps and bags but their point of sale and branding issues could be resolved as well.