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Can I print a color image in a screen print? The answer is yes – you can print a color print in a screen print, but you need to divide between two types of color print:The first type is the printing of several colors in the same graphic. The meaning is that each color is uniform and without color transfer or shading and in fact this print consists of several uniform colors. There are silk screen printing machines capable of printing up to 12 different colors on each shirt, but this is done in very large quantities of prints or involves high costs.The second type of color printing is process printing. In this type of printing four or five colors are used (CMYK and white color if the shirt itself is dark), and actually by combining the colors you can also print real pictures. This printing method is even more complicated and expensive because it is necessary to separate the image into the four primary colors and also to create many more holes in the screen in order to create a mixing of the colors (this process is called halftones). In addition to this, there are two other parameters that are necessary for this type of printing: a high-density mesh (which has many more holes than a normal mesh) and ink designed for this type of printing, which usually has a higher transparency than normal ink.