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Screen printing (also known as silk screening) is a form of printmaking that creates a sharp, crisp image using a screen made of porous mesh. Areas of the screen are blocked off with a non-permeable material to create a stencil of the image to be printed. Paint-like screen printing ink is pulled over the screen with a squeegee, resulting in ink passing through the open areas of the screen onto the paper (or other material) below. Unlike many of the inks used in other printing techniques, screen printing ink tends to "sit" on the surface of paper, resulting in rich, true colors.