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screen-print

American  
[skreen-print] / ˈskrinˌprɪnt /
Or screenprint

noun

  1. a print made by the silkscreen process.


verb (used with object)

  1. to print by silkscreen.

Etymology

Origin of screen-print

First recorded in 1925–30; (silk)screen ( def. ) + print ( def. )

Example Sentences

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But Soto was able to achieve that effect with screen print.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2022

They became close friends, and in 2017, Gilliam created the tennis racket screen print, a year before Ritzenberg died at age 100.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

“We’re a fairly low-funded, community-based nonprofit that needs quite a bit of space because we have a music venue and a screen print shop and a recording studio,” explained Vera’s executive director Ricky Graboski.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2022

Visitors can learn about the medium’s history, appreciate some of its masterworks and, this year, compare a black-and-white lithograph of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” with Andy Warhol’s colorful screen print of it.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2018

The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by Rene Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then beneath it wrote in cursive Ceci n’est pas une pipe.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

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