With the development of the industrial era, the printing industry has also derivatives such as Offset, Pierced India, screen printing, pictorial, inkjet, such as ink-jet printing. And the screen printing is an ancient and the new printing indemnity. If its origins can be traced back to the Qin and Han periods. By the Tang dynasty, the court, wearing the greetings have been printed by the printing of fine detail of the Fengtie logo. Song dynasty, screen printing has once again leap and quickly spread to the Middle East and Europe.
 
And the rapid development of real silk screen is the 19th century the United States. 1915, the first screen printing photographic version of the birth in the United States, which made screen printing technology and a big step forward. Serigraphs in the application of commercial advertising, printing technology and its advantages have been fully demonstrated, in the First World War was particularly notable for its see. At that time, Western countries coincides with the commercial chain network, it is envisaged that if there are 50 commercial chain outlets, need the same specifications window decorated with colorful flags or posters, using the traditional manual drawing, it is difficult to meet their demand, the use of other printing solutions, and the number of is trivial. This time, screen printing to its unique way, naturally recognized and adopted by businesses.
 
1940, the United States set up the National Association of Serigraphs, with the characteristics of the times Serigraph, it is so formal toward society and establish its aesthetic value and artistic status. 1960s to the 20th century American artists Andy Warhol • Personal Serigraphs successful works in the exhibition, Serigraphs creation was to a new stage. Since then, the golden season of Serigraphs started coming artists from all over the world have adopted screen printing works, into the emerging concept of visual art works began to emerge, has opened up the art of painting is a landscape.
 
To a modern, it appears that inkjet, or pictorial methods such as silk screen can be replaced, but on the contrary, the status and role of silk screen but in the fast food today has become increasingly clear and unique. Silk screen printing pages are very delicate delicate images have texture, can be maintained colourful, durable solid coloring, can be used in almost all aspects of the material obvious character. In the production circumstances, silk screen there are also tremendous cost advantages. Particularly difficult for some in the printing, such as the reproduction of the original painting, multi-color printing, the strong sense of three-dimensional printing, the printing materials, such as irregular, silk screening and more beyond their irreplaceable status. The National Palace Museum in Beijing North Korea generations of the famous rang out through the silk screen in the way that copies retained, in a few genuine, and left for future generations stunning good works.

It began as an industrial technology, and was adopted by American graphic artists in the early 1900s. It is currently popular both in fine arts and in commercial printing, where it is commonly used to print images on T-shirts, hats, CDs, DVDs, ceramics, glass, polyethylene, polypropylene, paper, metals, and wood. The Printer's National Environmental Assistance Center says "Screen printing is arguably the most versatile of all printing processes."[1] Since rudimentary screen-printing materials are so affordable and readily available, it has been used frequently in underground settings and subcultures, and the non-professional look of such DIY culture screen prints has become a significant cultural aesthetic seen on movie posters, record album covers, flyers, shirts, commercial fonts in advertising, and elsewhere.

Graphic screenprinting is widely used today to create many mass or large batch produced graphics, such as posters or display stands. Full color prints can be created by printing in CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black). Screenprinting is often preferred over other processes such as dye sublimation or inkjet printing because of its low cost and ability to print on many types of media.