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Automatic screen printing press from China

An automatic screen printing press for garments is bought by colour count and pallet count, yet the same search returns bottle, cup and tube printers, and the garment presses that remain differ in drive, registration and flash curing in ways a photo will not show.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 1 October 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Garment press or container printer

Searches for oval screen presses return cylindrical printers for bottles, jars and tubes. A garment press has flat pallets that carry shirts past print heads. Check the pallet photos before anything else.

Oval track or round carousel

Round carousels are compact and limit colour count to the stations around the ring. Oval presses stretch the track, so you can add heads and flash units, but they need a long room.

Colours, stations and flash units

A station can hold a print head, a flash cure unit or a cool-down stop. Dark garments need a white base, a flash and a second white. Count stations after flashes, not before.

Drive and registration

Servo-indexed pallets stop in the same place every cycle. Pneumatic or chain drives drift with wear. Ask the registration tolerance stated by the maker, and test it.

Pallet size and screen frame size

Pallet size limits print area; screen frame size must match the frames your screen room makes. A mismatch means new frames, emulsion and exposure setup.

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

Number of colours in your typical design, plus white base and flash stations.
Largest print area you sell, and whether you print sleeves or pockets.
Screen frame size your screen room already uses.
Garments per hour you need, and how long your runs are.
Room length for an oval track, and compressed air capacity.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Print a six-colour design with fine halftones on dark cotton, with white base and flash, for a counted run.	All colours in register on the first and last garment within the tolerance stated in the offer.
Stop the press mid-run for ten minutes and restart.	No ink dried in the screen mesh, and the first garment after restart matches the last before.
Swap one screen and re-register it, timed.	Changeover time matches the offer, recorded on video.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity citing the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC or, from 20 January 2027, Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, with Low Voltage and EMC for the control and flash units.
Risk assessment covering the moving pallets, the print heads and the hot flash units.
Pneumatic and electrical diagrams with a spare parts list for squeegee holders and sensors.

The one people forget. The pneumatic diagram. Air-driven heads are rebuilt locally, and without the diagram a service technician guesses at valves and fittings.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You print short runs of many designs, often in full colour.

A DTG printer or a DTF printer, with no screens to burn or register.

You decorate bottles, jars or cups.

A cylindrical container screen printer, which the same searches will show you.

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

Listings · 55Fifty-five marketplace listings returned for automatic oval screen printing machines, checked October 2026. More than half were bottle, cup, jar or tube printers.
Listings · 8Eight of those listings were clearly for T-shirts or garments. Seven asked US$13,000 to US$70,000 per unit; one at US$2,160 for a ten-colour press is a price to question. Asking prices, not landed cost.
ArithmeticOn a press with 12 stations, a white base, a flash, a second white and a cool-down stop use four, leaving 12 - 4 = 8 for colours.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

DTG printer. Choose a DTG printer when runs are short and designs change every order.
DTF printer. Choose a DTF printer when you print full colour on mixed fabrics with no screen room.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Printing & signage page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

Chinese vs European automatic screen printing press: how do they compare?+

Compare drive type, registration tolerance, flash heater power and the pallet fit with your existing platens, line by line, before comparing prices.

What goes on an inspection checklist?+

Pallet flatness, pallet stop repeatability, print head pressure, flash temperature, emergency stops at every head, and the counted run.

What does EU compliance involve for a screen press?+

Machinery law with a risk assessment for the moving pallets and hot flash units, plus low voltage and EMC for the electrics.

Who is the EU importer?+

The business placing the press on the EU market; when you buy direct from China, that is you.

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