Abstract: A screen printing stencil is prepared by coating one side of a light transmissive film with a radiation curable material. Then, either the radiation curable material or the opposite side of the film is coated with a print ink receptive surface for receiving and adhering ink from a conventional ink jet printer. The ink receptive surface and the radiation curable material may be one and the same. An ultraviolet block image is printed on the ink receptive surface with a conventional ink jet printer in safe light conditions and the printed side is then exposed to curable radiation for curing areas of the radiation curable material not blocked by the print for providing ink impermeable areas. The noncured areas are washed out with an appropriate solvent and the cured areas are applied to a printing screen mesh, and after drying the cured areas, the film is removed.