Abstract: A description is given of a screen product which in particular is suitable for use in flat screen or rotary screen printing. This screen product comprises an electroformed, essentially nickel-containing metal body which determines two essentially parallel faces, and which is provided with a large number of openings, each opening extending from one of the two faces to the other, and each opening having a side wall in common with the metal. In order to prevent light scattering by the screen product, at least a part of at least one of the two faces of the screen product or the side walls of the openings is made radiation-absorbing. A method for increasing the radiation-absorbing capacity of a screen product is also described.

Abstract: Described is a method for forming a sieve material in which a sieve skeleton is thickened in an electrolysis bath with metal; in the bath as used at least one chemical compound is present having properties of both a first and second class brightener in such concentration and added with such a rate in view of the Ah (ampere hour) load that the internal stress in the finished sieve material is reduced in comparison to a sieve material produced in a bath comprising a conventional compound under conventional conditions. The invention also relates to a sieve material formed with the method described.