With the increasing awareness of environmental protection in China, environmentally friendly printing inks are increasingly favored by printing houses. Many printing companies have begun to require printing ink manufacturers to provide MSDS data, heavy metal content data and whether they meet the requirements of environmentally friendly printing ink standards. This has also promoted the rapid development of printing inks in China towards environmentally friendly inks. The concept of “low-carbon economy” is like a gust of wind blowing through the Chinese screen printing industry and the ink industry. It is reported that many domestic companies and manufacturers have begun or are ready to use environmentally-friendly soybean ink for screen printing to help achieve low-carbon printing. It can be seen that in the development of low-carbon economy and the promotion of green printing, the production and use of green printing inks is increasingly becoming the consensus of the ink industry and screen printing industry. It is understood that the industry generally believes that if China is a printing country and can implement more stringent laws, the printing industry as a whole is moving towards environmentally friendly products. With the establishment of environmental regulations, the market demand for environmentally friendly and sustainable inks will increase. With innovative products with environmental and economic benefits, the market for solvent-based and petroleum-based inks is gradually being replaced by environmentally-friendly products developed at the forefront. All in all, environmentally friendly inks must be the development direction of screen printing inks. China's ink industry will continue to pay attention to the technical trends of global environmental printing inks, and continue to introduce more environmentally friendly products for the screen printing industry.