We fabricated screen‐printed Ag‐(Bi,Pb)2Sr2Ca2Cu3Oxmonofilament and multifilament tapes with filament number 1≤N≤5. AsNincreases, the critical currentIcincreases monotonically until it reaches 54 A (77 K, 0 T) forN=5, while the critical current densityJcis around 1.6×104A/cm2(77 K, 0 T) nearly independent ofN. The bend strain tolerance is found to decrease with increasingN. For monofilament tapes the strain tolerance is 2%–3% strain while for multifilament tapes it decreases to ∼1% atN=3 and ∼0.4% atN=5. ©1995 American Institute of Physics.