"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
slight tug on dried shirt reveals the cotton "channels/grooves"
Yeah it does seam like it should be runnier. Mixed 7 colors with the pigment system this morning and they are much smoother. I'll try making another batch of white with a small % of water. Maybe it's been sitting to long and needs a better stirring too...
We run D-white through 125 and 156 mesh almost every day, you need to print it hard, drive it into the fabric, we always double stroke, break the plastisol mentality. The ink only discharges what it soaks, if doesn't touch the fiber, it can't discharge it. We never have cracking issues when running our discharge inks like this. We stopped using high mesh counts with water based over 6 months ago and have brighter more saturated prints because of it. 230, in my opinion, isn't going to allow you to drive enough discharge ink into the fabric, just my experience. 180 is probably the highest mesh count I'd go, but not with white, and defiantly double stroke to ensure you are driving it in. We don't print for retail stores who take the shirts and we never really see them again, we have a client base for our water based printing that really inspects the crap out of their goods, wear, and have employees wearing, not to mention most of us in here always wear something we print for others every day giving us a good wash and wear test factor. Double stroking that white will also drive more white pigment into the fiber leaving more behind to be cured into the shirt. Give it a try. Another trick, when printing D-White, we us the Xenon double beveled squeegees, hold awesome detail and allow you to put a nice angle to really lay it in there nice. Hope some of this helps.Mike