Thickness Gauge???

[alan802]

Alan, you are making some huge stencils. I can't imagine making them that thick.

Ok I measured a few screens. I am getting between 6 and 9 percent EOM. I can't imagine having a 20% EOM for spot color jobs. I guess now that I can measure them I need to try a thicker one and see what it does.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by your results.  I don't know if you ever have to double stroke anything, but we don't like to do that and a big reason we don't have to is stencil thickness.  There are 2 things we try and avoid like the plaque around here, double stroking and pfp'ing underbases.  Anything I can do to not have to do those things is what we do.  It's another reason why we are still using a good number of lower mesh counts, where the recent trend is 80's, 110's and 137's are almost non-existent in many shops, I'll use the hell out of them.  And the more I use the Murakami S thread, the more I love it.  I can see our shop using only the newman roller mesh and murakami S threads.

[Screened Gear]

This is all really good info. I will be trying this out next week or later this week.

[blue moon]

Where are you guys getting the 55/90/55 squeegees at?

Fimor rep, Brigitte posted here contact info a while back. You can email here and get one to try them out. Not sure what kind of a deal do they offer, but it could be it was shipping only. Just do a search for 55/90/55 and make sure you mention the TSB when you email her.

pierre

p.s. here's the thread:
http://www.theshirtboard.com/index.php?topic=28.msg1561#msg1561