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What mesh count?
Gilligan:
Just trying to get all my ducks in a row... this will be the first time printing. I don't even really know what "clearing the screen" is. :)
Frog:
andy..you do like a variety of whites..
Actually, I keep getting new ones with a little left over in each previous bucket.
My go to whites are(were) the IC 774 and Wilflex artist.
The Xenon is interesting, but I don't like paying shipping from the other side of the continent, and it really climbs the squeegee. Covers nicely though.
Just put in an order for a few things with Nazdar Source One, rather than Midwest, and it turns out that they don't carry the Artist. Then, they don't even stock Sprint, Wilflex's suggestion as a similar substitute. Another place disappoints by not being my one stop shop.
Now, my IC 774 is discontinued so I am going to try their substitute and a cotton ink from them as well. Gonna get some samples.
So, bottom line, come next week I may have another couple of new whites here, and I bet that they all print through a 160, which is the subject of the thread, eh? ;D
Frog:
--- Quote from: Gilligan on August 12, 2011, 05:18:20 PM ---Just trying to get all my ducks in a row... this will be the first time printing. I don't even really know what "clearing the screen" is. :)
--- End quote ---
Almost self explanatory. Not so much with today's inks with a 160. but if after a flood (or fill) and a print stroke, if the open areas of the screen aren't open or clear, it may have been due to the ink just being too thick for that mesh. Union, in a tech sheet addressed the issue of the loss of some opacity by adding reducer by pointing out that if a little reducer allowed more ink to actually get deposited on the shirt, that would outweigh any loss in opacity from the additives.
Gilligan:
It's all so "clear" now. ;)
Gilligan:
Ok, let's add to this conversation. Now the wife wants to get fancy with the text.
How thin of a line could I get away with on a 155 mesh?
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