What's your go to mesh?

[XG Print]

What is your go to mesh on standard spot jobs.  For this thread lets say we are running 500 pcs. with a 3 color front on black ts.  Ink colors: white, red, gold.  We would run 135S for the white and under base and probably 200 for the red and 155 for the gold.  Just trying to get a feel for what mesh others are using.  We basically have 110's, 135S, 155, 150S, 200, 230, and a set of 305 for the rare process job.  Just wondering how often people are using the 230 plus mesh counts.  For us it is rare but we are also manual printers.  Stopping the ramble now....I think the heat from the shop this morning is messing with me 

[mk162]

Here it is:

180s Base(possibly a 225s, but probably not with the gold highlight)
230 colors, maybe a 225s for the gold if it wasn't very opaque.
155 highlight(only because we have a ton of these around

[Stinkhorn Press]

base 135S
tops  200S

and that's pretty much 90% of our screens/use. (substitute 150S and 225S as needed, but almost interchangable with 135S and 200S)

we don't even have a mesh higher than 225S and it hasn't yet been an issue (not saying some prints might have looked better with a higher mesh, but good enough for the girls we date anyway)

[Prince Art]

We're in the process of moving from manual to auto, so what follows is what we were using on manual, and may change now. Also, I bought a bunch of new screens just before joining TSB & subsequently learning about S-mesh. So, I have yet to add S-mesh, but plan to at some point.

bases: 110, 155
top colors: 155, 180, 200, 230
colors, straight to shirt: 110 & up, depending on ink used & coverage needed
process & other halftones: 230

My goal is always to use the highest mesh that will provide sufficient coverage. (I'd like to think most have that goal, but I've see shirts that prove otherwise!)

We also coat our screens pretty thin - something that may change after all I've read here about EOM.

[Homer]

base - 150/180
top colors - 225/305


All S mesh, only 4 mesh counts we carry...this may change with a sim process / process job of course but for the basics, this works well for us...

can't beat the S mesh statics from Spot Color, man them babies are tight....

[Atownsend]

base = 135/55 or 150/48
top colors = 230/40 or 280/35

Switched to Dynamesh / NBC from Murikami about 6 mos ago. Great pricing, customer service and their mesh is outstanding. Very stable after the first retensioning.

[mimosatexas]

135S or 180S for bases usually. 135S for spot jobs on fuzzier shirts, 180S for halftones or shirts that generally print nicely. Use an 83/71 mesh for some one hit whites and super fuzzy crap shirts. Top colors are almost always on 180S or 225S, and honestly they print pretty similarly, to the point where I could probably drop out the 180S completely except for halftone white bases. I also use the occasional 280T for halftone top colors that print nicely, like black.

[Sbrem]

we've had so many, but I'd say 81s, 110s, 140, 150s, 180, 200, 230, 280, 305, 355... I'm working on (too slowly) on conversion to all "s" meshes.... I just had a customer come in that we've been working on some samples for; his favorite result is white vinyl on Next Level 3600 black, soft and super white. That of course, will not work for bulk printing...

Steve