Doing a roller screen before printing has helped us a ton. We've been getting fleece jobs in the 60 - 120 piece range, which isn't enough for me to justify using web spray and needing to replace the pallet tape, especially not every week or multiple times a week. We have been getting awesome results using the waterbased textac glue, combined with the roller, and scrubbing the pallets every 2 or 3 rotations. Would much rather spend the time scrubbing than replacing pallet tape. Trying to limit hoodie jobs to one flash total, because we run into way more issues trying to flash the ink twice. Haven't experimented much with the flash - roll - underbase, but will try this next, as I could see it really helping to pre-shrink the hoodies with poly cotton prior to printing.
Also off contact is generally raised 1mm from your standard t-shirt off contact.