"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
never have done that. Why would you think you should strain it? What ink are you using? 8 discharge jobs done so far today alone, not one booger in the ink, cci D-base, cci D-white, never a problem. "I never add white pigment, it is a waste of time", D-white 5% activator all day long.
that's weird, we never have that issue any more after getting away from Matusi and going CCI white. Maybe, one thing we do, do, is add 2% printgen to all of the mixes. It's a silicone liquid that's supposed to prevent coagulation and drying in the screen and must work because we never have this issue. Unless someone tries to grab some left over mix from the day before, then any of the dried crap on the edges falls in the mix, so I try to make sure it all gets dumped in the crap bucket to avoid re-use like that. I know the Matsui white was awful and used to chunk up on us all the time, but the CCI has been awesome. we also mix highspeed with a drill, not sure if that has anything to do with the success we have with our mixes. Just mixed up a gallon of D-white, and yellow for a run we are about to start and thought about trying to strain it but, I figure I'd just make a mess and haven't seen the need so far. You aren't adding and white pigment to your mixes are you? I just use the D-white for any mix that calls for white. Tossed out any white pigment we had, it was too problematic and a waste of time, never makes the d-white any whiter, just creates a friggen hassle.
Maybe it's Rutland and their super concentrated pigments but even if you wipe every lastdrop up and close the flip cap immediately and have a shaman do a ceremony over the damn thingthe black pigment is going to dry inside the bottle where exposed to air.Cheap insurance here, not unlike degreasing.