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screen printing => Waterbase and Discharge => Topic started by: dirkdiggler on November 13, 2012, 07:19:18 PM

Title: How do you stroke it?
Post by: dirkdiggler on November 13, 2012, 07:19:18 PM

Can anyone get vibrant discharge colors with 1 stroke on the auto?  If you can, what mesh and durometer gets you those results?  And how do you flood it, hard or soft?

Title: Re: How do you stroke it?
Post by: ebscreen on November 13, 2012, 07:25:45 PM

Yep, we can get over-saturation on even 280 mesh with one stroke.

Light flood, heavy stroke.


Drop a drop of water on a piece of fabric.

Use a piece of cardboard to imitate your squeegee.

At plastisol specs, (upright and light pressure, medium speed) you'll merely scrape the water across
the fabric.

Now angle that "squeegee" down, add some pressure, and try again.

Saturation is the goal.

Title: Re: How do you stroke it?
Post by: screenprintguy on November 13, 2012, 07:30:10 PM

150-160 mesh- I coat 2 over 1 with my emulsion, 60 duro squeegee, lots of angle, almost zero off contact on my Diamond back auto, slow stroke. White or any other discharge color, if not a halftone, for me, this really gets the ink deep in the shirt for a nice discharge through and through. Oh about 25-30 pounds of pressure on the squeegee, just enough to start seeing the squeegee rubber bowing but not hydro plaining across the mesh, I'm sure every press is going to differ, but for us, this is around where we are playing. Also using CCI discharge inks

Title: Re: How do you stroke it?
Post by: tonypep on November 14, 2012, 06:20:43 AM

Action makes a dual blade squeegee for this. Best for halftones and higher mesh. Not always needed but it helps in a pinch. For our resort line which is all vector art 140 mesh 70 duro single stroke