"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
cool story bro.. take a tension reading now, and one again after 10k impressions and a few dozen reclaim cycles, then get back to me.
So I picked up a couple 150/48 S-Mesh statics to give em a try. Coated 1 on the print side and 2 on the squeegee side with SP-1400. Put on the press and adjusted the choppers until it just cleared the ink which to my surprise was a whole lot less pressure than with my regular statics. Did not see any platen deflection or anything and I was able to speed the squeegee up as fast as it would go which could not happen with my regular statics. Also it cleared the ink with one stroke which I could barely get to happen with regular statics and that would take a whole bunch of pressure and a slow squeegee speed. So here are the results. Printed with SF White. I have a sample of Wilflex Quick coming to try out as I am not 100% satisfied with the SF and the matte down properties as you can see in the pics.
I've got to play spoiler here, (I've got to get some s mesh to play with then I'll know) but I've had very nice print on new screens as well without it being s mesh, but wait until you get a few reclaims and see if it still works that good. I know some of my old screens are hard to print with without a ton of squeegee pressure is because of my poor reclaiming skills and not takin my time.darryl