Why won't my ink clear the screen on ringspun cotton?

[andyandtobie]

Thanks, Alex!  When we ran Comet the first time, I was spraying it with a couple mists once in a while as you suggested.  We'd flood, mist it a little on top of the flood, then let the squeegee mix the water in. Our problem was that the individual droplets from the mister would create tiny pinholes all over the print.  Took us forever to figure out where the pinholes were coming from.  We went to spraying in the bucket and stirring, and no more pinholes.  Maybe that's just something that's been an issue for us?

[TCT]

I'm taking a fine mist, no drops or, well you found out

[Admiral]

Yep...fine mist will work fine, have done that on the auto when it's flooded quite a bit.  We get a couple water based jobs of over 1k shirts a year and need to do it during those runs.

As for your printing problem, lower the mesh count or get thin thread mesh.  Keep moving quickly while printing, take a break with clearing out the whole image with wet rags at some point then continue later. 

I'm a fan of 150S mesh for water based ink though, 225S for detail I suppose. 

If you use 135S the ink drips through if left flooded for more than 15 seconds, we made that job work and it was easy but you had to keep moving fast otherwise the edges would be smeared from ink dropping through the screen lol.