"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
I just re-read that article, which is awesome btw, and was wondering if anyone else using S-mesh has had the same experience as me: 1/1 "round" (I use the monster max and it is kind of a middle ground between the standard sharp and round on other coaters) is all you need. Now, I don't have a thickness gauge, so all I can do is test and look at things through a loupe, but I have started using 1/1 coats for everything but my 280T mesh which needs a 2/1 coat and the glisten happens on the first pass without fail every time with S-mesh (I use 135S, 150S, 180S, and 225S).
Coating tip: If you're not able to get a glisten on S thread mesh counts under 225 with one stroke, then try coating slower. Depending on your emulsion you should be able to reach "glisten" with one stroke. Next time you coat, try going to the extreme on coating speed, where it takes 10-12 seconds to coat a 23x31 then take note of how those screens look compared to your normal coating methods. When I coat, my speed is about 2-3"/sec and there is a noticeable difference between the screen I coat and my screen guy in terms of pinholes and other imperfections. But that's not saying much since the last time I observed him coating he was doing one coat on the shirt side then two coats on the squeegee side when most of our screens can be done with a 1/1.
I agree with Alan. Everyone that coats here is instructed to do a "10 Mississippi" count on each pass. Nice and slow lets you fill in the mesh openings. We do still get pinners sometimes but its from contamination, not lack of bridging.