 Help! Shirts not looking good: screen printing red ink on black shirts
Ok, I am new to the business. I have done 5-6 different shirt designs and 1 4 color shirt with the 4 color screen press kit that I got from silkscreeningsupplies.com. Lots of the shirts have turned out nicely. Here is my problem and here is what I'm doing:
red ink on black shirts. all things are lined up as best as i can tell.. i have good off contact between my shirts and my screen. i'm not curing on the platen.. so its not heating up.. my design is 11" wide and i'm using a 14" squeegee.. so i'm covering the whole design. but the left half of the design aways gets a thicker coat of ink than the right side. the left side looks great after one pass.. but the right is thin.. and you can see the shirt through it. the more passes i do.. the thicker the ink gets on the left side.. and the right side seems unaffected. any ideas? i haven't had this problem with any other designs.. mostly i've been doing lighter colored shirts though.. i don't know if that has anything to do with it. no ink is being left in the screen on the right side... i just dont get it.
any help would be amazingly appreciated.
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