Nashphil

Hi, I'm trying to screen print an image on t-shirts with a gradient type half tone in it, and we keep getting the crosshatching of the screen itself in that section of the print. (We've tested a print on paper with the same results, so we know it's not the fabric creating the lines.) The problem area represnts a distant light source, which then diffuses into half tones as it spreads out. The distant light source is white, and the background red. We're printing on a white shirt, so we're using red ink for the background, with the white diffused light left blank and the shirt showing through. I'm in a third world country so communication, and technical expertise has not always been easy to come by, which has turned this into a bit of a problem. I don't know much about screen printing, but I'm learning some as I go, and I'm wondering if there is an optimal screen mesh count for this, and whether it would work better if we print the red background solid underneath, and print the dots of the white diffused half tone on top. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks much, Philip

 

Reply With Quote