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Originally Posted by Orso |  | | | | | | | | | Should I use a certain screen/mesh for the text to hold up? | |  | |  | |
You want something around a 90T to 120T (230-305).
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Originally Posted by Orso | | | | | | | | | | Should I stay away from heavy textured paper? | | | | | | |
That depends on a few factors, including 1) How textured, 2) How much you want to use it.
For number one: I have printed on various grades of hand-made recycled paper. Some of it is very smooth and prints without a problem, some of it is very textured and often screws up. But if you just want something with
some texture, that should be fine.
As for number two: believe it or not, this (how much you want to use it) is pretty relevant for something like wedding invites. If you were doing a commercial production run, I'd simply advise to stay away from anything heavily textured. But when it's a personal project that you want
just so different rules apply. Simply put: if you print on highly textured paper, you will get useable prints, but they will probably be outnumbered by misprints.
In theory if you can get any good prints, you can figure out how to do it correctly every time. But hey, then there's practical reality
If you are prepared to discard a high percentage of prints, you can print on just about anything on a trial and error basis.
As far as the weight of the paper goes, basically the heavier the better. Lighter paper is more likely to buckle and bleed. I'd choose something fairly heavy, probably with a little bit of texture so it feels nice in the hand.
The easiest way to **** up screenprinting paper is to set the off-contact wrong. Speaking for myself, I can probably attribute more misprints to being too lazy to adjust the off-contact correctly than to any other single thing (including having the off-contact set incorrectly because I didn't know better
).