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Good Deal. Looks like you might need a little more pressure or a better flood stroke. You black looks a little thin in some areas. | |  | |  | |
I think I needed a better flood stroke.... still not sure how much, if any, pressure to put on the flood stroke. Is the idea to "float" the ink evenly over the image on the screen or to actually embed the ink lightly and evenly into the screen before the print stroke?
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can you share what you did to resolve this issue?
what kind of ink you used and how you've printed it onto the shirt - what press you used? did you get that on one squeegee pass? how high is your off-contact (if you had any) | | | | | | |
Thanks. Someone had responded that I need to "feel" my way through cleaning out my screen after exposure and so that's what I did. Tried to get a feel for what the emulsion was and was not doing whiling washing it out. Made a big difference. I got both sides of the screen wet and let it sit more or less for about 45 secs or so and then I started attempting to wash out the image but not too aggressively... as soon as the emulsion started to look like it wanted to "fall" out of the image I just diligently helped it along but mindful not to be too forceful and let it do it's thing. Tackling like that worked great for me.
And to try and answer your other questions:
* My off contact was just slightly less than 1/8th inch
* All purpose plastisol from International Coatings
* It was a one stroke pass (I experimented with multiple strokes on another t-shirt but wasn't totally happy with the results)
* I've got a cheapy, yet functional (for me), press from silkscreensupplies.com
Thanks for the ecouragement!!