Thanks for all the encouragement and tips.
When I exposed the frame, i kind of treated it as a dark room project, I did the exposure in a dark closet and taped the door all the way around to prevent any light leaks that might distort or haze up the print, probably no different than what most beginners do i'm sure... chalk it up for beginners' luck i guess hehe
I am going to try it again tonight with thinner off-contact / no off-contact (is that even done?
) and see how it looks, as I will be eliminating another factor that might contribute to the issue before I get another frame of a different mesh count...
For the t-shirt, I did 2 pulls: flood, pull/print one direction, tilt screen, flood, pull/print the other direction. Did a shirt with just a single pull, the ink was def. a little thin in general and the plug detail was completely missing. When I redid the shirt with 2 pulls, it helped alittle bit, but as you can see from the pictures,some details were still missing.
For the paper, I just did a flood, pull/print.
I'll post my results for lower off-contact / no off-contact tonight.
Thanks all for the help!