DOnt thin kthe ink back. Your loosing opacity. Stirr real well before loading in the screen to help losen it up some.
Make sure you have good off contact and print flash print. Use a 110-156 mesh frame.
Its possible youll need a white underbase as Dave mentioned yet you should be able to get it with a hit flash it. (we can with Wilflex Athletic gold ink)
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Some of the shirts appear to have the ink absorbing into the shirt after drying and are not showing up as bright as they are when printed. | |  | |  | |
Your hitting/priting way too hard. Sounds like your mashing the ink into the shirt rather than laying it on the shirt. 2 issues can happen
#1 Dye Migration (sublimation) where the dye of the sdhirt is changing to a gas, migrating into the ink and then returning to a liquid(solid) when dry causing your ink to take on a hue of the shirt color. usually seen in poly blends or poly shirts yet some 100% have issues.
#2 Fibrelation - the fibers of the shirt are showing through the ink. Lighten your print a tad or print/flash/print/flash/print.
You can print a clear underbase which will stop the dye migration and fibrelation (for the most part) or print a white underbase.
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Also the ones that are not being absorbed into the shirts are drying with a glossy finish. | | | | | | |
This has to do with the amount of time it is exposed to heat. I honestly cannot remember but its either this or the opposite
longer exposure to heat will cause glossy
less heat exposure causes matt look.