I use yellow mesh exclusively, but notice you can get mesh dyed orange and maroon also. Are these used for some specialty printing? Are the exposure times significantly higher? Anyone using these for garment printing?
haven't seen other colors. Have been using yellow for high mesh and white for our lower mesh with great success. Do you have roller frames? If so you might try getting a sample of the mesh and testing.
Yeah, I use rollers. The reason I'm interested is I found some discounted, long remnants of good mesh that I'd buy, but I don't want to end up with longer exposure times than I already have, or have a bunch of mesh laying around that I can't use.
I use yellow mesh exclusively, but notice you can get mesh dyed orange and maroon also.
When exposure light hits white mesh, it scatters and can change the shape of halftone dots. Dyed mesh absorbs the light scatter, but that filtering increases exposure time. There is very little difference between yellow or orange mesh. I haven't seen red mesh in 20 years. When I tried it I had to triple exposure time. No thanks.
It's a waste of time to use dyed mesh on mesh counts below 200 or if you are not printing halftones.
If the deal you can get on dyed mesh is on counts under 200, turn it down. Since you are using yellow mesh exclusively, you can reduce your exposure time when you buy white mesh.
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Last edited by RichardGreaves; July 31st, 2007 at 10:03 PM.
Screen Mesh Color? 
