utero

I think I've mastered the colours onto light tees when screen printing but when it comes to black it's another matter.

Just how can you get a good solid white print on a dark tee. I've been doing a flood first before printing and this has helped. But I keep finding myself doing several passes to get anything decent and even then it's still not great, with some of the black t-shirt still comeing through the print.

Any tips, I'm also using a heat gun to flash dry between each pass

 

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tpitman

Maybe the heat gun isn't doing the job. I've started using Union's Bright Cotton White, and you can get a good white print on a black shirt through a 156 mesh with print/flash/print. Flood/print, then dry stroke the first print to clear the screen and flatten the fibers, then flash and print the second time with just enough pressure to lay the ink on top of the first print. If you press just hard enough so you can just start to feel the squeegie dragging a little as it passes over the open areas of the stencil, that is just enough pressure on that second pass. Using the 156 mesh, you don't have too heavy a hand in the feel of the print when you're finished.

 

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Fluid

use a lower mesh frame and get a flash cure unit rather than a heat gun. You cannot guarantee a true even flash over the entire print using a heat gun.

Print flash Print with a flood before both prints. make sure your off contact is good and do not smash the ink into the shirt. Lay the ink on the shirt

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utero

cheers guys, will give it a go

 

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