yeah right onto the platten and no its not bleeding through shirts...i didn't know if I was doing something wrong or had to do something to it or what.
I have found that when you squeegee on test squares, you cant squeegee as many passes as you would on a shirt. Depending where you buy your test squares, some are thicker than others. One company sells rolls of t shirt type material that you can cut off what you need and use that as test squares. I have used clearance material from walmart in white before as test squares when i needed some in a hurry and was out. I have also used white butcher paper and it worked fine. you can even flash that and it will not burn the paper.