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I have been having a very hard time getting my first coat of ink to go down good. I'm always left with lots of ink in the screen. If I do a print on a piece of paper or a pellon all the ink clears the mesh and the print comes out perfect. But when I do a print on a t-shirt it's a different story.
I have been doing one coat of emulsion on each side. I finally made a screen with two coats of emulsion for a white print and it is much easier to get the ink to go through the screen on the first print.
I finally got my white to look great. Now I'm working on black. I've tried 110 mesh and 156 mesh. With both I get ink that won't go through the screen on the first pass, but what does go through the screen is two thick. So I get this shiny plasticy effect because it's so thick, but then you can see holes in the image where there is very little ink.
Even doing clean up strokes (doing extra print strokes without re-flooding) doesn't do that much good in getting the rest of the ink out of the mesh.
I have two more screens on the way (might come today) a 196 and a 230 to try with black.
I'm going to try putting two sets of coats on the frames for black ink and the next screen I burn for white, I'm going to do 2 sets of coats followed by a third coat just on the print side.
I realize every emulsion is different and what not. I'm using Lawson SBQ-500. I just wondered how many coats others are using for white and black plastisols.
A lot of the printed materials I have read says to use only one coat.
I have been doing one coat of emulsion on each side. I finally made a screen with two coats of emulsion for a white print and it is much easier to get the ink to go through the screen on the first print.
I finally got my white to look great. Now I'm working on black. I've tried 110 mesh and 156 mesh. With both I get ink that won't go through the screen on the first pass, but what does go through the screen is two thick. So I get this shiny plasticy effect because it's so thick, but then you can see holes in the image where there is very little ink.
Even doing clean up strokes (doing extra print strokes without re-flooding) doesn't do that much good in getting the rest of the ink out of the mesh.
I have two more screens on the way (might come today) a 196 and a 230 to try with black.
I'm going to try putting two sets of coats on the frames for black ink and the next screen I burn for white, I'm going to do 2 sets of coats followed by a third coat just on the print side.
I realize every emulsion is different and what not. I'm using Lawson SBQ-500. I just wondered how many coats others are using for white and black plastisols.
A lot of the printed materials I have read says to use only one coat.