[jeron]

Ok guys here is how i understand it...

Flood stroke is simply pull ink up lightly to cover the entire image area but don't really push it through the mesh. You will have ink covering the image area and you can't see the image area.

Fill stroke is similar but you hold the screen above the shirt and press harder. basically pulling ink across the image, filling the image and pushing ink through the mesh but scraping the ink side of the screen clean. You will be able to see the image area and the image area will be filled with ink but there will be relatively no ink outside the image area. (if that makes sense.)

Considering i'm correct about the two different types of flooding, when and where would you use one or the other. Or is one completely wrong. i have been using a fill stroke and it seems to work fine. If i don't fill it the first time though and i try to fill it again i will usually get too much ink on the substrate side and it causes a smudging issue.

I mostly see videos where people use a flood stroke.

I am a push printer and use a manual press if that makes a difference

Thanks
Jeron.

 

[Celtic]

A fill stroke would be good to use if you have a thick stencil, say for a high density ink and you want it to lay down a lot of ink for that thicker print. To give you a better idea, check out graphic elephants on youtube. They have some special effects printing videos and you will see what they do.
hope this helps you.