I've heard that i need screens stretched at different angles. Is this true?

No, a 50 mesh count is probably too low for what you are doing. 50 would be used for screening glitter.

For textile application you will be somewhere in the range from 110-305.

Never heard of screens being stretched at different angles. As far as I know they are all the same.

Locklear said:

No, a 50 mesh count is probably too low for what you are doing. 50 would be used for screening glitter.

For textile application you will be somewhere in the range from 110-305.

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Not in London, which uses the metric system. 50T would be about 125 or so in US units. So 110-305 would be 43T to 120T.

Locklear said:

Never heard of screens being stretched at different angles. As far as I know they are all the same.

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Ditto. Could be a conflation with screen angles used in four colour process?

Well in that case it sounds like you should be fine.

I think you're right...there must be some confusion there concerning halftone angles for multicolor printing.

Locklear said:

Never heard of screens being stretched at different angles. As far as I know they are all the same.

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Could be in reference to the X and Y axis. Not stretching mesh at different angles on the frame, but stretching the mesh in two directions...

I agree. I think the angles you're hearing about are concerning virtual angles if you're doing halftones and those are done through a computer program (a rip program).

Have fun!

Actually it can make sense to angle the mesh for printing on t-shirts.
It makes only sense if you print halftones.
Angleing the mesh is not done by stretching the mesh in different directions but by turning the frame by x degrees.

Angled rasterdots printed through an angled screenmesh can prevent the so called object moiree which sometimes comes due to the fabric structure.

you may be referring to making your screens: you have to stretch first the mesh before you fasten it onto the frame? is that the one you are referring to?

What I meant is explained here:
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