Yeah, I just got started and I was having a bunch of problems making screens. I had really high humidity in my house. Like 50-55%. I bought a $50 dehumidifier of the internet, but it was total garbage and didn't do ****.
I now have purchased a $150 dehumidifier now and a digital humidifier gauge.
I've also been having problems making good prints. I've been practicing for a week now. But I think a big part of my problem is that my screens don't have any ink well. They all feel totally flat. When I made a screen in this two day class I took from Lawson, they told us to run our hand across the print side of the screen and feel the ink well. I could definately feel a substantial raised edge along the stencil.
I've been using the same emulsion and technique in my house, but I took maybe since the humidity was so high, the emulsion wasn't going on as thick. (I'll probably start using a second coat of emulsion if I'm going to use white ink from now on also).
Basically I did get a screen ready to reclaim just now. I didn't have any haze remover to use, but I just used lots of Lawson Soy Based Ink Degradent and lots and lots of scrubbing.
I still have a few pieces of underexposed emulsion on the screen, but they are out of the area where the image will be. I got all the left over (ghost image) lines of emulsion out of the print area.
My understanding is the Haze is the nasty stuff that eats your skin. Do I have to go that far, or can I use some of the more mild spray stuff?
This can be caused by underexposure. When it comes time to reclaim, the stuff wants to stain in the screen. Haze paste should do it, I don't know what else works.