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| sk8markmartin |
 Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:58 pm |
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| I was wondering if someone could tell me what plastisol inks, emolsion, and screen mesh count are best. Im going to be doing basic 1 or 2 color graphics on cotton. |
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| DunnDiego |
| Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:04 pm |
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Location: San Diego
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I hope 200 mesh count is good because I just bought a bunch of it....
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| PASS |
| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:11 am |
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Location: Oregon
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200 will do... I generally use 110-156 for multi-color designs... unless i have fine detail... that's where I bump it up some..even up to 300...
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| citizenchim |
| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 8:26 am |
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| i use union inks plastisol, they have a great maxopaque series that works well, with a nice range of colours. also, the emulsion really depends on your exposure light source but 2 general purpose ones would be ulano 569 fast or ulano DLX. (i think those are the names). as for the mesh counts, it really depends on the art work. anything with fine detail such as half tones or dithering i would use a 195-300 mesh screen. medium detail such as text or vector graphics 155-195 and for coarser art work like colour fills, mask prints etc 110-155. and for inks that have a fat metalic flake in them 40-60. the lower the mesh count, the thicker a layer of ink will be laid down. a good all around utility mesh count would be somewhere between 155-195. |
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| Stranglehold77 |
| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 6:13 pm |
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| I like Wilflex inks. Smooth baby! Ulano makes a standard emulsion that will do the trick. I find 155 mesh to be a great "all-around" screen. Not too tight to push ink through and still tight enough for fine detail and some halftones. |
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| DunnDiego |
| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:10 pm |
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| My screen supplier told me that with the higher mesh-count you need to use plastisol, and for water-based you can use 110. |
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| Stranglehold77 |
| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:12 pm |
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| You can use water based inks in higher mesh screens, but you have to be very wary of it drying in the mesh. |
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