Just had to pick between mesh count and it cost me a whole batch

Last weekend I was printing a 4-color design on light cotton tees and had to choose between a 110 mesh and a 156 mesh for the base layer. I went with the 110 thinking it would lay down thicker ink faster, but the detail in the text got all muddy and bled out after 3 washes. Now I've got 12 shirts with ruined fronts and $60 in materials down the drain. Anyone else ever regret a mesh count choice this bad?

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felixw682mo ago

Tried a 110 on a small text job once. Big mistake. The ink just flooded the stencil and turned letters into blobs. Switched to a 156 for that kind of work and never looked back. Better detail, less bleeding, and you can still get a good solid layer if you do a couple passes. Sucks about those shirts though.

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sarah_hart2mo ago

Same thing happened to me on a run of those thin script fonts. Switched to a 156 and it cleaned up the edges way better, no more ink pooling in the tight spots. Running two quick passes did the trick for opacity without wrecking the detail.

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