Hi Jonathan thanks for your reply. I made a few changes to my setup. I moved the light back as far as I could so now it's about 14 inches away from the screen. I also set up so that I can wash out my screens in my light safe room. My problem now that I moved the exposure light further away from the ...

Is there any chance that my bulb is to close to the screen and the heat from the bulb is causing the emulsion under the image to semi-cure?

Alright so I'm new to screen printing and I have started hitting a couple of difficulties. My first few screens exposed and washed out quite nicely (at least I thought quite nicely for my first attempts). But now I'm stuck on a design and cannot seem to get it right, even after over a dozen attempts...