From the future to back

[bobnick2]

Hi my name is Rob,
My story is that I came from the future back to now, I started screenprinting in "93 in flatwork. By '94 we were into uv printing, texiles was the smallest part of our business. Do to changes in life I went into texiles and my life became a living hell, for whatever reasons they had they could not understand me with 19yrs behind me in printing knew more than they did but I could not do cloth printing ( not very good). I have been watching most of the videos on Youtube and picking up some things but my mind still nags me that I was printing with 390"s and 420"s mesh screens. Ok so much about that, now I want to be the 2nd best texile printer that I can be.

[Catspit Productions]

Welcome to the future Rob,

It’s pretty much the same as the past but we’re all older. It’s true printing textiles is a whole other animal and very different from graphic or industrial screen printing.

The inks are much different hence the mesh counts. Plastisol textile inks tend to be like creamy toothpaste. We tend to use 110 to 160 mesh for most spot colors. Halftones use 230 and higher mesh counts. Water based inks are much thinner going on various mesh including 195, 230, and higher mesh counts.

Anyway welcome aboard and we’re happy to help out. Thanks for signing up.