What mesh depend do I need?
Screens include completely different mesh counts for various printing wants. There are lots of choices but for most jobs there are a number of frequent mesh counts everybody makes use of.
To grasp them best and make the fitting choice the first thing we have to know is US or UK mesh depend?
We use the UK mesh rely for all of our screens.
UK T Measurement – This is what number of Threads per centimetre, not the scale of the holes.
US Mesh Measurement – This is finished by how many Threads per inch, not the dimensions of the holes. The numbers are usually larger for these mesh counts. At Hunt the Moon we do not really use them.
See the little conversion chart below, they are not all going to be spot on, but we’ve worked with the screen printing mesh that we stock.
U.S. Mesh
Microns
UK ‘T’ Mesh
177
one hundred ten
149
156
200
74
230
fifty three
325
44
Our Hunt The Moon Screen printing mesh – pastelink.net – is tremendous prime quality, monofilament polyester mesh that is durable and a pleasure to print with.
Here is our information to Which Mesh Count you ought to be using and some substrates is true for.
– 32T (80 US) is what we consider quite a low mesh count. It can lay down heavy deposits of ink on to fabric but would not always give the very best outcomes on fabric. Can also be used for some specialist inks. (like glitter inks).
– 43T (110 US) This is no doubt the most commonly used mesh, it is good for printing text and blockier designs on T Shirts, Hoodys and so on in addition to different textiles. Its remains to be good for paper prints as long as the design is not to detailed.
43T is good for printing underbase layers. It could go away a pleasant deposit of base layer for you to print your colour on the highest. This may leave a pleasant opaque print. Ideal with Waterbased or plastisol inks.
– 55T (140 US) is great for screen printing on T Shirts, Hoodies with a bit of extra detail. A superb alternative to 43T mesh if you use one screen for different prints.
– 77T (196 US) is great for finer detail, lightweight textiles such as wonderful cotton. It is also great for printing on paper, card and different substrates.
– 90T (230 US) Our favorite mesh depend for prime detail fabric and paper printing. Good for thinner inks on delicate fabrics like silk.
90T is the perfect prime layer mesh depend. It leaves a skinny but clean layer of ink in your underbase.
– 120T (305 US) is nice for finer detail and printing on high quality quality paper and card with tremendous detail. It does not let much ink by means of so its not perfect for daring prints on fabric.
120T is what we recommend for high-quality halftones and very small traces and textual content.
Lower mesh counts (and bigger holes in the mesh..) doesn’t all the time mean extra ink and extra opaque prints. Often the next mesh rely will give a better outcome because the ink deposit is extra controlled and element is higher.