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3Deep:
I don't know which is worse customers asking for these thin shirts with a very bright print and no hand or the companies that keep making these almost impossible shirts to print with jumping through hoops.  So how do you all tackle printing thin material with a very bright white or any colour with a very softhand, discharge sounds like a winner but not all shirts discharge very good, water base inks maybe? but we are not really setup for long waterbase print runs if that is the answer.  So far I've been going up in mesh count and trying my best to lay down very thin ink deposits and printing the brightest colour inks I can find.

rusty:
It's counterproductive but I go high mesh count and send it around a few times (working with a diamondback) I wish I had more flashes but if its 72 shirts its not bad. We are a small shop though

whitewater:
I just communicate what we can do to the customer. If it's a large print with large ink deposits then I tell them if they want it bright, then they will feel it when wearing it. If they want dont want to really feel it then I just say ill use a higher mesh screen but it won't be as bright, and if they dont want to feel it, its just one layer of ink.

Its just what it is.

tonypep:
Of course garments permitting (ie educate customers that are willing to be educated) discharge UB is how I go higher mesh plastisol top colors. Of course there is no perfect, plug in, go to solution. Back when fine gauge pima cotton was the newest hottest thing and I had a library of 100 DC colors in stock (unactivated of course) we went that way which opened A LOT of doors for us. Then all the wacky synthos 
happened and the HSAs were sketchy at best which turned everything upside down. Now days its pretty much a case by case decision however I have always found it best to master as many ink systems/techniques as possible so that we can provide the best possible solution.
Always remember.....screenprinting is easy!!!!!!!

Rockers:
We would use a discharge underbase and then print a waterbase white (HSA) through a 255-35 mesh.

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