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screen printing => Ink and Chemicals => Topic started by: Croft on July 03, 2018, 12:13:57 PM
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Hi I'm having a heck of a time printing yellow shimmer over a white base , not much shimmer is coming through a 93 mesh, I'm about to try an 80 mesh ( my lowest) but to me the shimmer seems to be separating from the curable reducer base.
Any tips would be appreciated
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When looking at their offerings I only see available Gold Shimmer and Yellow Sparkle.
Could it be that you actually have the yellow sparkle? which is a large flake glitter-type product that requires a much coarser mesh (25-40)
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yes yellow sparkle
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There you go! The screen you want to use looks like what you have on your windows!
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The "metallics" go up progressively in particle size, with their Liquid Gold and Silver passing through mesh as fine as 230, to the shimmers which recommend 86-110, to glitters with a mesh range of 25-38, and the sparkle, which is pretty much limited to 25
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Your going to need a 25 mesh count, did some with a silver glitter a few months back, and my advice to you is to buy a new 25 mesh frame, mesh and all. I thought I was being smart buy ordering just the mesh and trying to use my roller frames man what a pain trying to get that thick mesh locked in.
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And be prepared to be reminded of running glitters and sparkles for weeks and weeks. :o
The gift that keeps on giving!
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And don?t try and coat that 25 like you normally do.
Do a 1x1 coat, let it dry then do a face coat. The mesh is so open that most thin emulsions won?t even bridge as the emulsion sags and falls out of the screen making quite the mess.