![]() 120T (305 US) is great for finer detail and printing on fine quality paper and card with fine detail. It leaves a thin but clean layer of ink on your underbase. An ideal mesh count for halftone prints and CMYK printing.ĩ0T is the perfect top layer mesh count. Good for thinner inks on delicate fabrics like silk. 90T (230 US) Our favourite mesh count for high detail fabric and paper printing. It is also great for printing on paper, card and other substrates. 77T (196 US) is great for finer detail, lightweight textiles such as fine cotton. A good alternative to 43T mesh if you use one screen for different prints. 55T (140 US) is great for screen printing on T Shirts, Hoodies with a little more detail. It can leave a nice deposit of base layer for you to print your colour on the top. Its is still perfect for paper prints as long as the design is not to detailed.Ĥ3T is ideal for printing underbase layers. 43T (110 US) This is without doubt the most commonly used mesh, it is ideal for printing text and blockier designs on T Shirts, Hoodys etc as well as other textiles. Can also be used for some specialist inks. It will lay down heavy deposits of ink on to fabric but doesn't always give the best results on fabric. 32T (80 US) is what we consider quite a low mesh count. Here is our guide to Which Mesh Count you should be using and some substrates is right for. Our Hunt The Moon screen printing mesh is super high quality, monofilament polyester mesh that's durable and a pleasure to print with. See the little conversion chart below, they aren't all going to be spot on, but we've worked with the screen printing mesh that we stock. The numbers tend to be higher for these mesh counts and at Hunt the Moon we don't really use them. US Mesh Measurement - This is done by how many Threads per inch, not the size of the holes. UK T Measurement - This is how many Threads per centimetre, not the size of the holes. We use the UK mesh count for all of our wooden screen printing frames and our aluminium screen printing frames. ![]() To understand what's best and to make the right choice for what mesh count to use, the first thing we need to know is the way in which you measure mesh count. There are lots of choices but for most jobs there are a few common mesh counts everyone uses. Screens come with different mesh counts for different printing needs. So depending on the level of detail in a design and the thickness of ink used, an appropriate mesh count would be needed. This is important to note as the higher the mesh count, the finer the holes are in the screen - which means less ink is able to pass through, perfect for, you guessed it, finer detailed designs. For example, a 42 mesh screen would have 42 threads crossing per square inch. Simply put, mesh count is a measure of how many threads of polyester cross each other per square inch of the screen.
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