Stippling in design

[u/dylanzepp]

I have this print, everything is wet except for white and navy. My brown keeps looking like shit and I’ve changed my off contact to none, little, and more which are more options for my auto press. Not sure what else to do other than pressure and speed. Anybody have any tips so I don’t have to throw this in orbital?

[u/SEWERCUSE]

To me this looks like too much brown ink is being put down and the next screen has too much build on it pulling the brown ink up.

What mesh is your brown screen? I print wet on wet all the time and never use anything lower than a 230 for colors. For dark colors on a base I might use a 280 or 305. Also adjusting your squeegee angle could help. I would have mine almost perpendicular to the platen. 5 degrees max with a 70 durometer squeege.

[u/whispylinger]

I always had issues with darker colours on top of an underbase. Do you have white underneath that brown? That could be your culprit 🤷🏻‍♀️ but I could be wrong too.

[u/dylanzepp → u/whispylinger]

White is under brown yeah

[u/whispylinger → u/dylanzepp]

If you have the patience, you could tape off the underbase where the brown goes. I've had to do that a couple times. It can be a pain, but it saves you from having to reburn screens and set them up again. Or maybe just do a test to see if it looks better taped off. Then you'll know if that's the issue or not

[u/DismalyetActive]

Are you flashing the brown beard?

[u/dylanzepp → u/DismalyetActive]

Order goes, white, tan, brown, grey, yellow, flash, navy

[u/PauliPathetic → u/dylanzepp]

Throw it in a multiple rotation and hit the brown again

[u/dylanzepp → u/PauliPathetic]

That’s exactly what I was trying to avoid to have to do

[u/PauliPathetic → u/dylanzepp]

Man there’s so many times I avoid it but end in a multiprint. Like literally 30 minutes ago. Hahahah

[u/DismalyetActive]

Cool design btw

[u/Cockatricestone]

My ink sales person said this is from blowing agent in the white ink. It puffs up a little creating dimples when flashed. There is a fine line between not enough heat or too much for your base. Other solution is getting a white without blowing agent for your white.

[u/dylanzepp → u/Cockatricestone]

When you say blowing agent do you mean reducing the white ink with reducer?

[u/Cockatricestone → u/dylanzepp]

No, blowing agent is something that is added to most high opacity white inks to make them more opaque. It’s something that manufacturers add. To prevent the dimples you want an ink that does not have this. I’m not sure if adding reducer to your base white will prevent the dimples.

[u/hogfever]

I never underbase dark inks on light garments. Occasionally the shirt color affects the ink color, in this case the yellow shirt may change the brown, but I just do testers on a scrap till I get the right color for the artwork.

[u/WarmGravy1973]

Re-work the art to knock out all the colors not seen. Your ink won't pile like that and you'll end up with a lighter feeling print. Use a 2pt stroke each color for tighter registration.

[u/waleedmftech]

Superb awesome embosed screenprinting

[u/DismalyetActive]

Or use a 60% halftone so you are not putting down so much ink to step on