28~90 mesh: Mainly used for glitter inks, due to the bigger hole size, this mesh will print a very high volume of ink, having a thick coat of emulsion making it difficult to expose.
85 mesh: Mainly used for athletic printing, opaque ink deposits, thick puff ink, and some shimmer inks. Similar with 28~90 mesh, this mesh will print a very high volume of ink and have a thick coat of emulsion making it difficult to expose.
110 mesh: Mainly used for heavy coverage on dark shirts, solid under base prints, puff, metallic, some shimmer inks, and for certain transfer printing. It is a great mesh count for high opacity inks on any dark garments.
155~160 mesh: Most common type, mainly for general printing on white T-shirts & under basing on dark shirts, prints on nylon jackets, thinner silver shimmer inks. Many thinner plastisol inks will print well with this mesh count.
195 mesh: Mainly used for printing on light colored T-shirts with fine detail, line work or halftones of around 35 LPI.
230 mesh: Mainly used for printing on light colored T-shirts with fine detail, line work or halftones of around 35 LPI.
305~355 mesh: Mainly used for process color on light shirts, or for overprinting a halftone on a white under base on dark shirts. You should be able to pull of halftones of up to 65 LPI but a 55 LPI is most common.
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