18 x 20 Pre-Coated 155 Mesh Screen

Screen Features:

• Premium Aluminum Frames manufactured from 6063T5 aluminum.
• Watertight welded aluminum frame.
• Edges are smooth for easy handling.
• Premium quality 100% polyester monofilament mesh.
• Each frame has a mesh count tag / label for easy identification.

Mesh Count Guidelines:

• General Tip: Lower Mesh = More ink, less detail - Higher Mesh = More detail, less ink
• 24-90 Mesh - Most commonly used for thick specialty inks, such as glitter, puff, etc.
• 110 Mesh - Most commonly used for white ink.
• 155 Mesh - Most commonly used for black ink.
• 200 Mesh - Most commonly used for high detail artwork. Good for solvent and water based inks. Ink may need to be reduced/thinned.
• 230-305 Mesh - Most commonly used for super fine detail artwork, half tones, CMYK process printing, as well as solvent and water base inks.

Coated Screens:  Not sure how to coat your screen with emulsion or just don’t want to mess with it? No worries, just get your screen pre-coated with emulsion and shipped directly to your door. Our pre-coated screens ship in light safe bags, so you receive them ready to expose. Be sure to open and store your pre-coated screens in a light safe environment, to avoid premature exposure. All our pre-coated and exposed screens come coated with our Xenon QXL emulsion, which is perfect for printing with plastisol and waterbased inks. If your using this emulsion for the first time, we highly recommend getting 1 extra screen, to start with an exposure test.  By request, we can also coat your screen with any other emulsion we carry, so if you’re printing with discharge, solvent, uv inks, just let us know which emulsion you prefer. Coated screens ship out in 1-2 business days and are nonreturnable.

Coated & Exposed Screens:  Do you just want to print? Take the headache out of the screen printing process and get your screens pre-exposed and shipped directly to your door. Investing in exposure equipment and learning the exposure process is a hurdle that takes down many new screen printers, so let us expose your screens, and you handle the printing! All our pre-coated and exposed screens come coated with our Xenon QXL emulsion, which is perfect for printing with plastisol and water based inks. By request, we can also coat your screen with any other emulsion we carry, so if you’re printing with discharge, solvent, uv inks, just let us know which emulsion you prefer. Coated and exposed screens ship out in 1-2 business days and are nonreturnable.

Get your exposed screen in 3 simple steps:
1) Choose the exposure option and upload your artwork.
2) Add to cart.
3) Checkout.

*Please refer to our artwork requirements and FAQ before uploading your artwork. Artwork that does not meet our requirements is subject to a $50/hour artwork fee or cancellation of your order.

Screen size and image area guidelines:

• 18x20 screens – 10”x12” image area
• 20x24 screens – 12”x16” image area
• 23x31 screens – 15”x23” image area