Mesh Counts and Your Needs
30 and 40
Best used with glitter inks or anything that needs and open mesh.
60 and 74
Best used with lighter glitter inks and shimmer inks.
86
Best used with shimmer inks, thick high density layers and foils.
110
Best used with white inks as well as other thicker inks. This mesh count provides less detail and is best used for spot coloring and thick layers.
125
This is one of the most common mesh counts in the industry. Best used with white inks, thicker inks and high viscosity inks.
140 and 160
Used for general purpose textile printing. These mesh counts provide moderate detail while working with thinner inks.
180 and 195
Used when thinner layers and more detail than 140 and 160 is needed.
230, 255 and 280
Used for high end fine detail where thicker lines than 305 are needed.
305
Used for extremely high detail with thin layers of ink where halftones are used. Works great for process prints.
330, 350, 380 and 420
Used for graphic printing with very high detail on signs, banners and CDs. Good for UV printing where higher mesh counts allow automatic printers to regulate the amount of ink that passes through.